Bios Mods -The Best BIOS Update and Modification Source

Hi, can anyone help me. I have Lenovo Flex 2 14" laptop and i want use another wlan card. I did read forums about early generation Flex bios questions, do i need also hardware programming (external programmer) or moded bios can be flashed normally by windows. Lenovo support link for bios update is here:
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products...s/DS101193
Do i need upload bios copy from laptop or moded version can be made from lenovo support site bios update ?
Laptop data:
Phoenix SecureCore Technology Setup
Bios version: A0CN28WW
KBC version: A0EC21WW
cpu: i3-4010U
4gb ram
intel hd graphics 1920x1080

Thanks in advance

(11-19-2014, 06:17 AM)striimer Wrote: [ -> ]Hi, can anyone help me. I have Lenovo Flex 2 14" laptop and i want use another wlan card. I did read forums about early generation Flex bios questions, do i need also hardware programming (external programmer) or moded bios can be flashed normally by windows. Lenovo support link for bios update is here:
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products...s/DS101193
Do i need upload bios copy from laptop or moded version can be made from lenovo support site bios update ?
Laptop data:
Phoenix SecureCore Technology Setup
Bios version: A0CN28WW
KBC version: A0EC21WW
cpu: i3-4010U
4gb ram
intel hd graphics 1920x1080

Thanks in advance

Hi friend,
use these tools run Them as Admin and upload here the results files :

http://rghost.net/58219938

http://rghost.net/53128665

To reply your questions We have to look your Eeprom Status, so need these results files !
Let me know
Regards

(11-19-2014, 11:15 AM)BDMaster Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-19-2014, 06:17 AM)striimer Wrote: [ -> ]Hi, can anyone help me. I have Lenovo Flex 2 14" laptop and i want use another wlan card. I did read forums about early generation Flex bios questions, do i need also hardware programming (external programmer) or moded bios can be flashed normally by windows. Lenovo support link for bios update is here:
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products...s/DS101193
Do i need upload bios copy from laptop or moded version can be made from lenovo support site bios update ?
Laptop data:
Phoenix SecureCore Technology Setup
Bios version: A0CN28WW
KBC version: A0EC21WW
cpu: i3-4010U
4gb ram
intel hd graphics 1920x1080

Thanks in advance

Hi friend,
use these tools run Them as Admin and upload here the results files :

http://rghost.net/58219938

http://rghost.net/53128665

To reply your questions We have to look your Eeprom Status, so need these results files !
Let me know
Regards

Thanks advising, backup_tools created "results" on to the desktop, file uploaded there:
http://rghost.net/59157005 name results_flex2
universal bios backup tool messaging Error "Can not identify BIOS", if i click OK, then i have only working buttons About and Exit, other buttons Read and Backup are grey....
Of course running programs as administrator....
I'm running windows 8.1 x64, maybe there is tools version question ?
Right now i have changed the original wireless card to blacklisted one and it's disabled in bios, because if i enable that one i will get message 104.
Do i need open laptop cover and change back the orignal whitelisted card for bios tools ? or it does not make any difference ?

Hi again. New try, new results. Obviously universal bios backup tool not running under the win8,
so i installed win7 on Flex 2 and tried again both tools, succeeded, back-up tool did the same (results .rar)
and universal bios backup tool did read the bios, backup saved as LENOVO-A0CN28WW.rom
Both files zipped as Flex2_backups.zip
Hope this helps now. Meanwhile did read the forums and understood that flashing tool version which passed is 9.5.14.1724 ....
also info.txt did not informed anything about protection 280, so can we hope that this Eeprom is just flashable ?
If it's possible, please remove wireless cards whitelist and if possible, setup submenus unhiding sounds also nice, if there will
be more parameters available for other OS. Thanks in advance and hope for help.
Backups uploaded:
http://rghost.net/59176750

Ok friend,
well done !!!

Now please post PCI /VEN for Original WiFi Card and New One too !!!
Let me know
Regards

Original whitelisted combo card is BCM43142 wifi + bluetooth
Wifi
PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4365&SUBSYS_062117AA&REV_01
Bluetooth harware id
USB\VID_105B&PID_E065&REV_0112
Needs to be exchanged for:
BCM943225HMB combo card wifi + bluetooth (right now blacklisted, if enabled in bios then 104 message will follow)
wifi
PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4357&SUBSYS_04DB14E4&REV_01
Bluetooth harware id
USB\VID_0489&PID_E030&REV_0689
Hope this helps

(11-21-2014, 08:48 AM)striimer Wrote: [ -> ]Original whitelisted combo card is BCM43142 wifi + bluetooth
Wifi
PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4365&SUBSYS_062117AA&REV_01
Bluetooth harware id
USB\VID_105B&PID_E065&REV_0112
Needs to be exchanged for:
BCM943225HMB combo card wifi + bluetooth (right now blacklisted, if enabled in bios then 104 message will follow)
wifi
PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4357&SUBSYS_04DB14E4&REV_01
Bluetooth harware id
USB\VID_0489&PID_E030&REV_0689
Hope this helps

Ok friend,
try this one :

http://rghost.net/59193613

Follow instructions to flash It from USB Dos env. included ReadMe.txt !

Let me know
Regards

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Thanks, i will try.
Will comeback soon.

Good work, replaced card works out of the box. No more comments needed.
Special thanks for professionals who can help users get more out from them hardware.

Hi BDMaster,
Glad to see that we can flash a modded Bios without external Hardware programmer on this
Lenovo flex 2 model.
You do a great job to help people :-)

We have a french topic lenovo flex 2 on this forum:
http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/Ordinateurs...4416_1.htm
And some Members want to replace the original wifi card.

Which would be nice, would be to remove the whitelist checking in Bios.
Like this, everyone could use the modded Bios without worrying about the model of the new wireless card.
(boring to change the PCI/VEN value for each person - Better have a generic modded bios for all members)

Model Chip W25Q64BV (same that striimer)
Last Bios for Lenovo Flex 2 (14" - 15" Haswell model):
http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobi...cn28ww.exe

Can you help us please to remove the Whitelist Checking in the Bios ? :-)
Many members will appreciate your help :-)
Thanks

PS: result fptw64 -i