Insyde BIOS modding (dv4,dv5,dv6,dv7 at least)

[duh1]

no prob, you should try using the vtenable.py I attached to my last post on your fd file, make sure you get the same results

it should work fine, and produce the same file

oh yeahhhhh yesssssss! "IT DOESN'T WORK", forget enable the advanced menu, it didnt even enable the virtualization. i was more worried about virtualization than advanced menu. and secondly, the setup.txt showed my laptop as v3000, WAQQQQQ and it has its UUID and GUID and also laptop serial number. which means its a generic one and not meant to work for all bios.
so what did i learn from this?
#1. LEARN TO WRITE CODES IN PYTHON ALSO, ELSE IN DEEPEST TROUBLE.
#2. try to understand the coding and also RTFM before going totally off the shelves psycho nuts.
#3. generics always don't work on specific things.
#4. to get things done? Best is to do it yourself, either don't do it, else tell a kid not to do it.
#5. Necessity is the "MOTHER" of invention!
#6. if something i cant do on my own? ask others! (thank you forum for your brilliant support, you also tried along with me, insane mother insyde is all messed up and HP also.)
#7. dont waste full day doing impossible i.e. divide by 0, there are infinite possibilities or else.
#8 MOST IMP: DESPERATE SITUATION DESPERATE MEASURES ( i need to learn python now and fix this crappy hanged up issue).

thanks anyway team, your support is brilliant. and in this process i had to wipe away all the tattoo on the bios like "Apple Macintosh MacBook MacBookPro MacBookLite Notebook PC" and machine serial # "-#-LOL" and UUID "66655566644466633366622266611166" and GUID "-LOL--LOL" and i also activated windows vista in the menu. now i need to disable windows vista and redo this thing again. phew.
thanks, i must be a moron, 3 full weekends wasted.
so next try after i learn python and rtfm intel pdf's and then edit those files i got from this forum and oh yeah dd /dev/sda!
here are the screenshots of virtual box failing miserably and i did enable the intel-vt in the bios, but this bastid wont accept it.
system-processor.png
system-mobo.png
system-accleration.png
bad-luck.png
will post updates in a week. have fun everyone and thanks a lot for all the trouble you had to undergo both in reading and also understanding these trash posts and helping me with issues.
in a week!
-paul

[cavrac]

oh yeahhhhh yesssssss! "IT DOESN'T WORK",

Did you try the FD file I gave you on rapid share?
Did you go into the BIOS and load setup defaults?, because if you do that, you will wipe out the enable VT setting.
At least you got further than before, the vtenable.py script ran, finished without error and created a new bios file right?
You did try the script yourself right?
After you flashed the new BIOS, did you reboot, dump the BIOS again, and compare it to the one you just flashed to make sure the settings did not change.
Is this bios your using the latest available?
Maybe the BIOS does not have the code for VT just because there is VSS setting for it, does not mean the code is there.
Does the chipset on your motherboard support VT?

Sorry I could not help more, here is a link to the originator of these scripts

Abort, Retry, Hack? Blog Archive Enabling Intel VT on the Aspire 8930G (and other InsydeH2O-based laptops)

[TylerC]

Hi. Im a computer technician and someone brought me a laptop, that it's supposed to have a rotten bios. I wonder if there is a chance that I can get an extracted bios for a hot flash. I cant use the insyde bios rom because they are for reprograming and useless for a hotflash (as the user 0.0 had said once in fact). The laptop is a DV5 with a board 3600 or 3603.

Thanks in advance.

[scottd]

Hi. Im a computer technician and someone brought me a laptop, that it's supposed to have a rotten bios. I wonder if there is a chance that I can get an extracted bios for a hot flash. I cant use the insyde bios rom because they are for reprograming and useless for a hotflash (as the user 0.0 had said once in fact). The laptop is a DV5 with a board 3600 or 3603.

Thanks in advance.

Just download it from hp.com. For example, sp49543.exe for Pavillion DV4 F.18 BIOS. Open with 7-zip to get the 2MB flash image.

[Dufus]

I take it you have tried the Insyde BIOS recovery and it doesn't work. Are you confident hotflashing will work, ie the chip wont require removal? If you are able to hotflash then you should be able to read the chip beforehand and try to recover the machines specific information / serial numbers, hopefully they are still intact. Otherwise you will probably have to make some up. Either way probably a good idea to dump the contents of the chip before any erasing / programming.

[User Retired 2]

If you are able to hotflash then you should be able to read the chip beforehand and try to recover the machines specific information / serial numbers, hopefully they are still intact. Otherwise you will probably have to make some up. Either way probably a good idea to dump the contents of the chip before any erasing / programming.

Just flash the bios image as provided by HP, then use the HP DMIFIT utility to reprogram DMI with the serial/model, etc.

[pabloa2]

I am new to these forums and I would like to thank all who did the preliminary work especially the time taken to write the guides. They are concise and to the point and they work. Right now I am testing various settings. I just booted bios with Gfx Low Power Mode disabled and it boots fine... Will be reporting my findings. HPG60-458DX, Intel T4200, ICH9 SB, GL40 NB, 800 MHZ ddr2 Kinston Valuram. ICS9LPRS355BKL Pin Modded for FSB overclock.

[Porgos]

Hey guys, I didn't see anyone using a dv6t 1100 CTO here, and I have a very specific problem with mine. My processor NEVER reaches it's maximum state, as I can see from both CPU-Z and Resource Monitor. I have an Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 and using the Dolphin emulator my multiplier goes from 6 to 8 (1200 to 1600Mhz) but never 11 (2200MHz), although I can clearly remember my processor reaching the 2200MHz in many cases in the past. I have already played around with power profiles in Windows (7 Ultimate x64) but to no avail. It's clearly a BIOS issue, and I observed it since my laptop went to an HP service center and was flashed, (God knows with what BIOS) and the heatsink was refitted.

If anyone has an insight on this problem, maybe unlock BIOS settings for power management, or something more obvious, please let me know. Thanks!

[TylerC]

I should've explained more.

I already flashed the the bios (of course it needed to be extracted) with the bios of the HP, but the HP bios is around 1 megabyte, and the information I extracted from the rom was only 128kilobytes. And of course, it didnt work out. In fact, even having premodified the HP programing bios (with the EZH20 utility), the data is way to far different from the data inside the rom.

[User Retired 2]

I should've explained more.

I already flashed the the bios (of course it needed to be extracted) with the bios of the HP, but the HP bios is around 1 megabyte, and the information I extracted from the rom was only 128kilobytes. And of course, it didnt work out. In fact, even having premodified the HP programing bios (with the EZH20 utility), the data is way to far different from the data inside the rom.

The vbios alone is 64kb and there's no way the additional bios functionality would fit in another 64kb.

Are you sure you removed the BIOS chip? There are two flash eeproms on modern systems.. the keyboard controller and the bios. Often the keyboard controller is 128kb or 256kb. A HP BIOS tends to be, as you higlight, 1GB/2GB or even 4GB, so the bios chip will be a 8/16 or 32MBit chip.