Hi,

I bought a dead Lenovo Thinkpad T440P recently. It sounded an error message of 5 beeps, pause, 5 beeps. A BIOS flash to a BIOS downloaded from Lenovo via external SPI programmer fixed it (I dumped and reflashed the 4mb chip).

I have now found that the machine doesn’t have a Windows key attached to it, but I am unsure if it was somehow corrupted, or if it wasn’t present to begin with.

I was wondering if it was possible to extract the Windows product key from the original corrupted BIOS if it’s present, or repair the corrupted BIOS so that Windows can be activated? I am unsure of the version of the original corrupted BIOS. I can send over the original corrupted BIOS, and a copy of the current working BIOS, both dumped via SPI.

Thanks!

Send me the files and I will check

PM sent

@rage06 - Yes, there is keys/SLIC in both BIOS you sent. Here, try this BIOS, put on with flash programmer - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...638223262987447
This is your original bricked dump, but with the working main BIOS volume replaced from the current working one (ie all old NVRAM/EVSA areas are there now, which look OK, only the main BIOS volume looked corrupted)

You may need to put .XRM-MS certificate file from Lenovo into root of C drive and then manually force activation via CMD line. Info on this below, general examples from first google results
http://www.squidworks.net/2015/03/how-to...oem-activation/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/commen...ey_in_bios_and/
https://superuser.com/questions/539714/w...-oem-activation

Thank you Lost_N_BIOS! It worked. Windows is now activated after forcing activation via CMD. Thank you so much!

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #4

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@rage06 - Yes, there is keys/SLIC in both BIOS you sent. Here, try this BIOS, put on with flash programmer - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...638223262987447
This is your original bricked dump, but with the working main BIOS volume replaced from the current working one (ie all old NVRAM/EVSA areas are there now, which look OK, only the main BIOS volume looked corrupted)

You may need to put .XRM-MS certificate file from Lenovo into root of C drive and then manually force activation via CMD line. Info on this below, general examples from first google results
http://www.squidworks.net/2015/03/how-to...oem-activation/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/commen...ey_in_bios_and/
https://superuser.com/questions/539714/w...-oem-activation

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@rage06 - You're welcome! Awesome to hear all is working properly now, and you were able to sort windows activation out too
Thanks for quick report back!

here ok bios