Vaio VGN-AR840e - Phoenix R2090J8 - 02/26/2008

[nesnfsn]

Ahmed:

This thread is showing a 5th page, and I am hoping that you had posted the newly modded BIOS rom. However, everytime I click on Page 5, I get an error message that the page can't be found.

I hope that this posting will fix that, and I will be able to find your posting with the revised modded BIOS rom.

Richard

[AHMED HOSSAM]

i have moved the options inside the INTEGRATED DEVICE MENU to the ADVANCED tab .

also i linked the cpu sub-menu directly to the cpu options and deleted the merom sub-menu .

flash this bios and i think this will unlock all menus .


  MODIFIED MENUS.rar (Size: 1.06 MB / Downloads: 19)

[nesnfsn]

i have moved the options inside the INTEGRATED DEVICE MENU to the ADVANCED tab .

also i linked the cpu sub-menu directly to the cpu options and deleted the merom sub-menu .

flash this bios and i think this will unlock all menus .

Thanks, will get back to you. Thank you very much indeed.

Richard

[AHMED HOSSAM]

you are welcome

i`m waiting your reply after flashing this bios.

[nesnfsn]

you are welcome

i`m waiting your reply after flashing this bios.

Ahmed - Thank you for all of your work, efforts, skill, experience, and indeed patience. I am here, and the laptop is not bricked. Hardware virtualization available, which will help with VMware in Linux. Many more option settings available in the BIOS now. RAID still missing options, and I am unclear where AHCI settings are that you had mentioned. Did you see some setting that you did not include?

Once again, thank you for everything.

Regards and appreciation,

Richard

[AHMED HOSSAM]

you are welcome RICHARD

here under the ADVANCED tab ( this tab should have been unlocked ) you can see these menus .




and inside the ICH SATA CONTROL menu you can find the AHCI OPTIONS



tell me if you can`t see any of these menus but i guess they are all unlocked .

[nesnfsn]

you are welcome RICHARD

here under the ADVANCED tab ( this tab should have been unlocked ) you can see these menus .

and inside the ICH SATA CONTROL menu you can find the AHCI OPTIONS



tell me if you can`t see any of these menus but i guess they are all unlocked .

Can you explain how I could do screen grabs to share all of my BIOS' settings screens with you? Might help you understand what I have and not received access to.

Thanks again,

Richard

[AHMED HOSSAM]

just capture the screen using any camera..............i`m using an emulation program no more.
but the emulation shows all menus that should appear and don`t give attention to any routine which will hide the option so that i can`t knew if the options still hidden in your bios.

do you see the last options in the pics !!

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upload some pics for the unlocked menus if you can please

[nesnfsn]

Not good with cell phone camera, but will attach here. Also, do not know how many I can attach, but took pictures of all BIOS screens.

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Another set of BIOS pictures.

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More pictures

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Final set.

UPDATE: Ahmed, no AHCI, no RAID Option Controls (Mirror Striped, RAID0, RAID1, etc. - Had that before).

[AHMED HOSSAM]

thanks for these pics
the only issue now is that that the option called AHCI CONFIGURATION is locked inside the sata sub-menu .

the next modified bios would be the final modification as i knew all hidden options now
i will make it now and upload it here , it will include the AHCI option and 2 other options for sata .

just wait 15 minutes

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no options for RAID 0 , 1 ......etc .
it`s just options like
SATA RAID ENABLE , RAID CONFIGURATION .
and other options for AHCI .

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HERE IS THE BIOS WITH UNLOCKED THE AHCI OPTION AND ANOTHER OPTION FOR SATA ( don`t remember it`s name ) AND UNLOCKED ABOUT 4 OPTIONS INSIDE WORK AROUND MENU .


  SONY VAIO AR-840 UNLOCKED BIOS.rar (Size: 1.06 MB / Downloads: 27)

I`M WAITING YOUR QUICK REPLY AFTER FLASHING AS I WANT TO SLEEP IT`S 5 : 20 AM HERE