Thanks 911medic, I am waiting for someone who can figure out the problem of this mod bios. I really want to use window 7.
I know this bios has been a PITA.. I can take a look, but it will be a while..week or so maybe. I can offer some quick pearls, but I will not have time to analyse anything until then..sorry....
If it's inserted only, then shouldn't that mean the device will continue to be blocked? If I understand it correctly the change is to remove the whitelisting? Also how would BusyKid know the vendor ID and the device ID? The device is a Sierra AirCard MC8781. BTW I am totally an idiot in BIOS ROM patching so excuse my limited knowledge if I am not making sense...
I thought the error was trying to use a different Wifi card in the computer..my apologies.. What error are you experiencing..Not a supported device???
Maybe i have confused you as well my friend. Here's the whole issue: I have a HP dv2 that does not come with a 3G wireless modem. I found a good deal on a Sierra MC8781 and plugged it into the empty mini PCI slot. When the laptop boots, it shows "105-unsupported wireless broadband device detected" prior booting to Windows, and I have to unplug the card and restart the machine in order to go back to Windows. With my research I learned that HP locked the BIOS so it only allows HP-branded 3G wireless modem to be used. And that's how I end up seeking a solution in this forum. Am I on the right path to ask experts like you to help me to get this device on the whitelist? I appreciate all the info and help you guys have been giving so far
Yep..you have a whitelist problem. That is not what is modded here though. I do not have time to help you with it at the moment, and wont for some time. this has to be done manually, the tool does not do it. You have a SLIC to activate Windows 7..To allow the Wifi card, you need another modification, unrelated to the SLIC. I would suggest maybe Yen, but he is also busy, I am sure.. Put a PM in my box if you do not find help soon, and I will see what I can do. We will need the ID strings among other things..I cannot elaborate now, as I have to go quickly.. Sorry...
Thank you for letting me know. I've read from other forums too that I'll need to go through like 20 steps using tools like AMIBIOS. I don't know where to get the IDs, but I do get them from the previous card owner. vendor id=1199 and product id=6856. The HP white-list IDs should be F0 03 1D 1F. I'll send both you and Yen a PM and if anyone can help me out here it will be a life saver... thanks
Yeah but you should not be seeing that SLIC in your original non modded bios. It does not match the OEM SLIC included in the non modded bios. That report you posted was from your non modded bios. If there is a problem when you have the original non modded bios installed, even the modded SLIC is going to error the same message. Either the report you first posted was not the oem original bios or I'm thinking a loader/emulator is present pushing a 2.1 SLIC. That public key is from one of the 2.1 SLICs, oem should have public key from 2.0 SLIC. If that 2.1 SLIC was checksum'd prior to load, it is not matching any Acer SLIC I have looked at. Maybe take a PE disk and run the SLIC tool to see what it detects loading off PE. If it reads good, then there is a loader/emulator installed, remove it. If it reads the same error, something is not being flashed correctly, maybe 1.21 did not revert back to 1.20... quick look, the 1.20 rom either jumps the SLIC table or after detecting SLIC string moves/separates the pubkey/msgdigsig into two memory location, call location is made then returns setting or clearing the flag. add on next time you flash use /FORCE to that cmd line you posted. ex /O /Force /X /C /S