cyberfox

Back story: I was born on a planet a few light years from here. We are called Autobooks - autonomous notebooks. Our civilization ended when no none could modify the BIOS that OEMs produced. The standoff lead to extinction of our race. I finally came here on earth, the land of freedom - where almost all BIOS can be unlocked. My name is Y510p and I am stuck with bios 2.7. It needs to be unlocked so that I can see the freedom of the advanced menu.

Intel RST will not work until the storage controller is configured as RAID. I prefer a H/W solution than expresscahe (especially since we have all the hardware present). A mod on 2.7 that can enable advanced menu will be great. With iSRT + SSD it will be significant boost in performance specially in gaming. We will be able to use up-to 64 GB SSD cache with H/W RAID. Judging from the forum contents, 2.7 bios is already available here. A whiltelist mod is available and some more was also promised on the original thread. Please activate the advanced menu in 74CN41WW (V2.07). This is a great community and the quality of the original work product came out of this forum is remarkable, @svl7 is a legend. You guys really rock. I believe there are a lot of other people like me counting on you to save the day (read laptop).

Looks like there is a way here which I could not make it to work. VBoxManage setextradata MyVM "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/BiosRom" "c:\mybios.rom"ref: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1929

Yes, people are experiencing the same. Here is a bug on that. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1295788

Trying with vmware or virtualbox could be real useful (at least for someone noob like me) to check that I am not flashing a random BIOS.

Is there any way we can test a modded BIOS without flashing? a) with vmware or with boot with some USB and re-loading a BIOS from there. Anything that can be achievable with interrupt table reloading? c) I remember that in PCI storage card there was always a possibility to hijack BIOS with PCI card firmware. Because the firmware optionally injects some x86 code that can be executed by the CPU. There is technically no privilege mode restriction there. Virtually anything is possible (including but not limited to chain loading another firmware). With this theory - since my USB taps into the PCI bus, is it possible to use a OTG to push a modded BIOS in memory? This BIOS addressing/loading must be relocated to RAM (read-write) segment. If that is possible then a RaspberryPi can do the job.

1. Is there any option to vae this mod without vBios mod? 2. Does this enable Dyanmic Storage Technology bit for Intel RST?