This is no request thread! HP COMPAQ bioses, how to modify the bios?

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by Yen, Aug 6, 2009.

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  1. Corpo

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    #786 Noob7, Nov 9, 2009
    Need some help. I have a hp 550 laptop and i want to know if the bios can be modded for windows 7. Thanks
     
  7. kocoman

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    hp compaq dc7600

    any luck with hp compaq dc7600?
     
  12. smarty

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    #792 smarty, Nov 12, 2009
    Hi BIOS Experts, i have hp pavilion m7581in with XP Media Center installed in it. I wanted to know that if i mod the BIOS to SLIC 2.1 (if possible) to get windows 7 then WILL I LOOSE THE LICENSING SYSTEM FOR XP?
    Another question is that when i downloaded the updated BIOS from hp and when i extracted it, it was a .rom format but when i saved the current BIOS using winflash, it was in .bin format. I m now cnfused that which one is the BIOS file? If i would have updated my PC with .rom file had my PC been crashed though it was an original update?
     
  13. moey

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    #793 moey, Nov 12, 2009
    can you please post full info - i have searched everywhere and tried to follow several guides without success
     
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    HP Pavilion ZD8000 slics do not work

    The cast version of the HP Pavilion ZD8000 slics do not work, could be programmed with other certificates?, Thanks.
     
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    SMBus and SPI are totally independent. The flashrom utility can talk to SPI (flash chip), but not SMBus (clock chip etc.).

    There are multiple problems with the output above:
    1. You are using a flashrom version which is at least half a year old. That's ancient.
    2. flashrom doesn't find your chip. This could be caused by the ancient flashrom version, or perhaps your chip has an unexpected ID.
    3. Forced read on Intel chipsets can lead to skipped regions (this is a chipset limitation). You can't know that, but newer flashrom versions would have warned you.
    4. AFAIK you didn't report the issues above to the flashrom development team.

    Please retry with a current flashrom version (straight from the flashrom svn tree) and if that one still doesn't find the chip, contact flashrom developers by mail flashrom _at_ flashrom.org or on IRC irc.freenode.net/#flashrom.

    This command line can't work. See below: "flashrom can never write when the flash chip isn't found automatically".

    Technically, it could write in such cases, but there were too many people who tried exactly that, ignored all warnings and killed their BIOS, and because of that this functionality has been disabled.

     
  18. MikeGSM

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    I cant get this working... Who can help me ???
     
  19. sebus

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    #799 sebus, Nov 16, 2009
    What is not working?

    You can not follow the steps?

    sebus
     
  20. tamarinde

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    #800 tamarinde, Nov 16, 2009
    I was wondering if anyone received an upgrade kit for the 8510w/8710w.
    My cd only mentions the xx30 models.
     
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