Hello!! I have a Lenovo Legion T730-28ICO, which uses a lenovo made z370 motherboard, Lenovo has the motherboard completely locked down, they have little to no BIOS options, and you cannot change the memory voltage or apply an XMP profile through windows. I was hoping either just to get everything unlocked, or get it unlocked and also add the overclocking and XMP options. But worst case scenario just getting it unlocked so I can apply an XMP profile would be really nice. I bought RAM on cyber Monday but aam unable to run it at the right speeds :-(. A gentleman tried to help me on the bios-mods forum, he told me I needed a reader to retrieve the bios as it was locked, so I purchased one and was able to get the bios dump, however he mentioned its a newer AMI bios and that isn't his specialty and He recommended I come here as you are better equipped in this area :-) . Please help!! and Thank You for reading ^_^

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ytihcm7jpufzz...laBJ2D5cRa?dl=0 <--- images of bios

attaching bios dump in this post

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Bump, plz help!

Slow down, bumping threads doesn't help anything here

Please wait, I will look at your BIOS Meantime, I need you to give me images of your BIOS in a zip, please show me one image of each main BIOS page.

Thank you! Here you go:

Thanks - Never mind previous comment that was here if you saw it, I forgot you had programmer

Please wait, let me see what's going on in there

* edit @Motion - What error did you get when trying to use FPT here? I don't see anything stopping you, did you guys try it when you were checking things out at bios-mods?
It would be best, if you can use FPT, so lets check that out, so I can unlock it if possible in the BIOS I send you to program back in.
That way if more than one test BIOS is needed before final, and I usually send three to start with before I even start actual mod, that way you don't have to keep using programmer.

he had me run BACKUP_Tools19n , and it creates a folder with results, posting the results here, have to split it up though as its 9mb all together

Sorry, heres the other parts, going to try to follow the steps you posted

Edit* I'm not seeing the option to "open command window"

Edit 2* I apologise for my ignorance but I dont know what FPT is

Please read what I mentioned in the spoiler for Win10 Admin CMD, you'll need to do one of the fixes mentioned there to add back Admin CMD since they removed it
I suggest the last link registry fix, then you only have to right click anywhere you want and open one no shift or anything needed.
You may need to reboot after you merge the registry file.

I can't do split files with the way this forum downloads things to users (random garbage names). Please upload as single package to here http://tinyupload.com/

FPT is what you are trying to use (Intel Flash Programming tool). You can wait on this if you want, what I need to know may be in your "results" stuff

Trying command fix, did you take a look at the files he had me create? doesn't give you what you need?

Yes, see my edit above, sorry, I removed that part of my comment early on, guess you caught it

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=52739380549097478656 Sorry Just saw the tiny upload message, here's that results file

Edit: Posted the error i got after following your steps

Thanks, you do not need programmer from what I see in those results. The only thing I see stopping you from FPT flash is error 368 (BIOS Lock), which you can easily disable on your end using grub and setup_var, I made a guide for that here

BIOS Lock, VarStoreInfo (VarOffset/VarName): 0x998 << This is what you edit if you use the above guide

Rename your .efi file to >> Shell.efi

At grub prompt you type the following (case sensitive) >> setup_var 0x998 0x0

Ahh, the "Launch EFI Shell from filesystem device" is on the hidden exit page of your BIOS, you'll have to use this method to get to grub (unless you already know how to from other uses)
Alt boot to grub when no boot to EFI on exit page - [Help needed] Hidden Advanced menu Bios HP Z1 J52_0274.BIN (2)

I'll disable this in the first mod BIOS I send you, then after that we can flash via FPT instead, that way you aren't risking anything with the programmer and it will last you longer.
The cheap clips can only be used so many times before they wont grip BIOS, so less you use the better

* Edit - to your edit above, yes, that's same I see in the results info.

Ahhh, Okay, I'll wait until i receive the mod BIOS before attempting the steps you sent. Also I don't think I've ever used Grub

OK. Some people use grub for various things, so thought maybe you've used it for something.

Once I send you a mod BIOS, program it on, then try the FPT dump/write again to confirm I removed BIOS lock

Okay, to load the mod bios do i just connect to the chip like i did to copy the data, then just overwrite the information with the file you give me? Or do i need to clear the chip then load the mod bios

You will erase, then blank check, then open BIOS file and write/verify
What is your BIOS chip ID? And what software version did you dump the BIOS with?