IS THIS WORTH THE TROUBLE? Sony VGN-SZ18GP VAIO PhoenixBIOS R0096N0 full unlock

[Maxinator500]

Did not work.

Well then I just sacrifice the "Hard Disk Password" menu for that (options are preserved).
You may re-download the archive.

[kagari_15]

Maxinator500

There we are! It worked! Sony must have mutilated the BIOS to get to so much trouble to get there...

And I finally found the options of interest such as thermal control. Though at one point the HDD went missing and the debug menu once disappeared (error on my part...testing if the settings does work) but returned after returning to default settings...

Now that's sorted I can now squeeze out some funds to get this laptop to work. Much thanks! This is one for the records!

~kagari_15