senso Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) Good evening, is there a way to disable what is supposed to be the Intel Anti Theft protection in a Toshiba Pro C850 laptop, the stock CPU is a Celeron B830, and I've an i7-2630qm laying around, as expect, works OK, temps are great, but as expected after 30 minutes the laptop just shuts down, is there a way to disable this kind of stupid limitation? Best regards. EDIT: Well, going a bit easier than expected.. The update BIOS contains the ME_FW already in a separated file, so I opened it up with FITC 8.1.10.1286 and Intel Anti-Theft is disabled and I can't see any obvious timeout values or timers/watchdogs :/ Any ideias if I'm doing things wrong, or is it some magic bit in the clock/ICC profile that disables this thingy? Attached is the ME_FW if anyone wants to take a peek. Thanks afain. F8_ME_FW.zip Edited February 18, 2017 by senso Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bios Modder Klem Posted February 19, 2017 Bios Modder Share Posted February 19, 2017 Hi! The Mobile Intel HM70 Express chipset which is available in your notebook supports only the Pentium or Celeron brand processors from the Intel microarchitectures code named Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senso Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 Hi Klem, really? Thats sad, the i7 works perfect with all cores/threads and boosts as expected, well, a repaste on the celeron and 8GB of ram at is Thanks for the fast reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bios Modder Klem Posted February 20, 2017 Bios Modder Share Posted February 20, 2017 For HM70 chipset, max CPU which will work without HPET lock (only 30 min), it's a Pentium 2030M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice.cold Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 You could try using "ME Cleaner" on a dump of your ME firmware, it might remove any cpu checking code if you're lucky. You can get the program from here: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner and there is a guide to use it here: http://hardenedlinux.org/firmware/2016/11/17/neutralize_ME_firmware_on_sandybridge_and_ivybridge.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senso Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 Interesting, thanks for the links, but the laptop was already returned to my friend(the owner), I found a B950, and after going into Device Manager and removing the CPU and rebooting it recognized the new CPU clock speed, added 4GB of RAM and a new 1TB HGST HDD, clean install of Windows and a cleaned heatsink, its ready for another couple years of Facebook and Spotify, if he ever wants I will try that, because I have a dozen i7's laying around from broken laptops that are just gattering dust in my desk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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