Insyde hacking - New Vaio Z - Advanced menu in BIOS

[steberg]

I just did the BIOS hack on the new BIOS and it worked great. I now have all the advanced menus in BIOS R3031C3!! Thanks Profy X!

[Profy_X]

glad I could help you!

[kvnchg]

Just successfully got the advanced menu on my BIOS, and installed the latest Intel HD Graphics drivers and Nvidia drivers.

However, there is a problem. My boot time have lengthen significantly. I used to be able to boot in under 35 seconds. Now, it takes over 1 minute and 20 seconds!

I am convinced that it is due to this advanced menu hack because only the boot sequence when my screen is displaying the VAIO logo has lengthened (before the blinking cursor). That portion of the boot sequence now takes exactly 52 seconds (Longer than my old entire boot time)!

Anyone else having this problem? This is quite a bummer for me... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[steberg]

I have the new bios hacked and it boots much faster than before.

[kvnchg]

Just successfully got the advanced menu on my BIOS, and installed the latest Intel HD Graphics drivers and Nvidia drivers.

However, there is a problem. My boot time have lengthen significantly. I used to be able to boot in under 35 seconds. Now, it takes over 1 minute and 20 seconds!

I am convinced that it is due to this advanced menu hack because only the boot sequence when my screen is displaying the VAIO logo has lengthened (before the blinking cursor). That portion of the boot sequence now takes exactly 52 seconds (Longer than my old entire boot time)!

Anyone else having this problem? This is quite a bummer for me... Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I think I fixed the problem by disabling USB Legacy in the BIOS. Booting in the 30 to 40 seconds range again.

Are there anything else I can disable to speed up my boot time?

[cosmok]

So I did this for a new SE I picked up, changes made successfully in python - can see the difference in the roms when compared but no advanced menu. The dumps are here if anyone is interested in looking

[gr9zev]

LOL, IDK why everyone thinks I am so smart, people like pyr0, nando4 and and nautis are smart, I just mess around.

Howdy, have you (or anyone for that matter ) messed around with windows 8 power settings for vaio? Seems Battery Care is not yet supported, couldn't get it right after 5 clean installs (with Vaio Z VPCZ1 Clean Install)

[northox]

Any news regarding the VPCZ2190S ?

[paul3000h]

What you want to try is:

- Flash the new BIOS using the Sony tools
- Dump that BIOS to a usb drive
- Patch the BIOS with the existing tools, should work
- Flash the patched BIOS

Can't see why it wouldn't work...

I would like to move up to the latest bios but am unsure of the exact proceedure. I originally did the hack as my instructions here:

NEW INSTRUCTIONS WINDOWS WAY

Could you or someone please amend these to a step by step for the new/latest bios to be hacked. Thanks.

[paul3000h]

What you want to try is:

- Flash the new BIOS using the Sony tools
- Dump that BIOS to a usb drive
- Patch the BIOS with the existing tools, should work
- Flash the patched BIOS

Can't see why it wouldn't work...

I would like to move up to the latest bios but am unsure of the exact proceedure. I originally did the hack as my instructions here:

NEW INSTRUCTIONS WINDOWS WAY

Could you or someone please amend these to a step by step for the new/latest bios to be hacked. Thanks.

Looking again at what Ambroos said:

1. Does the new bios from the sony site contain all the full un-modded items/options within it and therefor if it does will updating to it and then using the exact same old instructions as above to hack it work?

2. Having already hacked the bios will having the hybrid drivers disabled in bios matter if the sony update re-enables them, before hacking again to re-set the "VGA Switching Policy" = "Static" ?