Dell Inspiron 530 / 530s v1.0.2 Experimental Unlocking & Upgrading Project

[1234s282]

Did you flash from dos or by using the Winflash utility?

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[actionpie420]

i flashed from dos using awdflash. in awdflash i flashed bios1.bin it said incorect serial number and refused to flash.

[TheWiz]

/f cmd parameter will force the flash, but I don't reccommend this because it shouldn't be an incorrect serial number if you have the correct motherboard. Please post a CPUID screenshot.

[actionpie420]

the board is identified as ORY007 but on the board it also says G33M02 its been my understanding that there one in the same the attachment is mostly all my information.

[1234s282]

As thewiz said , you can use the /f parameter to override the error but it shouldnt say that!

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[actionpie420]

i went looking for this bios v1.0.2 you started with on dells website and what i found was that its for inspiron 530b. i also got a copy (v1.0.16) of my current bios bin file. its twice the size but clearly the same structure only my bios does not have the hidden fox central control tab. if we find out that my computer can work with v1.0.2 ill be happy to try and flash the bios anyway. iv been reeding and working with modbin annd by now i think i understand alot better how some of this works. i even modded my other computers bios and flashed it sucessfully today.

[Dansolo]

New development for the 530 1.0.18 BIOS... experimental, though. I unlocked some options with modbin6, which corrupted the BIOS, so I extracted the _en_code.bin and _item.bin only and put them into a working version. I bolded that for the people that were talking about using modbin6. Do not mess with it if you're not prepared for the possibility of corruption and thus having to get around it like I did here. I don't know if the overclocking options will work but they should be there now, though there are only a couple of things unlike the 1.0.2...

I took the latest Intel AHCI ROM that I have, 1.20E.0027 and changed the device ID to correspond to the original ISA Phoenix AHCI BIOS device ID and fixed the checksum. I also enabled the AHCI option. I do not know if this will work due to changing from Phoenix to Intel AHCI.

RAID 8.7.0 ICH9 is in there and I know it works from a previous mod that I did that did not contain an AHCI ROM. It worked without needing AHCI. It is possible that adding a different AHCI version to this ROM will break RAID as well if it tries to load and fails.

I updated the VGA BIOS from 1471 to 1653 and the Intel LAN PXE ROM from 1.2.50 to 1.3.63.

I was going to update the CPU microcode but CBROM crashes when touching that. (It also corrupts the BIOS... good thing I made a backup before I tried this.)

This is EXPERIMENTAL. Try at your own risk! And make sure you have the appropriate system for it because there seems to be different revisions or something.

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Aaaand here's one for 1.0.2... Took the ROM from the original post and:

-Enabled more options, nothing too special, and grabbed _item.bin and _en_code.bin with CBROM, again, to keep the BIOS out of modbin6's corrupting habits.

-VGA BIOS 1471 -> 1533 -> 1653 (found this 12/30, so I updated the file again)

-Realtek PXE 2.37

-RAID 8.7 ICH9. Don't know if it'll work.

-Same AHCI trick with 1.20E.0027. Don't know if it'll work. I don't even know if this ROM expects the same AHCI device ID, and would guess that it does NOT, so this part is probably even less likely to work here. Though a missing AHCI BIOS wouldn't brick a computer (hasn't yet in my experience, anyway). EDIT: I decided to just keep the same device ID but also add another AHCI ROM with the ICH9 device ID of 2923, so hopefully one of the two will work. File was updated a few minutes after I put the first one up.


Same caveats from the last post for 1.0.18. This is experimental! I do not own this computer and cannot test it!

[1234s282]

Nice Work Dansolo

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[Dansolo]

Nice Work Dansolo

Thanks, but now let's see if anyone's willing to test it/them.

[Dansolo]

Updated the files again with VGA BIOS 1653 which I pulled from the BIOS for MSI G31TM-P35. The files a couple posts back are updated and here's the option ROM itself (meaning, users, do not try to flash this file as it's not a BIOS for your motherboard)