SONY MBX-218

BIOS .rar 883 KB Shared

BIOS dump for a Sony VAIO laptop with mainboard MBX-218, compressed in an 883 KB RAR file. No model, revision or version appears in the name, so match the MBX code and part number printed on the board itself. Sony uses MBX numbers to identify VAIO motherboards, and one MBX code can cover several retail models. A technician writes such an image to the SPI BIOS chip with a hardware programmer after a failed update or corruption, always after backing up the original chip and checking the image size against the flash capacity.

The button opens the matching file on RM Schematics, or a source page if it is not catalogued there yet. The original attachment is from @biosarchive. Enginerys does not host this file.

How to open a .rar file

Compressed archive — the usual wrapper for a schematic + boardview pair or a BIOS + EC set.

7-ZipWinRARThe Unarchiver (macOS)

More about .rar files

Back up your own chip before writing any dump, and match the full board number and revision. Flashing guide →

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