1. str8

    str8 MDL Expert

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    Yes, thank you for this warning :) I'm going to be very careful. Aslo I think Yen just confirmed that the block I copied is the right one! So we are very close to figure out how to mod this - just these 00 bytes that have to be patched seem to be a little problem since I don't know which ones to change.
     
  2. str8

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    Hello caudex, I have a question for you. Since you laptop is already a little messed up would you wanna try to flash your bios with one where i will change OEMID and OEMTableID? You said the one you modded you have successfully flashed right? So I could try to change those IDs there. What do you think?
     
  3. str8

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    Ok YEN! I think i found the solution! This doesn't have to be HP slic right? We can use Dell which seems perfectly fitting the Sony VAIO pattern -

    DELL + 00 00 & FX09 + 00 00 00 00.

    Or there is another Dell -

    DELL + 00 00 & B10K + 00 00 00 00

    I'm 99% sure this will work :)
     
  4. Yen

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    It wouldn't, Dell doesn't have zero bytes there they have space 0x20 Right?
     
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  5. str8

    str8 MDL Expert

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    Oh, yeah :( you are right! I got too excited and didn't notice it :(
    Yen can you please help here when you have your tools? we are so close...
     
  6. Yen

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    I'm not at home.. can't do anything cannot open your dump....in about 2 hours I'll be at home again...
    ........what was the reason why a Sony Notebook bricked already???
     
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  7. str8

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    Hm, I thought I saw a user Yin requesting a mod. I did it but don't see his post anymore??? Weird.
     
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    Is MS Has been BANED the 22TKD serial i'm not sure,i have heared some news in other forum
    everyone can tell me ???
     
  9. str8

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    Hi Yen, I actually don't really know what happened exactly with bricked Sony - I think he used a modded bios with Lenovo slic and after flash has got a blank screen.
    Anyhow he did alright at frist when he changed pubkey and marker himself but forgot about OEMID OEMTableID in the slic header. And that's where I'm stuck also modding another Sony bios - like you said earlier it's easy to identify Sony and VAIO but i'm not sure about those extra 00 bytes. Well I'll come back in a coupla hours to check what you think about this. If we figure this out (which i'm sure we will :D) then we can mod insyde sonys with no problem. Thank you for your time Yen.
     
  10. Yen

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    #470 Yen, Aug 6, 2009
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    Code:
    Offset      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F
    
    00000000   00 89 42 14 48 8B 05 A5  39 00 00 8B 48 04 89 4A   .‰B.H‹.¥9..‹H.‰J
    00000010   19 8B 05 A1 39 00 00 89  42 28 48 8B 05 97 39 00   .‹.¡9..‰B(H‹.—9.
    00000020   00 8B 48 04 89 4A 2D 8B  05 93 39 00 00 89 42 3C   .‹H.‰J-‹.“9..‰B<
    00000030   48 8B 05 89 39 00 00 8B  48 04 89 4A 41 8B 05 85   H‹.‰9..‹H.‰JA‹.…
    00000040   39 00 00 89 42 50 48 8B  05 7B 39 00 00 8B 48 04   9..‰BPH‹.{9..‹H.
    00000050   89 4A 55 4C 8B 05 76 39  00 00 81 7A 01 43 46 47   ‰JUL‹.v9..z.CFG
    00000060   44 74 15 41 8B 40 04 48  FF C2 49 03 C0 48 3B D0   Dt.A‹@.HÿÂI.ÀH;Ð
    00000070   0F 86 77 FF FF FF EB 06  41 8B 01 89 42 06 33 C0   .†wÿÿÿë.A‹.‰B.3À
    00000080   C3 CC CC CC 48 53 4C 8B  DC 48 83 EC 30 49 8D 43   ÃÌÌÌHSL‹ÜHƒì0IC
    00000090   10 C7 41 0A 48 50 51 4F  66 C7 41 0E 45 4D 48 C7   .ÇA.HPQOfÇA.EMHÇ
    000000A0   41 10 53 4C 49 43 49 89  43 F0 48 8B 05 2F 3A 00   A.SLICI‰CðH‹./:.
    000000B0   00 48 8B D9 4D 8D 4B 18  48 8D 15 29 36 00 00 48   .H‹ÙMK.H.)6..H
    000000C0   8D 0D 2A 30 00 00 45 33  C0 49 C7 43 18 04 00 00   .*0..E3ÀIÇC....
    000000D0   00 C7 44 24 40 2D 4D 50  43 FF 10 48 85 C0 78 07   .ÇD$@-MPCÿ.H…Àx.
    000000E0   8B 44 24 40 89 43 18 48  83 C4 30 5B C3 CC CC CC   ‹D$@‰C.HƒÄ0[ÃÌÌÌ
    000000F0   48 8B 15 B9 38 00 00 8B  42 04 48 03 C2 EB 11 80   H‹.¹8..‹B.H.Âë.€
    00000100   3A 14 75 09 81 7A 03 5F  50 43 54 74 0A 48 FF C2   :.u.z._PCTt.HÿÂ
    00000110   48 3B D0 76 EA EB 3D 8A  42 01 0F B6 4A 02 C1 E1   H;Ðvêë=ŠB..¶J.Áá
    00000120   04 83 E0 0F 03 C1 48 03  C2 EB 17 80 3A 82 75 0F   .ƒà..ÁH.Âë.€:‚u.
    00000130   80 7A 04 10 75 09 81 7A  07 00 80 00 00 74 0A 48   €z..u.z..€..t.H
    00000140   FF C2 48 3B D0 76 E4 EB  0B 0F B7 05 54 38 00 00   ÿÂH;Ðväë..·.T8..
    00000150   48 89 42 07 33 C0 C3 CC  48 53 48 83 EC 20 48 8B   H‰B.3ÀÃÌHSHƒì H‹
    00000160   D9 E8 62 2D 00 00 66 89  05 6B 39 00 00 E8 EE 2E   Ùèb-..f‰.k9..èî.
    
    
    This is the only solution that makes sense to me.....but it's NOT confirmed!
     
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  11. str8

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    Thank you for yor quick response Yen. Also what do you think : how big is the chance that the part "-MPC" was also split in two? Like "-M"+"PC"?
     
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    #472 bgage, Aug 6, 2009
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    If thats the one... then I made a bad call when modding caudex bios :(
     
  13. Yen

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    Don't worry, tell me please exactly what you've did. It's important to know, we can learn from your attempt!
    I'll check it again!!!

    st8 is right we need to check for 4+2+4+2+2 also!
     
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    #474 bgage, Aug 6, 2009
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    I saw that block earlier when searching... but they didn't match the pattern 4+2+4+4 or sometimes 4+2+8 plus no MSFT in there, usually they close together in the block... what I search is space (20) not zero... so the one that match is this one :

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    01DC6590   01 00 00 00 44 00 00 00  38 00 00 19 44 42 47 50   ....D...8...DBGP
    01DC65A0   34 00 00 00 01 00 53 6F  6E 79 20 20 56 41 49 4F   4.....Sony  VAIO
    01DC65B0   20 20 20 20 24 08 07 20  4D 53 46 54 40 42 0F 00       $.. MSFT@B..
    01DC65C0   00 00 00 00 01 40 00 01  F8 03 00 00 00 00 00 00   .....@..ø.......
    01DC65D0   99 40 C0 AF 39 0D 5D 40  BE 46 84 6F 08 C5 1A 31   ™@À¯9.]@¾F„o.Å.1
    So I patch this one with LENOVO.. since it use MSFT too...
    Guess its my bad now caudex board got bricked :(
     
  15. Yen

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    Don't be sad, you did your best.;)
    To make that sure you have to run that through IDA pro disassembler...I'm not quite sure myself and I'm not able to disassemble.......
     
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  16. bgage

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    Thanks yen for the comfort... I hope caudex managed to recover the bios using his backup... Once again I'm so so sorry caudex :(
     
  17. Yen

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    bgage, I'm sure your place is not the right one, but I'm also sure to edit there should be a good place, since you've edited text strings only...it's not your fault it was an accident...I cannot advise to try my idea if you are not able to recover, too.
     
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