Oh, thank you. I'll be in touch.

I can't figure out the lock, sorry, there's too many other redundant BIOS protection locks also in there That just means you'll have to use programmer any time you want to write mod BIOS, not a big deal.
Once you get your programmer and get a verified dump, send it here and I'll redo the original mod again on your dump, that's better to do. Are you sure that's going to fix the issue?

Hello, well it's better to just use the programmer at this point anyway.

What I want to do is see what's the best hardware improvements I can do to this system. I thinking about HDD, RAM, CPU and GPU. The GPU, as the weaker point, it's the first thing I try to figure out.
I did before a eGPU installation to another Laptop. In that case the hotplug was also disabled but it does not have a while list. So all I had to do was put the cable and turn it on.

In this case the netbook have too many locks and also a white list (I guess) so when I tried the same method it does not recognize the eGPU installed.

Returning to the paper the best thing could be remove the white list so everytime I turn on the system it recognize the eGPU, in theory. When this is not posible the only option is enable the hot plug/hot swap. I tried this method before: https://egpu.io/­forums/­express...ore-tia­no/ but as you saw I was not able to modify anything.

If I manage to make the eGPU work I'll think about replacing the CPU. I have already injected microcodes in cases in which a CPU is compatible but the motheboard does not recognize it completely. Probably that is necessary in this case. Another thing that worries me about locks is the possibility of overclocking the CPU. Perhaps unlocking the BIOS can later review these settings, maybe SetFBS or the intel tool could work. Of course taking care of the cooling system.

I am also worried that in the same whitelist that I suppose there is also blocked the possibility of starting the computer using a different CPU. Experimenting with this could be tricky. Of course I say this because of the inconvenience that the CPU is BGA.

Having said all this, I believe that in an ideal world the BIOS should be unlocked with the deleted whitelist and all the possible CPU micro-codes injected for its architecture. To prove that all this will work I will need time and money to be able to afford the effort, so for now I only think about making the eGPU work. Without that I do not think I want to move forward or make any other adjustment to this device.

I find this project especially interesting because in my country hundreds of thousands of these devices were distributed. They are resold at very low cost and there are always many people trying to play with them as best as possible. If everything I think is going to work I can make a step-by-step guide for those more enthusiastic who want to do the same project and learn a lot in the process.

I think I'm on the right path thanks to you.

Could you tell me if there is a guide to better understand how to edit settings in the BIOS? I have an idea but I would like to know what is the procedure to be able to experiment with other adjustments in the future and help others as well.

I have no experience with eGPU? SO I can't help there. I can't really help with whitelist either, I read about it before and tried on one BIOS and was not able to see anything the guide showed me, so maybe wrong guide?
It was this guide - https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-G...rom-Insyde-BIOS And looking at it again, it wont help with this BIOS due to cannot open in EzH2O
I can usually follow along pretty well, so I was surprised when I couldn't do anything, I summed it up to maybe that guide or that particular BIOS. Do you know for sure this BIOS has a whitelist and I should look into that for you?

I don't know of any guide to edit settings in a BIOS like this, sorry. No GUI type BIOS tools I have found work on this BIOS either (AMI or Insyde ones) Only extract modules via UEFITool and then get IFR to view settings and edit via hex.

I guess there's a white list because when I tried to boot putting a different device in the minipcie port the port does not work. It does work just with the stock device. That's why I want to enable hot plug. I'll replace the device while the PC is on. Following guides and comments at egpu.io this seems to work.
If at the end we can just get the hot plug to work this project will be successful. But this must be a issue caused by a whitelist. I'll look for some info about that.

I'll try to understand the modules extraction method.

OK, I will see if I can do anything with the Whitelist on this system, hopefully it is not like the other one I mentioned previously!

I was able to open your BIOS region dump in one version of EZH2O, but was unable to find unsupported video or PCI (only unsupported video file types, formats etc). I also checked unsupported wireless to see, none found for that either.
I even searched for "halted" because this is shown to be present right before a whitelist (system halted, please remove etc) None found relating to hardware.

So, from what I can see, there is no whitelist, the part may simply be non-compatible.

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Oh, that's bad news. Well, I think I'll wait for the programmer and see if the hotplug works at the end.

I think it's good news really, from what I could tell, no Whitelist for wireless or GFX. Did you try different wireless too, if yes do you get "Halted - please remove device" error?

Today I tried with a diferent Wireless device. It works fine. No errors. Then I tried using the eGPU adapter with a GT610, not work. Also tried with another eGPU adapter and a Quadro 2000, not luck. I tried turning on the laptop with the eGPU pluging to the screen, sometimes having unpluged the GPU makes my PC boot using the iGPU instead of the dedicated card, but at this laptop it does not work.

I'm thinking in some posibilities here. 1) Maybe the port is locked to just be used with wireless devices (¿?), or 2) It is not compatible with the eGPU adapter board.

In a normal BIOS sometimes I can just choose the GPU that I want to be used in the settings, but even unlocking the BIOS i know that option will not be there. I think the hot-plug still have good chances to work if there's not way to figure out what's locking the eGPU.

Great you could test, see, I didn't find any wireless whitelist according to that easy guide method of checking, so I don't think there is PCIE one either. It could be in another module possible, but we check the "setup" text which contains all the possible error messages presented to user, and nothing about halt for PCI/PCIE device or wireless either.
I think there is no whitelist and maybe only issue is what you thought about hot-swap needs enabled. Sometimes those ports are not always wired the same, some PCIE traces may or may not be powered, or have different data traces to each finger etc.

Hopefully once you have programmer the hot-swap unlocked BIOS will help!

About that, the way of the pcie could be wired diferent, I see that one the wireless does not have all the traces, just what it need I guess. But the port have all of them. Maybe it is diferent anyway. I tried again the eGPU adapter in another laptop to see if it works fine, no problems.

Ill wait for the programmer, thats my only hope.

Yes, as you see, some Mini-PCIE are wired differently, even if all the traces are there sometimes they go to different place on certain boards.
Even on big brand desktop boards, sometimes mini_PCIE slot can only be used for certain things, SSD or wireless may/may not be interchangeable sometimes, same for some M.2 slots, some can only use SATA type and others only PCIE type while the slots/pinout is the same.
To me, both of those are poor design flaws, stuff like that should be a set standard or nothing, otherwise it causes customer confusion, frustration and sometimes fried hardware too.

Well, it takes some time but finally the kit is here. I hope I can do this bios mod now haha

I think I managed to make a correct dump, I'm not pretty sure since this is the first time I do it but there's it
https://mega.nz/#!rkAHgK7L!byWxmiqgEKFvx...AXnTTPdGGjpWNl0

edit: I guess I did it wrong, I'm trying to figure it out. The chip is a winbound 25q64fvsig, do you have some tip?

@idjaker - for W25Q64FV use W25Q64BV as the ID, and use software 1.30 or 1.34
Here is package with main driver, and then all versions of the software - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...257455007472602
I checked your dumps, neither of those are even correct BIOS size, so they are invalid based on that without even looking inside them - but then I looked anyway, all corrupted non-BIOS data, especially the 5.6MB file
Once it's working, you'll have an 8MB file, open that in hex and make sure it's not all FF or 00 (nor looks all similar, like same characters over and over again like the 5.6MB file you uploaded above)

Here is general how to use/set up guide, if you had not seen this already
https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-G...341A-programmer << Same as one directly below, but with all images expanded/visible at once
[GUIDE] Flash BIOS with CH341A programmer

What are we wanting to do now once you get proper dump? I tried to read back, but couldn't tell for sure. I know you want FPRR lock removed, and any other lock if I find, so you can flash easier with FPT instead of having to use programmer.
But, where were we at, stopped from doing before/during that discussion that made you get a programmer. Thanks for the catch up, sorry it's unclear to me right now.