[Removed] Lenovo ideapad Z565

[camiloml]

And will you be able to flash back the modded bios to your PC using phoenixtool???

[jericho]

Hi,

Sorry for delayed reply. I think I could flash the modded bios with InsydeFlash. Done it before, after modding the SLIC information and it works fine by now. My main concern is the advanced menu unlock, since I am planning to use an SSD drive which will need some fine tunning in bios to work flawlessly. But whitelist removal is also important - will try to upgrade the wifi radio with 5ghz intel 6250 minipci-x card.

[camiloml]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45117524/bios-mo...miloml.rom

Test and tell me

[jericho]

Hi,

Thank you for your efforts and time. Will try to flash the new bios later this week and will provide feeback.

BRGRDS

[jericho]

After a few beers I found the courage to flash the new bios on my Z565 and guess what: ITS WORKING ! )
Great work, man ! Apreciate it !
The advanced menu is now unlocked.
Still have to test it with the new Wifi, when it arrives but I am pretty sure it will work.
Will continute to experiment with the new bios settings in the weekend. For now there are at least 1000 things I would like to try to fine tune this laptop.

10x again, camiloml !

[camiloml]

lol, glad to know it haven't bricked your lappy Enjoy it

[camiloml]

Thanks for confirming,



Moved to unlocked /mod

[glx72]

Hello Camilo

I have a question for you.

When you mode the bios for "advanced menu". is there a way to find out when you analyzing it, what combination of key strokes the bios is expecting in order to open the advanced menu ? My assumption is that if the menu is there the programmer put some kind of a way to access it using combination of keys. you think there is a way to find out what are those by looking at it with the hex editor ? especially those insdy bios? Most companies admits for the existence of that but will not divulge the info.

Think a bout it

Thank you

glx72

[camiloml]

Hmmm maybe such a backdoor exists, i really haven't seen that code in any of the bios i modded, but true is also i haven't searched for it, it's normally easier for me just unhide the menus or items, but for sure would be a good solution if it were possible for hp's rsa signed bioses that semibricks laptops once modded.

[jhill1977]

I'm also interested in removing the whitelist from my Z565 laptop. I'm not as concerned with the advanced menu feature. Camiloml, can you re-mod the original BIOS to include JUST the whitelist removal?

Also, what tool should I be using to apply this modded BIOS. I tried using InsydeFlash on the existing modded BIOS and got the "This BIOS is not for your Notebook PC" error message. Any help is thoroughly appreciated.

Justin