Mod BIOS for additional SATA controller in WWAN slot of Dell Inspiron 1525

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by Pankoz, Aug 20, 2021.

  1. Pankoz

    Pankoz MDL Novice

    Aug 16, 2021
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    Hi everyone!
    My task description: there is Inspiron 1525 with empty uwb and wwan slots. I've purchased minipcie sata controller based on as1061. This controller works good on desktop, but when I insert it into laptop - it stucks on POST without any error messages (although maybe it stucks on controller's bios - I'm not sure yet). Laptop bios ver a17.
    I think there is some issue with laptop bios trying to launch controller, and I would like to investigate it - first of all where and why it stucks - but still can't find description for module types. Does anybody have a link to Phoenix Dell bios module types list for a17 (or maybe to related topics)? And maybe anybody faced/resolved similar issues earlier?
     
  2. Pankoz

    Pankoz MDL Novice

    Aug 16, 2021
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    Decompressed my current bios a17 with phoenixtool - got a lot of rom files. Most of them have name format like xx_dd.rom, where xx is in hex format, dd - in decimal. I guess xx is number by order and dd - module type, but I'm not sure. Going to look through all of them...