Hi all the forum member. I am delighted to get the membership of this forum. I have a problem which is i think common to most of the people around. I have lenovo y410 laptop with phoneix bios. When i tried to upgrade my wireless card which is 3945bg to intel wifi link 5100, i got the header error unauthorized network card is plugged in . Please remove and restart. I tried searching on the internet about it but could not get any help. Could any of the member please help me to edit bios to enter the 5100 into the acceptable pci cards or edit the pci card to include the ids of former card(3945) to make it appear as the 3945 is plugged in. I hope the abundant knowledge flows in this forum will be able to help me Thank you
Hi! I apologize for pulling up this old thread, but I have a question pointing into the same direction and thus didn't want to open a new thread. I have a Lenovo 3000-Y410 with Intel 345ABG Wireless adapter. I have to get a new router for my home network and think about buying an 802.11n router - which means I need a new wireless adapter for my Y410. I thought about buying an intel 5100, 5300 or 4965agn, or an atheros based wireless-n adapter. Before buying I did some reading and found this thread. Do you guys have a recommendation for a cheap n-adapter working in my Y410, and/or a solution bringing me over the "unauthorized network card"-problem? Thanks!
I cannot recommend an adapter since I don't know which one is a good one. Important is that you know its device IDs vendorID and subsys IDs. How to get them is described in the thread. For the 5100 they are "He told me that his Ids for the intel 5100 are: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4237&SUBSYS_12118086" To remove the error I would have to modify your BIOS and add the IDs, so you would have to flash a modified BIOS that had been available at this thread. The link has been expired so I would need to modify it again. Most important is that you buy an adapter of which the IDs are known. Alternatively one can get the IDs by installing the adapter at another notebook which is not restricted and then to get the IDs from the device manager there.
u can also put in hibernation .. replace card and wake up then check device manager. (not always working)
Thanks for your answers! I will then try to hit a 5100 or 5300 on ebay and come back here when I have a card.
@all: I tried flashing the original BIOS file, but winphlash gives me an error "cannot load driver ...\phlashnt.sys Please check your accounts, if you have no administrator privilege, please login again! The driver has been blocked from loading Error code: 1275." Using the mini-Xwin XP from hirens boot CD, I tried using winphlash again, but on start, the program terminates with the message "Runtime Error! The Application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way" --> Solved, after pressing OK the program works and I can flash the original BIOS flawlessly! Digging deeper, i found that the 1275-error has to do with windows 7 x64, so I tried winphlash64 instead - but this one gives me an error "Platform signature not found in interface, error code -103." - Does anyone know how to circumvent this problem? --> solved using Hirens boot CD @Yen: I got my new wireless card today and the Y410 gives me the "unauthorized network card..." error as expected. I tried modifying the BIOS on my own (I opened the BIOS file with phoenix BIOS editor, added the correct hardware ID 86 80 91 00 86 80 01 52 over 86 80 22 42 86 80 01 10 in the file BIOSCOD01.ROM and created a new BIOS file in the editor, but when I tried to flash it, I got the error "Corrupt interface descriptors in the new BIOS file. Part Table Signature not found in the Interface. Error Code: -161". Can you help me out with this hack? The new card is: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230. Hardware Ids: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0091&SUBSYS_52018086&REV_34 My Laptop is: Y410 Model 7757 My BIOS is 05CN63WW, it can be found here: h**p://consumersupport.lenovo.com/ot/en/driversdownloads/drivers_list.aspx?categoryid=6# For your reference, my old card was Intel 3945ABG, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4222&SUBSYS_10008086&REV_02 Would you be willing to build a modified BIOS for me?
Yes sure I guess tomorrow I have time for it. Well I suggest to boot a 32 bit OS for this flash or to boot DOS and flash it from DOS with phlash17 (dos version of winphlash)
Sorry for the delay. I guess I can mod the BIOS at weekend. Make sure you've flashed the original version successfully already and use the same way to flash the mod then.
@Yen: I am happy that you are going to help me. Meanwhile, I have successfully flashed the BIOS from the link above; it is the right one.
Cool. Another useless restriction to force somebody to buy a new device has been removed. Enjoy your new card.
Another question: How can I see, which CPUs are supported in my laptop? I would like to upgrade the CPU to something > 2GHz, they are available on ebay for small money. According to the Chipset(GM965/PM965)- and CPU-Specs the y410 should be able to run T7300, T7500, T7700, T7800, T8100, T8300 and T9500 - all using 800 MHz FSB and a TDP of 35 W, and possibly X7800, X7900 and X9000 using same FSB but a TDP of 44W. However, I have no clue if these CPUs will be running in this strange BIOS - Is there a way to figure this out other than buying+trying one of these CPUs?
It's actually the same. Each BIOS has a list of CPUIDs which can run. If one isn't listed it can be replaced....I guess.... Normally there is no intention to restrict. The supported CPUs will usually run with the latest original BIOS. I can try to post the CPUIDs of your BIOS here, never extracted them of a Phoenix BIOS though....I can try to find it when I have spare time.
It would be really nice of you, if you could extract the CPU-IDs from the BIOS. How would you do this - just searching CPU-IDs (e.g. 06 FD --> FD 06 for the T5250-SLA9S) in the Hex-Files?