[Request] Fujitsu T732 Whitelist removal

[docholliday]

Interesting...tapeing pin 51 got it to detect once, after the old modem was installed first, then changed out. It worked fine until the unit goes to sleep or powers down. It seems to put the radio into a airplane mode, and then on restart, doesn't re-detect the card. Since the card is off, it won't reload into windows until the BIOS approved card is installed once and restarted, then airplane mode is removed manually.

Somehow, it looks like the BIOS on power up must turn the modem on by default. Then, if it was offline in Windows, it will turn it back off after Windows starts. Without the BIOS to "kick" it on power up, the modem stays off and you're stuck until you can put an approved card in and take it offline in Windows, then power down and change cards!

That BIOS whitelist would really be handy!

[BDMaster]

Change the Sleep actions into Control Panel Energy saving !
Regards

[docholliday]

Change the Sleep actions into Control Panel Energy saving !
Regards

I don't use sleep...it's after doing a shutdown and restart (actually, any power cycle) that the card will disappear until I shutdown again, take out the non-WL card, put in the MC8355 and go through it all again.

[BDMaster]

I understand It !
You are saying about an Hot-Swap I think !
Look here :

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads...d-requests

Let me know
Regards

[docholliday]

I understand It !
You are saying about an Hot-Swap I think !
Look here :

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads...d-requests

Let me know
Regards

No, actually I wasn't talking about hot swapping the card. The problem is that the BIOS on this laptop has to initialize the card for it to be detected in Win10. Pin 51 makes it ignore the power down command, but the card puts itself into airplane mode instead. It needs the BIOS to perform initialization to make it power up before the boot process starts. The only way for it do that is to be whitelisted (or the whitelist process removed).

I put some Kapton on pin 51 of the MC8355 to see how it reacted. It works correctly as the bios allows it, so it get initialized out of airplane mode during POST. Windows then detects it and it works. If I shut down and change the cards out to the MC7700 (not allowed) with tape on pin 51, it'll work once. Once I shutdown/sleep/hibernate the computer, the MC7700 stops being recognized, no matter what I do until I put the allowed card back in and go through the whole process again.

[BDMaster]

Hi mate,
try this one :

http://rghost.net/6WVsrpKTL

Follow instructions included to flash from an USB Stick Fat32 Bootable
(use RUFUS to prepare), go into Bios Setup and Disable Secure Boot
and Set Legacy Bios then Boot from the USB Stick and execute flash.bat !
Let me know
Regards

[docholliday]

Hi mate,
try this one :

http://rghost.net/6WVsrpKTL

Follow instructions included to flash from an USB Stick Fat32 Bootable
(use RUFUS to prepare), go into Bios Setup and Disable Secure Boot
and Set Legacy Bios then Boot from the USB Stick and execute flash.bat !
Let me know
Regards

I've enabled CSM, disabled Secure Boot, cleared the BIOS password, enabled Flash Write. Pure FreeDOS on USB (also tried via MS-DOS 6.22).

Started flash and the response is (twice, even after prr executes):
PDR Region does not exist.
Error 28: Protected Range Registers are currently set by BIOS, preventing flash access. Please contact the target system BIOS vendor for an option to disable protected Range Registers.

I also tried to downgrade to 1.05 before flashing, but it won't allow downgrades, even with the /sd flag set.

[BDMaster]

Yes as Eeprom Chip is Write Protected !
So You can try using this DOS tool present into the different version but
I cannot preannince the result (It could Brick) :

http://rghost.net/6mhX4H2Lq

You posted as I asked It so remove Original file TUVV105.ROM and copy
into your Bios Mod file bios.bin and edit by TxtEditor the DosFlash.bat file
modifying this row :

DOSFLASH /sd /bbl /file TUVV105.rom

to

DOSFLASH /sd /bbl /file bios.bin

Then Prepare an USB Stick by RUFUS so DOS Bootable and Boot
from It, execute command DosFlash.bat and . . .
Let me know
Regards

P.S. Disable Secure Boot !

[docholliday]

Yes as Eeprom Chip is Write Protected !
So You can try using this DOS tool present into the different version but
I cannot preannince the result (It could Brick) :

http://rghost.net/6mhX4H2Lq

You posted as I asked It so remove Original file TUVV105.ROM and copy
into your Bios Mod file bios.bin and edit by TxtEditor the DosFlash.bat file
modifying this row :

DOSFLASH /sd /bbl /file TUVV105.rom

to

DOSFLASH /sd /bbl /file bios.bin

Then Prepare an USB Stick by RUFUS so DOS Bootable and Boot
from It, execute command DosFlash.bat and . . .
Let me know
Regards

P.S. Disable Secure Boot !

Using dosflash, I get ERROR 233 - Only secured capsule is allowed on a SecureFlash system.

If I try flashing in the 1.05 ROM, I get "Rollback flash is disabled in BIOS, build date time check was not skipped. ERROR 182 - BIOS image is equal or older than ROM".

I'm assuming the rollback flash is a hidden menu item in the bios. Any way to enable that and/or maybe advance the BIOS version in the ROM file to 1.08? It seems the reason the new bios isn't flashing is maybe that it's the same version (1.07) as the current bios and the -SD option isn't working because the bios option to allow flashing same/older bioses is set on but hidden?

Also, would the TPM setting change this any? I've disabled it, but not reset/cleared the TPM and it didn't make much difference. There is also an option under the Secure Boot Options for "Custom Signatures" (having to do the PK) and "Reset to Manufacturing Defaults" for the signatures. I've tried customized signatures and reset both, but the outcome is the same.

[BDMaster]

Ok Would You try to flash the .cap version modded ?
Here You go :

http://rghost.net/75qJc4dKw

Let me know
Regards