This must be painful for you, svl7, but please know your help is appreciated immensely. I right-click and run as admin on the "backup.bat" file, a command window pops up briefly and then disappears. I'm assuming the BIOS backup is supposed to be overwriting the backup.bat file? I try to drag and drop the backup.bat to the fixer and get told "invalid input file. Make sure it's a proper dump of BIOS version v1.07". I open the flash tool and it says "Press any key to continue", and it goes through three successive screens of text before flashing this error: "Error 200: Invalid parameter value specified by user. Use -? option to see help", and then the program quits. I'm sorry for being so illiterate on this, but I'm ripping my hair out as much as anyone being so close to being able to "fix" my computer, and yet being so far away..!