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There is a new BIOS. Can now be able to unlocked?
http://mobilesupport.lenovo.com/us/en/pr...s/DS100450

There is a new BIOS. Can now be able to unlocked?
http://mobilesupport.lenovo.com/us/en/pr...s/DS100450

(05-31-2014, 11:34 AM)VSG Wrote: [ -> ]There is a new BIOS. Can now be able to unlocked?
http://mobilesupport.lenovo.com/us/en/pr...s/DS100450

I never thought I would be thankful they'd find a bug in the BIOS, but this is reason.

This should be interesting. I still haven't tried a hw programmer on this thing (been too busy with other projects), and now this changes the strategy quite a bit...

I would imagine it is a good idea to wait on this update until we can determine if it can be hacked?

I'm willing to start looking at the tools needed to make this happen...

(06-05-2014, 05:56 PM)RehabMan Wrote: [ -> ]I'm willing to start looking at the tools needed to make this happen...

I've never done this before, but here are some links I found!

http://www.endeer.cz/bios.tools/bios.html
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads...ts/page222
http://www.sbbala.com/DellWWAN/Whitelist.htm
http://www.mediafire.com/download/csey87...torial.pdf

Maybe we should try this PhnxPatch. Can anyone offer guidance? I'm going to go ahead and at least confirm that I can flash the new BIOS file (unmodified) using Crisis Recovery Mode.

(06-09-2014, 03:08 PM)kylec Wrote: [ -> ]...
Maybe we should try this PhnxPatch.
...

This is Insyde BIOS, not Phoenix... Are they somehow related? Maybe so... I've got a lot of reading to do!

(06-09-2014, 05:24 PM)RehabMan Wrote: [ -> ]This is Insyde BIOS, not Phoenix... Are they somehow related? Maybe so... I've got a lot of reading to do!

I didn't even realize that! But yes, apparently they are related.

there's a discussion regarding the use of hardware flash programmer.
hope add more info for your works.
http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Le...5#pid72205

(06-05-2014, 05:56 PM)RehabMan Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-31-2014, 11:34 AM)VSG Wrote: [ -> ]There is a new BIOS. Can now be able to unlocked?
http://mobilesupport.lenovo.com/us/en/pr...s/DS100450

I never thought I would be thankful they'd find a bug in the BIOS, but this is reason.

This should be interesting. I still haven't tried a hw programmer on this thing (been too busy with other projects), and now this changes the strategy quite a bit...

I would imagine it is a good idea to wait on this update until we can determine if it can be hacked?

I'm willing to start looking at the tools needed to make this happen...

This is the best Tutorial i've found: http://donovan6000.blogspot.de/2013/06/i...lists.html

Who of you is in IA64-Assembler and can do this?

I also need a bios. To replace the network card

(06-10-2014, 05:56 AM)sebold Wrote: [ -> ]This is the best Tutorial i've found: http://donovan6000.blogspot.de/2013/06/i...lists.html

Who of you is in IA64-Assembler and can do this?

Yes, I've been reading Donavan's blog. I'm ok with x86 code, but need to become familiar with the tools. I hope to get started today.

BTW, if you run the BIOS updater, it doesn't even ask for confirmation. Just runs, reboots, flashes, and restarts. Also, no backup is made of the prior BIOS. The whole process is really quick. So... I have updated BIOS now. Of course, attempting to run a second time ... just informs that the same version BIOS is already installed and it aborts. Extracting the files reveals an .INI file for configuration where you can disable the version check, enable backups and other goodies.