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I'm happy that you could not flash it. If you had managed, your notebook might very well have died (the different chipsets mean the BIOSes are probably mutually exclusive). If you feel like it, I've read (in Intel's datasheet) that the pin concerned with speedstep is internally pulled high (meaning:...

Flashing a GF BIOS in a GC notebook is probably a very bad idea (tm). I don't know whether there is a newer BIOS version that could solve the problem as it solved mine. The ftp site of hp is a little bit difficult to dig. I've found the answer in a forum. I've not looked at the history of your noteb...

Upgrade to GF.M1.14: it solves the problem (I suspect the PIII-M was not recognized by the BIOS in the first place). The procedure is straightforward, the English looks really strange to me (but much less than the French and the Italian !); don't be afraid: at the end of the procedure the notebooks ...

I'm also trying to get SpeedStep to work on my XE3L. I've also found bios version GF.M1.14 that was hidden from view (I did not test it), and the famous brand.exe (in the middle of the page). Analyzing the floppy of brand.exe, I can see there is a 256 bytes EEPROM that contains (at byte offset 0x91=...

Phoenix BIOS Editor does not work for me, but I found that PhoenixDeco managed to decompress it. I've not tried anything besides yet.

SurJector