HP Compaq 6710b slic 2.1 mod

[SirVic]

hi, i've posted before but i guess your mysql db crashed, anyways i have an HP Compaq 6710s with slic 2.0, i need 2.1 to activate windows 7, none of the cracks/loaders work ;/

here is the bios :

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/Tec...sp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3368538&prodNameId=3356621&swEnvOID=2096&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-67816-1

hope it's modable.

thanks.

[1234s282]

Hi Mate

First , i would like to apologise for the downtime , we had to move hosts several times as some were far too slow!

This is one of the more difficult HP bioses , as it cant be opened in any tools that work for other bioses , so i had to use a hex editor

Found HP 2.0 SLIc there already and removed it , replaced with HP 2.1 SLIC

Dont know if thats all that was needed but you can try this:-

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/747181/HP%206...34s282.zip

Flash at your own risk!

Kind Regards
Admin

[monta990]

Is posible use this bios on HP Compaq 6710b?

[dvd_boost]

Is posible use this bios on HP Compaq 6710b?

No point to try it even. There is "write protection" of known area (different in some of the PC's) of the BIOS flash, which keeps the old values of the SLIC marker even after "successful" flashing. By the way your machune and some others with similar BIOS'es (i.e. series 8710) has double SLIC markers. You will be able to overwrite the first one but unfortunately the BIOS reads the second one, so your BIOS will remain SLIC 2.0.
There is a place where those "difficult" BIOS'es have been discussed in months already - still no solution except flashing the BIOS using general purpose SPI programmer. You need some professional equipment and good skils ofr soldering/desoldering the BIOS chip.

As I said, no solution yet, but we all still have the hope

[Harm2k12]

Hi all,
I've read that the BIOS (F.20) of my HP Compaq 6710b can't be modified with a slic 2.1 table. Now it contains a slic 2.0 table for activating/registring Windows Vista. My notebook came with a F.20 bios version and no Vista (hdd was wiped), due to the fact that this was a lease business notebook.
What i would like is Windows 7 on it with a BIOS containing a slic 2.1 table. Is this possible or not?
I've already tried everything to revert the notebook to a pervious version, but as the documentation of HP says, that's impossible.
This whole situation of flashing (with almost every tool i could get my hands on and belive me they where a lot), still no success.
A couple of days ago i've dismantled my notebook to find the actual BIOS chip itself and solder it off the mainboard for reading in a spi programmer. Ordered off eBay a suitable programmer, still not here (China -> Netherlands is a long way it seems), so i can't read the actual chip.
I've tried some confirmation on other boards, also with little response, thus trying it here.
The eeprom chip is in my case a 25VF080B (SST/Microchip), 8 Mbit serial SPI Flash.
(Note: there are the same HP Compaq notebooks around with other maufacturer BIOS- chips, such as the 26DF081A-SU (Atmel) and 25X80VSIG (Winbond). They seem interchangeable.) I think the position of the chip on the notebook mainboard is just beside the pcmcia- connector and has the designator U23. Can anyone confirm this?

I kindly ask; does anyone have a slic 2.1 table (or tables?) for my notebook and if i have the rom contents where do i write the down (offset/position), is there only 1 table ore are there 2 tables? I really don't know...

The F.20 BIOS file is at Hewlett Packard at:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/Tec...D=2103#120

Softpack number: sp55553.exe
Any information is welcomed and i thank you in advance.
Kind regards.
P.S. I've attached the Rw info.

[anfield]

please help me with a bios mod.

HP Compaq 6710b mod with SLIC2.1 table

Bios F.20 BIOS
 f.15 or f.16

thanks a lot for your work !!