Hi,
first off: Thank you for the great work you are doing here. I'm having the same issue as most other people here: A Yoga 2 Pro in which I'd like to replace the wifi card. Now, while reading this thread, I encountered multiple versions of the tool that creates the "results.rar" file. I see that they work quite similar (that is, they include almost the same files) but I am still wondering which one I am supposed to use.
So what I did so far is:
1. Run a Ubuntu 14.04.05 live USB to unlock the "advanced" tab in BIOS menu:
a) disable efi write protection
Code:
sudo chattr -i /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/SCUShowHiddenPage-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
b) hexedit efi to enable advanced tab
Code:
sudo ghex /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/SCUShowHiddenPage-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
...and then change the last value to 1, as is described
here
2. restarted, went to BIOS and disabled "BIOS Lock" in the advanced tab
3. Create a BIOS dump/ "results.rar"
a) Used
WinToUSB to create a Windows 8 live usb in EFI mode.
b) booted Windows 8 from USB
c) I wasn't sure which tool to use, so I ran:
i) the tool posted by
sovem (
#4) called 'TESTBACK.exe' (results are
here)
ii) the tool posted by
Da Vinci Code (
#121) called 'BACKUP_Tools18.exe' (results are
here)
4. Now i am left with these questions:
a) It would be awesome if someone could mod my bios dump and remove the whitelist
b) Just out of curiosity, i'd like to understand how this removal process works. So if someone has a link to a description, that would be much appreciated.
c) Is the whitelist mechanism actually completely removed or just extended to include several other wifi-cards? (In the latter case: I'd like to install a intel 7265 card)
d) can i flash the modified bios via Windows 10 or do I need to go to Windows 8/7 again?
Thanks for any replies and your support!