OEM Custom Bios

[TheWiz]

EDIT: I have successfully unlocked this bios. It can be found over at Biosmods.com

 

[Zidane24]

Just curious if anyone here has experience with modded bios and editing them in general. I have a hp nettle 2 and there's not really any good stuff to make it unlocked. Just a thought.

Thanks-

Chris J.

I am kind of wondering myself but it seems extremely risky...flashing the CMOS(?) with a new BIOS seems to be not only risky but downright dangerous...the kind of thing where anything could go wrong

 

[LFB]

this is not the right place for discuss this...

 

[Uber Philf]

Exactly, the last thing you want is your useful computer, into a very expensive paperweight, with a bricked BIOS. its a very risky job, i don't advise fiddling with this part of the computer.

 

[Zidane24]

this is not the right place for discuss this...

PM me and i send the right place...

thanks for the offer LFB but like drinking a nice cold one every now and then....you have to know where to put your foot down. I love to try lots of things on the computer and I am afraid that if I dived into you *info* about changing a computer BIOS....I would have a nice non-blinking box looking beside me....

 

[LFB]

thanks for the offer LFB but like drinking a nice cold one every now and then....you have to know where to put your foot down. I love to try lots of things on the computer and I am afraid that if I dived into you *info* about changing a computer BIOS....I would have a nice non-blinking box looking beside me....

yeah you're right... i don't approve this kind of modifications either...

I'm just saying that is forbidden to talk about this...

 

[Zidane24]

yeah you're right... i don't approve this kind of modifications either...

I'm just saying that is forbidden to talk about this...

agreed....MODS wouldn't appreciate that would they?

 

[TheWiz]

Didn't say I was gonna mess with it, just wanted to know what was out there. And I think the mods will give us a break here and there.

 

[Zidane24]

Didn't say I was gonna mess with it, just wanted to know what was out there. And I think the mods will give us a break here and there.

Your right but what I meant was if we actually disclosed a method (in detail) to do it...but general talk about it is fine of course

 

[stevieray]

This thread piqued my curiosity.

I can't figure out why the mods would frown on sharing BIOS tweaks. Most banned activities, like sharing torrent info, I can understand the reasoning... but this one baffles me.

Could someone enlighten me? What am I missing?

I don't want to accidentally cross any lines... but I can't figure out where this line is drawn.

Thanks

 

[Zidane24]

This thread piqued my curiosity.

I can't figure out why the mods would frown on sharing BIOS tweaks. Most banned activities, like sharing torrent info, I can understand the reasoning... but this one baffles me.

Could someone enlighten me? What am I missing?

I don't want to accidentally cross any lines... but I can't figure out where this line is drawn.

Thanks

I think it is due to the illegal/cracking methods one could do with such knowledge concerning the BIOS like putting a custom BIOS to by pass Computrace...things like that

 

[Generator]

It's because alot of people try modding the BIOS to get around Volume Licencing/OEM installs.

You may be prompted to activate Windows Vista on a computer on which Windows Vista was already activated by a Volume License or OEM installation

EDIT: I presume anyways.

 

[Legacy Code]

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Google is your friend , but id recommend not to mess about with it to be honest.

 

[Generator]

It's never a good idea to mess about with BIOS in that sense.

Legit flashes can be scary enough when you know that the motherboard makers have wrote them, nevermind a hacker or cracker or whatever you wanna call them.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Google is your friend , but id recommend not to mess about with it to be honest.

But Bing! is your life long buddy.

It's never a good idea to mess about with BIOS in that sense.

Legit flashes can be scary enough when you know that the motherboard makers have wrote them, nevermind a hacker or cracker or whatever you wanna call them.

Lol, very scary indeed. I updated my HP's BIOS with the update on HP's site, I thought it killed itself because it sat there on start up for 5 minutes. Worked fine ever since but geez I almost died of a heart attack.

 

[nate42nd]

But Bing! is your life long buddy.




Lol, very scary indeed. I updated my HP's BIOS with the update on HP's site, I thought it killed itself because it sat there on start up for 5 minutes. Worked fine ever since but geez I almost died of a heart attack.

This is why I got a "dual BIOS" board. It was so nice flashing this baby. I didn't even need to worry. haha If it fails it just moves to then next BIOS then copies it to the ruined one. These are nice.

To answer the original question...I would not mess with the BIOS when you can get a better board for $50. Just do that if you need features you don't have.

 

[TheWiz]

Well the ram that im ordering will be great but on the hp site the newer bios fixes problems with sleep and hibernate with 4gb of ram and it also updates agesa, which i dont really care about. I'm using 32 bit win 7 now and im reformatting to 64 bit next week, question is will the sleep issues carry over into windows 7.

 

[DarkXeno]

I own a few HP machines myself, and have had the sleep issue before updating the BIOS to the newest firmware I have yet to see it with the new firmware and Windows 7.
As for the flashing a HP with a moded bios I would highly recommend not doing that, due to HP having mobo makers change some of their boards to fit what HP wants it might be a minor tweak that HP wanted but it could be something the new modder never thought of and you would create a nice new heavy paper weight.
I would update to the newest firmware and add the ram you where looking at, and then do some research on a new board while you use the current firmware config.

 

[TheWiz]

Yeah don't have the money for a new board right now so I'm just gonna get my ram go 64 bit and be doe with upgrading this system. Its not that it isnt fast, I just like to get the most out of it