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I ordered a function board and I'm now able to see the BIOS over DVI by placing a magnet over the sensor. Success! Thanks @invait53

Ah! That makes sense - thanks!

Sadly I was never able to get the bios to show via VGA. I tried hovering a magnet around the prescribed area of the motherboard (top right side) but with no success. or if anyone knows if Does anyone know if lid sensor actually resides on the motherboard or if it was built into the plastic casing which I no longer have. I just have the bare motherboard of the laptop (no case, no plastic, no screen), hooked up to an external mouse, keyboard and a hdmi monitor. This all works fine, but I desperately want to get into the BIOS so I can enable virtualization. I tried watching a few videos of people tooling around inside various Elitebook bios setups to see if I could get lucky pressing keys blind in the hopes of enabling it. However, there are too many differences in the BIOS layout between models etc and I didn't manage to get anywhere. My ultimate goal is to install macos, but I think there are a few settings I'd need to change in the bios. Would anyone be willing to help me out with some pictures of the bios (and instructions on how to save and exit without a mouse), Any help would be massively appreciated.

I haven't had any luck finding the the hall (lid) sensor on the motherboard. Could anyone tell me where the magnet is located on the screen bezel? Thanks in advance!

Thanks for this. I'm running chassis-less, so I have a bare motherboard. I will look to see if I can find the lid sensor!

Do you know if the lvds cable is attached at the motherboard? Or has it been removed? I can't get the bios to show for love nor money, and the only way I can boot into a live USB is if I remove the sata drives. The problem there is I want to use gparted to repartition my drives. Does anyone know if there's a function key for turning off the display? Is there a guide somewhere with the bios menus? I've tried to boot from USB blind with esc -> f9 -> down down enter, but I always end up booting into windows. any suggestions appreciated!

Wow, thanks for that Valera. Did you have to press any keys to get it to switch, or did it just work? I wonder what I'm doing wrong...

Alright, Hi guys, been lurking on the forum for a couple of weeks as I bought a couple of 2570p motherboards to frankenbuild some headless computers to run a budget homelab.. They both worked more of less straight off the bat with newly fitted i7 3630qm's and ssd's preinstalled with win10. Off topic, the audio chipset on this board sounds a grade higher than most laptops I've had or have had, which is a bonus. Anyway, the one problem I am having is that I cannot get the bios to show on an external monitor. Someone a few posts up suggested plugging in VGA cable, but that hasn't worked either. Nothing will display until after I've booted into windows. I also tried to blindly set boot options with the hopes of landing in a ubuntu live USB, but with no luck. ̶I̶f̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶e̶r̶o̶s̶i̶t̶y̶,̶ ̶c̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶t̶r̶y̶ ̶u̶n̶c̶o̶n̶n̶e̶c̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶v̶d̶s̶ ̶c̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶a̶n̶e̶l̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶p̶l̶u̶g̶g̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶b̶o̶a̶r̶d̶,̶ ̶(̶a̶l̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶d̶u̶m̶m̶y̶ ̶p̶l̶u̶g̶)̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ s̶e̶e̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶o̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶w̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶x̶t̶e̶r̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶m̶o̶n̶i̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶p̶u̶t̶s̶?̶ ̶I̶'̶v̶e̶ ̶h̶a̶d̶ ̶s̶u̶c̶c̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶m̶e̶t̶h̶o̶d̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶l̶a̶p̶t̶o̶p̶s̶.̶ Update: @Valera Master also has a headless 2570p and can see the bios with just a vga cable attached. would be great to get passed this hurdle, so I can start I can start setting up a nas, and even mess around with an egpu. thanks for any help in advance.

I'd contact whoever it was you purchased the most recent laptop off of. If you're trying to remove an asset security suite I'm not too sure on the legality and you may need to look elsewhere (google might throw up some suggestions) for answers. Good luck!