08-02-2022, 08:39 PM
Hi All,
First I have been a long time lurker of this website, I'm fairly certain that the modded bios and hardware hack for my old TX97 motherboard came from here. Many Kudos!
To the point, I have an old laptop kicking around that I want to give a new lease on life to as my pfsense/openwrt router (undecided as to which to use, although the main router and other router configured as an AP both run OpenWRT).
The laptop has a bios package of sp59790.exe (apparently it's a good thing that it does not start with sp6...).
What I have tried/accomplished so far:
decompressed the package to my computer giving me:
0169BF48.bin
01697F48.bin
01699F48.bin
and stuff...
I tried EZH20, the program refused to open any of the bin files.
UBU also didn't work - face palm, realized that it's a non uefi bios, so of course.
After reading multiple posts/threads learned of the existence of phoenixtool... Eventually found a nice .ru site that had phoenixtool273 and a replacement hewprsa.exe specifically meant for Insyde bioses. Downloaded both and ran phoenixtool273 on the 3 bin files.
According to the documentation I now have 0169BF48.bin, 01697F48.bin, 01699F48.bin files that have been unlocked and had their slic cracked... (side note: with or without the "special" hewprsa.exe phoenixtool completes succesfully and I don't see a difference between the log files)
Conclusion:
Except what I need is the ability to put a mini pcie to pcie adapter in the Wifi card slot (I'd like to use a dual port gigabit NIC with it), so please! could someone remove the hardware white lists from the included bios? So that I can continue with my project or tell me which module(s) to nuke/disable in the bios files?
I know the white lists would currently prevent both the adapter and the NIC from working. So they definitely need to go.
Thank you for your help!
Looking over the laptop battery compartment found a revision id of 1699 - 130, so the only bin file I would need modded is 01699F48.bin, so I've added the unmodded and modded bin files for that revision. For those wondering what the differences are between the hacked and non hacked bios, also included are the decoded (dec) bin files.
First I have been a long time lurker of this website, I'm fairly certain that the modded bios and hardware hack for my old TX97 motherboard came from here. Many Kudos!
To the point, I have an old laptop kicking around that I want to give a new lease on life to as my pfsense/openwrt router (undecided as to which to use, although the main router and other router configured as an AP both run OpenWRT).
The laptop has a bios package of sp59790.exe (apparently it's a good thing that it does not start with sp6...).
What I have tried/accomplished so far:
decompressed the package to my computer giving me:
0169BF48.bin
01697F48.bin
01699F48.bin
and stuff...
I tried EZH20, the program refused to open any of the bin files.
UBU also didn't work - face palm, realized that it's a non uefi bios, so of course.
After reading multiple posts/threads learned of the existence of phoenixtool... Eventually found a nice .ru site that had phoenixtool273 and a replacement hewprsa.exe specifically meant for Insyde bioses. Downloaded both and ran phoenixtool273 on the 3 bin files.
According to the documentation I now have 0169BF48.bin, 01697F48.bin, 01699F48.bin files that have been unlocked and had their slic cracked... (side note: with or without the "special" hewprsa.exe phoenixtool completes succesfully and I don't see a difference between the log files)
Conclusion:
Except what I need is the ability to put a mini pcie to pcie adapter in the Wifi card slot (I'd like to use a dual port gigabit NIC with it), so please! could someone remove the hardware white lists from the included bios? So that I can continue with my project or tell me which module(s) to nuke/disable in the bios files?
I know the white lists would currently prevent both the adapter and the NIC from working. So they definitely need to go.
Thank you for your help!
Looking over the laptop battery compartment found a revision id of 1699 - 130, so the only bin file I would need modded is 01699F48.bin, so I've added the unmodded and modded bin files for that revision. For those wondering what the differences are between the hacked and non hacked bios, also included are the decoded (dec) bin files.