I have made some heavy hardware mods for my old notebook as I become tired from all this new s*itty laptops that are made nowdays and wanted to come back to good old hardware modified for my needs. (10,6", 12battery hours - 2 batteries, full metal, 3G WWAN integrated.....nothing new can come even close).
I have upgraded a soldered CPU onboard and several other modifications. The most important is that the notebook had a 1.8" PATA/ZIF harddrive and I have replaced it with sata SSD. I found out that there is a stupid converter from SATA to PATA onboard so I desoldered it and stole all the SATA connection from there.
I ended up with perfectly working notebook that unfortunately CAN NOT BOOT from my primary disk.
The reason is that the BIOS available menu is totally unprepared for SATA and the bootable devices doesn't contain my SATA device (Drive1) even though the bios can identify the SSD well and the system see it well.
I used Phoenix bios editor and I see all the missing entries in the Strings section ("SATA comaptibility mode"; "Drive1 HDD:") that I need for my SSD to boot.
Phoenix bios editor also throws on me some errors like RLS error and I can't access setup table.
As a side effect windows refuse to install on the disk as it claims that "Your hardware may not support booting from this disk".
So I really really need those options or whole bios unlocked.
..............As I value time of others I'm offering reward of $60 for unlocking this bios...........
Here are links for the bios(es):
1) Bios version 1.11 latest
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oesv77jm7y4kskh/MSLV111.ROM
2) Bios version 1.10 just for comparison
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cx9d42sfmzag5zc/MSLV110.ROM
3) Original BIOS backup from SPROM using Elnec programmer - It includes security zone - some serial numbers etc. It's not needed for my purpose but may be usefull.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/40342gmtijxj6j...iginal.bin
You can use my e..mail to contact me directly.
silhanek('at')cmkkits.com
Thank you,
Shef
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