@Lost_N_BIOS
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mC6MKu...htPUlmyV7DNAvxa
Here is the 8770w BIOS from which I extracted the PlatformSetup module.

What is the name or varname/varoffset of the item you unsuppressed? Or just both instances of mSATA?

Actually, here, this is best way to do it
Suppress If {0A 82}
0x1176D QuestionId: 0xD1 equals value 0x0 {12 06 D1 00 00 00} << Insert here 29 02
0x11773 One Of: mSATA, VarStoreInfo (VarOffset/VarName): 0x2EF, VarStore: 0x1000, QuestionId: 0x9D, Size: 1, Min: 0x0, Max 0x0, Step: 0x0 {05 A6 2F 01 11 00 9D 00 00 10 EF 02 10 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x11799 One Of Option: Change, Value (8 bit): 0x2 {09 0E C3 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x117A7 One Of Option: View, Value (8 bit): 0x1 (default) {09 0E C4 00 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x117B5 One Of Option: Hide, Value (8 bit): 0x3 {09 0E C5 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x117C3 End One Of {29 02}
0x117C5 End If {29 02} << Move this (ie delete in hex), Insert above, before "One Of: mSATA"

Same for the other one

Gray Out If {19 82}
0xF344 QuestionId: 0x9D equals value 0x1 {12 86 9D 00 01 00}
0xF34A QuestionId: 0xB0 equals value 0x0 {12 06 B0 00 00 00}
0xF350 And {15 02}
0xF352 End {29 02}
0xF354 Suppress If {0A 82}
0xF356 QuestionId: 0xD1 equals value 0x0 {12 86 D1 00 00 00}
0xF35C QuestionId: 0x9D equals value 0x3 {12 06 9D 00 03 00}
0xF362 QuestionId: 0xB0 equals value 0x0 {12 06 B0 00 00 00}
0xF368 And {15 02}
0xF36A Or {16 02}
0xF36C End {29 02} << Here, insert both removed 29 02's from below
0xF36E One Of: mSATA, VarStoreInfo (VarOffset/VarName): 0x368, VarStore: 0x1000, QuestionId: 0x3A, Size: 1, Min: 0x0, Max 0x0, Step: 0x0 {05 A6 2F 01 11 00 3A 00 00 10 68 03 04 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0xF394 One Of Option: Enable, Value (8 bit): 0x1 (default) {09 0E BF 00 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0xF3A2 One Of Option: Disable, Value (8 bit): 0x0 {09 0E C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0xF3B0 End One Of {29 02}
0xF3B2 End If {29 02} << Move this (ie delete in hex), Insert above, before "One Of: mSATA"
0xF3B4 End If {29 02} << Move this (ie delete in hex), Insert above, before "One Of: mSATA"

If you don't get what I mean, let me know and I will do the edits, and then show you after-edit IFR when I get back tonight.

*Edit @adrian_sa - I went ahead and did the edit real quick, here is the file and IFR - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...191987533220193
This is the PE32, extracted as-is via UEFITool, so you can put back in same way I extracted

Outcome is this, so that nothing is within the gray out/suppress

Gray Out If {19 82}
0xF344 QuestionId: 0x9D equals value 0x1 {12 86 9D 00 01 00}
0xF34A QuestionId: 0xB0 equals value 0x0 {12 06 B0 00 00 00}
0xF350 And {15 02}
0xF352 End {29 02}
0xF354 Suppress If {0A 82}
0xF356 QuestionId: 0xD1 equals value 0x0 {12 86 D1 00 00 00}
0xF35C QuestionId: 0x9D equals value 0x3 {12 06 9D 00 03 00}
0xF362 QuestionId: 0xB0 equals value 0x0 {12 06 B0 00 00 00}
0xF368 And {15 02}
0xF36A Or {16 02}
0xF36C End {29 02}
0xF36E End If {29 02}
0xF370 End If {29 02}
0xF372 One Of: mSATA, VarStoreInfo (VarOffset/VarName): 0x368, VarStore: 0x1000, QuestionId: 0x3A, Size: 1, Min: 0x0, Max 0x0, Step: 0x0 {05 A6 2F 01 11 00 3A 00 00 10 68 03 04 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0xF398 One Of Option: Enable, Value (8 bit): 0x1 (default) {09 0E BF 00 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0xF3A6 One Of Option: Disable, Value (8 bit): 0x0 {09 0E C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0xF3B4 End One Of {29 02}

And

Suppress If {0A 82}
0x1176D QuestionId: 0xD1 equals value 0x0 {12 06 D1 00 00 00}
0x11773 End If {29 02}
0x11775 One Of: mSATA, VarStoreInfo (VarOffset/VarName): 0x2EF, VarStore: 0x1000, QuestionId: 0x9D, Size: 1, Min: 0x0, Max 0x0, Step: 0x0 {05 A6 2F 01 11 00 9D 00 00 10 EF 02 10 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x1179B One Of Option: Change, Value (8 bit): 0x2 {09 0E C3 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x117A9 One Of Option: View, Value (8 bit): 0x1 (default) {09 0E C4 00 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x117B7 One Of Option: Hide, Value (8 bit): 0x3 {09 0E C5 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
0x117C5 End One Of {29 02}

Thanks man, unfortunately it's late here so I will try tomorrow. I tried to figure the IFR stuff myself but didn't understand the length part after the instruction. In donovan6000 guide the If statement would be 0A 03 00 but mine were 0A 82. If I got your edits right you made a empty container by moving that end if instructions.

You're welcome! Yes, @ket showed me this method, and it works best I think. You got it right, it moves the settings outside the suppress/gray if constraints, so nothing is contained within them we want enabled. You just have to make sure you remove same amount of bytes you insert when doing that
I used to edit by FF the entry value, similar to what you mentioned trying, like this >> Gray Out If {19 82} 0xF344 QuestionId: 0x9D equals value 0x1 {12 86 9D 00 FF 00}, which works, but not always and the other way I showed above is easier and a more clean method of doing it.

Suppress/Gray out If xx instructions can be any number of things, sometimes there is only true/false after that instead of questionID's or other values.
And sometimes true/false (46 02 / 47 02) have different values in different BIOS (27 02 / 28 02). So any guide may not apply always to all BIOS, you have to get inventive sometimes

Edits like these in IFR/hex can also be used to switch values, or switch default enabled/disabled settings or we can even hide things we want to disable too

Tried the new Setup module but the settings still don't stick. The mSATA setting in Security works but the mSATA setting in BuiltIn devices doesn't stick after exiting the BIOS.

https://i.postimg.cc/7YnGZ6d2/IMG-20181204-164854.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/gJLLzKbz/IMG-20181204-165106.jpg

I can't tell from the images, what are these settings exactly? And which do you need, set to what?

One Of: mSATA, VarStoreInfo (VarOffset/VarName): 0x2EF,
One Of Option: Change, Value (8 bit): 0x2 {09 0E C3 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
One Of Option: View, Value (8 bit): 0x1 (default) {09 0E C4 00 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00} << We can change this to one of the other by default, which do you want to be default here? Never mind, I see this is to allow edit of below option, correct?
One Of Option: Hide, Value (8 bit): 0x3 {09 0E C5 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}

And same, which do you want default here (The other I assume, maybe, disabled as default? It's enabled by default now, so maybe reverse psychology test to see if disabled will = enabled?)
One Of: mSATA, VarStoreInfo (VarOffset/VarName): 0x368
One Of Option: Enable, Value (8 bit): 0x1 (default) {09 0E BF 00 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
One Of Option: Disable, Value (8 bit): 0x0 {09 0E C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}

I checked the setting immediately following that, "Boost Converter" and I see it's enabled in IFR and shows checked in your image, like you'd expect the mSATA to look as well since it's also enabled in IFR - so I see what you mean.
Other modules may need swapped in too, but I wouldn't be sure what all that might entail, and swapping in other modules (This one too) may cause issues due to each BIOS has it's own Variable ID's for each setting that point to/invoke other BIOS modules, if incorrect that can't happen which is probably what's going on here since this was not in your BIOS to begin with.

I see questionID for the enable/disable above, matches original BIOS question ID for "Flash Reader" this could be causing the issue, not sure, but we can't do anything about this since mSATA not in your BIOS originally.
However, both VarStore/VariName for each mSATA setting is not used in the original module, so maybe instead of swapping in that module, we can add these settings into the original module.
Sometimes this is possible, other times it simply breaks the module no matter what, verified by 1KB messed up IFR output after edit. I will try working on this, and if I can get it I will let you know.

*Edit - no luck with that, no matter what I do it breaks IFR output at 72KB making only partial IFR output, even with header correct as is post-insert, size correction and header put back, checksum correction etc.
All same, tested both single setting insert and then both, so no go for that

Even the PlatformSetup module breaks my Windows boot, I have UEFI dual boot with grub2.
I tried adding HPVariables but that also didn't help. I would also have to solder wires to the pads to test the port because the SATA traces to the miniPCIe slot are missing solder bridges.
https://i.postimg.cc/bJxGFJqR/IMG-20181204-222124.jpg
The port that is missing is port2, it is mentioned in the original 2570P SMBIOS

https://i.postimg.cc/3w3zDfdJ/IMG-20181204-222603.jpg

I tried the PlatformSetup from the HP EliteBook 9470m, this time the mSATA setting appears without any IFR mods and I can enable it without problems and the change is persistent after reboot. I checked in Linux but still only three SATA ports as before. Also I tried booting Windows 10 now without grub2 but it still keeps sniping the dots forever. The PCIe and SATA configuration is stored in the FADT table? Since I'm already using setpci and grub2 to enable PCIe ASPM that would probably be a case of the the right bytes.

https://i.postimg.cc/Zb5d1WPW/Screenshot-20181204-232141.png

Did you try it unedited, it may break boot that way too, due to what I mentioned about the ID's and such, since it's not correct module for this BIOS.
Sorry, wrote that out before I read your second reply, that's great the other module works now for visible setting already and enable sticks!
Sorry, I am unable to advise on the rest of the stuff you mentioned Hopefully someone else will chime in that knows about those kind of edits.

Zitat von adrian_sa im Beitrag #9

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[quote=Lost_N_BIOS|p64660]
RSA is no problem, I messed a bit with IDA and the ErrorLog module and changed a jnz to jmp, the notebook booted with the mod.

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Zitat von gecko im Beitrag #25

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Zitat von adrian_sa im Beitrag #9

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[quote=Lost_N_BIOS|p64660]
RSA is no problem, I messed a bit with IDA and the ErrorLog module and changed a jnz to jmp, the notebook booted with the mod.

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I know this topic is already two years old. But can you maybe tell me more about how you solved the RSA part? I was about to send you a message instead of replying here, but I guess this could be very useful for others as well.

Thanks in advance!

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Looks like he edited the binary in IDA and changed the assembly code for a jump condition.

Zitat von HP_ThinksUrDumb im Beitrag #27

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Looks like he edited the binary in IDA and changed the assembly code for a jump condition.

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Zitat von sagael im Beitrag #28

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Do you know how i could do it with my hp laptop ?, i want to force the dedicated gpu

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