BIOS Updates forum

The card works beautifully when inserted and drivers are installed, but this is a tedious endeavor. Is there anyone here who may have happened to have made an update for this card already? If just have the error-104 and the card works if you put it in after bios bootup, but before OS load, then con...

Anyway, take a HEX editor and try this: Replace: 1.FEC100E41411433C10635513 2.FEC100021090948717685522 And this to fix the checksum: 1.0401611386805F22423C105B 2.0401109B831C5F22421C105B Good luck. Semi Semi - thank you for this info. I've done the changes, noting the two strings are both in the un...

@tweakertje, is it really soo complicated? If Yes, I'am Sorry. Ok I will it explain it once again, "only" for you! tweakertje/semi, I proceeded to edit the 2510P F.0E bios to add my HD4670, using the first whitelist entry as I posted a few posts back, and "boot wakeup LAN" string for CRC correction...

Semi - much thank yous for your reverse engineering prowess in providing HP/Compaq owners bios editting ability. I have looked at the decompressed 2510P bios and sure enough, the whitelist is there. Unusually, the 2510P whitelist starts in line 2510 for bios F.0E. Strange synchronisity. http://img19...

A possible alternative to semi's approach. I'd suggest folks do their own testing with the linked bios save/write on their own box to see if they can save the complete bios, use a hexeditor to edit the whitelist, then write it again.

Linux Flashrom + 2510P bios read/write.

I would like to get similar switch for my WiFi card that is blocked by NC6400's BIOS. Any tips for that? Switch workaround for BIOS that blocks bootup when sees incompatible wifi card It *might* be a bit trickier for pci-e than the USB WWAN, since it requires pci-e resources to be allocated by the ...

@kibkalo - *if* you can bootup the system, suspend, attach wifimax card, resume and Device Manager scan sees it, then consider adding a switch to bypass the bios check as shown here.

Trying to use N-speeds as well I bought an intel 5300, it doesn't work. I read comments about taping off pin 20 which might work, in what way is this pin counted? Strating with the small piece on the left and then on to the bigger part? or the other way around? Is it located on the bigger or the sm...

I tried to edit my HP 6710b F.15 (68DDU) ROM but unfortunately all without success. I am beginning to thing that it is not possible. I believe this solution posted here applies to pre Santa Rosa systems. I modded the 2510P bios but did not solve the whitelisting. What I did get was some parts of th...

i have an nc6400 with an WWan mini PCIex port. You are right it is only USB not PCIex because no wifi card works there. i have tested. No guarantee that it's not pci-e. I'm using a PE4L with external USB and pci-e and neither works in the WWAN slot. the WWAN card must be one or the other. The pci-e...

There's a tool called biosconfigutility.exe that comes with SSM (from HP's website). It can save the BIOS config, "biosconfigutility /getconfig:bios.txt", shows hidden options in the bios.txt output file such as "SATA Native Mode, then can load them again using "biosconfigutility /setconfig:bios.txt...

Confirmed workaround for HP mPCIe whitelisting on a 2510P Got my wifi to work after booting past the bios *without* it in the mPCIe slot. Originally I thought this was sufficient but since posting this I've found the bios does an additional check and halts the boot process with a 104-unsupported wi...

@Nando, this is a nice feature, what is the primary source of "your" HP BIOS RECOVERY Hot keys? Could you explain me please how it works? How could this be? There is no OS, but you can set a filepointer from a flash routine that is build in?! I cant understand it, sorry. But if this works, it would...

Moved here.

Thanks nando4, This method doesn't work on a nc8000. Think because it is a Compaq BIOS and not a Phoenix BIOS. Thanks, Krisztian Just a minor point. My 2510P and a colleagues 6910p both use Compaq bios and both can do the Emergency Bios recovery using this method. Can't confirm if nc8000 does/doesn...