Hi everybody,
To begin, I would like to thank the creators of this forum for all informations.

I have a first generation HP Z1 and I would like to offer him the opportunity to unlock his possibilities by unhidding Advanced menu.

I downloaded AMIBCP v4.53 to opening the last firmware : J52_0274.BIN but i'm afraid to make mistake.

Please, is it the right software for my needs ?

Could you confim me i need to activate USER at Access/Use in Setup configuration ?

Thank you in advance for give me the procedure to follow for making a perfect bios.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/6o0rtz

Chris


Normal advanced menu


Hidden advanced menu

Hi

Just to ask

Have you unlocked hidden menu?

I tried , but i cant :(

(Sorry for my Bad English)

@skam2420 Yes, this is possible. Were you able to flash your modified BIOS without issue? If yes, I can mod for you, or if you have flash programmer even better.

Please link me to stock BIOS you want unlocked.

Thanky so much, this is the STOCK BIOS https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp88501-89000/sp88794.exe :)

Thanks, I will look!

Have you already flashed a modified BIOS at all before on this board, or do you know someone that has before? Do you have Flash Programmer like CH341A or others?
I ask because sometimes it's difficult to flash edited BIOS, so wondered if you already knew working valid method or not.

I wiil try to flash in this model for the first time, I flashed ALIENWARE INTEL PROTECTED FLASH , I will try to do something like I did on alienware to bypass the security

Sometimes we just have to figure out what tool will work (AFU or FPT, or maybe standard non-OEM phlash etc) vs the stock flasher which will not work with modified BIOS. I will know once I extract the stock exe contents.
If you have some spare $, only $6-7, go ahead and order CH341A flash programmer and SOIC8 text clip jumper cable they are $3 each usually or less. That way you have it on the way in case either it's the only way to get modified BIOS into board or in case of bad flash and you need to recover BIOS

@skam2420 - I am unfamiliar with that BIOS flashing tool, and even unpacked and viewing the internals of the HPQFlash tool itself DOS or Win I cannot figure out what they built it around/with, maybe their own flash program instead of one of the usual suspects.
Can you please download these Intel Flash Programming tools package - https://mega.nz/#!CF1l1LJK!K2l6_74FPsGig...Rvp8Efj8a5drZSc

Unzip and go into main root folder where you see several sub-folders. Go to "Flash Programming Tool" go into that folder, and on the "Win32" select that folder, hold shift and then right click, choose open command window here.
Then run the following commands one at a time, take an image of each one if there is error (So I can see error, and command above that causing the error). And zip and upload or attach any/all files output from these commands (spi.bin, desc.bin, and biosrgbackup.bin)

fptw -d spi.bin
fptw -desc -d desc.bin
fptw -bios -d biosrgbackup.bin

ok, I will do that at night (13:05 here), I am at Job, but I will do it soon as possible

No hurry, I'm leaving shortly too and wont be back until tonight either

When you get back to this thread, please show me images of your current BIOS, advanced section, main section, file section, and security section.
And please be sure to make all top tabs/sections viewable, so I can see all current visible sections and their names.

@Siem - if you still need this, I will be modifying this BIOS over next few days - probably take a few revisions before we get everything unlocked and visible - heads up!

Hello, Here are the files http://www.mediafire.com/folder/4speqhdsh796a/


Siem bios and my request are the same model (my request is the last update) :)

Thanks, looks like we can update "BIOS Region" via FPT, and that is all we need for this! I still need all images mentioned in post #9 before I can get started

LINK UPDATED with pics of BIOS options n_n

What is in File "Replicated Setup"? Please take more images in new folder at mediashare, if that is another big set of menus.
Never mind, I see this is to save current settings so you can load them again later vs the default settings application option directly below that

@skam2420 - you said you already tried, but can't, does this mean you set "User" to some menus in AMIBCP, and flashed that BIOS, but still no change in BIOS?
Asking to confirm you did this already with AMIBCP, so further edit is needed on top of that, and so that I know you've already been able to flash modified BIOS and it accepted it. How did you flash modified BIOS?

I tried with AMIBCP but give me an error when save the file , replicated setup only give 2 options, SAVE TO EXTERNAL USB DEVICE or RESTORE

Thanks, I was just curious what you had tried and it's outcome. I do not get any error when saving edited file with AMIBCP? I did use 4.55 though, so maybe that is why no error?
Anyway, usually change to "User" does not always work, but it's sometimes needed to leave that way on main/root menu entry and then user another method or two on top of that, so that is why I asked what you set and the outcome of your testing.

Thanks for the info on replicated setup, I found answer in AMIBCP shortly after I asked.
I will probably have test BIOS for you tonight to try, this may take us a few times to get things how you want them (If I can enable at all), so be ready for many tests. First will be enabling the menu's themselves, that might take a few tests/attempts w/ different methods.

For now, here is quick initial test with 3x Root Menus set to User via AMIBCP - do not expect them to be visible now, but we have to test this anyway first
https://nofile.io/f/1amkQQtPDfU/J52_0276...est-3x-User.zip

Flash using FPTw and the following command
fptw -bios -f J52_0276-AMIBCPTest-3x-User.BIN

If there is error when running that command please show image, thanks!