I tried flashing the R60 94xx SLIC .ROM file that was provided, when in fact phlash16.exe complained about a checksum error of some sort. I aborted it, as I don't want to brick my ThinkPad. Is this checksum behavior normal with SLIC modded BIOSes, and can I trust it? You guys who flashed it successfuly, what was your procecure (flasher, command line, etc)?
First of all I must thank Yen for his wonderful work. THANK YOU Yen, is there any guide to modify the "whitelist" of Lenovo's / HP's?
i had to ask the same question... .usf isn't compressed or a container... you can just rename it to .rom
IdeaPad Y430 I assume not. If you flashed, and reflashed your bios, and it still says HPQOEMSLIC-MPC slic, then Lenovo has included that slic in their bios, which is GREAT news for everyone with a Y430. EDIT: this is very interesting because this bios has a 374 byte ACPI5.ROM which looks like this
It's lacking of the marker part. At pre-installed machines the marker data was applied with the 'government' tools to the EEPROM, (named by skycn123). At biosupdate it's always lacking, this trick Lenovo made to provide only one bios update, no matter for pre-installed machines or not. If you add a second SLIC W7 / Vista doesn't activate. You either have to use the government tool to add the matching marker, or if you mod the bios, to rename the SLIC header to e.g. SLAC to avoid a duplicate slic.
I recognize that acpi5.rom doesn't have the marker, but the bios must have the marker somewhere for subra007 to have slic2.1, since the marker that came with the machine would have been slic2.0, right?
is there a possibility that your machine came from the factory with a slic2.1 marker? how long ago did you purchase your y430?
Its 8 months running ,i bought the laptop, and first time i run the dumping toolkit the data was there.