[Request] Advanced tab unlock on HP Vistus laptop

[jojoosinga]

Hi! I am trying to unlock the IBV Advanced tab on my HP Victus gaming laptop.

I have modded biosses before with AMIBCP and or a Hex editor. But this bios has a signature file that it checks on boot. I tried almost anything. I can change values in the bios with amisetupwriter but I don't know how to patch the setup so that the menu tab shows. I can't even dump the bios since AMI AFU kicks out error 46 error getting flash info. If I open the bios with the ami setup editor I can see it's an UCORE 2 Project. And i can even replace the image with my own modded one but I can't flash. HP uses an EFI flasher to flash and I can't get it to skip signature checks.

Thanks!

https://transfer.sh/5r04Jv/08A3C.bin - Unmodded bios

[rofikkernel]

Hi! I am trying to unlock the IBV Advanced tab on my HP Victus gaming laptop.

I have modded biosses before with AMIBCP and or a Hex editor. But this bios has a signature file that it checks on boot. I tried almost anything. I can change values in the bios with amisetupwriter but I don't know how to patch the setup so that the menu tab shows. I can't even dump the bios since AMI AFU kicks out error 46 error getting flash info. If I open the bios with the ami setup editor I can see it's an UCORE 2 Project. And i can even replace the image with my own modded one but I can't flash. HP uses an EFI flasher to flash and I can't get it to skip signature checks.

Thanks!

https://transfer.sh/5r04Jv/08A3C.bin - Unmodded bios

you need Intel FPT brother for do that, and pathing running bios for unlocked

[abigor82]

hi, I would be interest a modded bios for this laptop...
i have victus 15-fa00 intel version
any luck?

[jojoosinga]

hi, I would be interest a modded bios for this laptop...
i have victus 15-fa00 intel version
any luck?

Sure!

[Outsyde]

I have a different HP laptop where I'd also like to mod the BIOS to show the IBV Advanced & IHV Advanced menus.

Here and elsewhere people say it's actually enough to change Access/Use from "Default" to "USER" in AMIBCP:
https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=1026890&view=findpost&p=118942036

That sounds too easy but even if it doesn't work, there are other ways.

But I'm surprised I can't find a single success story where someone had it done already. Am I missing something? Is there some extra, HP-specific obstacle to reflashing a modified BIOS?

But this bios has a signature file that it checks on boot.

What do you mean by that?

You succesfully flashed a modified BIOS and it wouldn't boot?

Or is it that you can't figure out a way to flash it without a hardware programmer such as the CH341A (which I guess is expected)?