HP DV Series Whitelist BIOS hack Options

[LRZRAGE]

OK everybody... anybody using the patched F53 Bios for the HP DV9000/6000 (I believe) .. you may have noticed that there is a new one out F.58A. Well I am glad to say that it is successfully patched. With the guidance of kevd_hackins post and the initial doctor j one, I was able to patched the newest one F.58A.. I also added in a nice little mac apple instead of the HP INVENT at the begging of your BIOS. This will allow ANY wireless cards!! I just got my broadcom card today, flashed my bios, saw my nice little apple at boot up and bam i was in OS X with browsin the internet on my new broadcom card. Goodbye 104 Unsupported error message.. lol... anyways.. the linked BIOS contains version F.58A and has a apple logo (if you would like the original HP invent, PM and i can make arrangements).

1. Download the F.58A bios update from HP and go ahead and install.
2. Stop after install and do NOT flash
3. Exit out and go to C:\SwSetup\SP36774. (this sp number will be different for different BIOS)
4. Edit the phlash.ini (either under swinflash(32bit system) or Winphlash64 (64bit system)
4a. Under the [UI].. set hideall=0 and add in Advanced=1.
5. Right click the flash.exe and run as administrator and this will allow you to specify the BIOS (swinflash.exe=32bit and winphlash64.exe=64bit)
6. Choose the patched bios that you downloaded.( .WPH file) (Vista users might have to disable UAC)
7. Flash and let your laptop shutdown
8. After the laptop has shutdown completely, wait a little bit and then hit the power button
9. Boot into OS X and if your card is OS X friendly, you might have to add it in through Network under system prefs.

Enjoy

If you have a DV series laptop and you are having problems with the dreaded 104 unsupported error message. Post here with your bios version, Ven ID, Dev ID, and subsys ID of your original wifi card and I might be able to help you out.


**EDIT** - I have patched the original F.58A bios to bypass the whitelist and left the original HP Invent by request. Enjoy! (Labeled HP 30CCF58A)

**EDIT** - The BIOS F.29 for the DV6000t system(intel) is patched and can be located here - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=124283

**EDIT** - F.59A is now out. I have done the same patch to it as I did the F.58A. I haven't had a chance to test it out on my system yet. But I don't think it should cause any problems, nothing changed in regards to stopping the whitelist check.

Attached File(s)

 30CCF58.rar ( 677.04K ) Number of downloads: 505
 HP_30CCF58A.rar ( 686.94K ) Number of downloads: 696
 30CCF59_patched_.rar ( 685.98K ) Number of downloads: 653

 

[Richthofen]

Has anyone (other than the original poster) confirmed that this BIOS is working?

[SticMAC™]

Can confirm it works!

It's not the greatest logo in the world, so if you can make one with the old one, it would be nice!?

But the bottom line is it works, i stuck the card of my old Acer in which previously gave me "the Error" and it works!

My original card however works without a patch so I'm going to flash it again with the original BIOS!

SticMAN

Has anyone (other than the original poster) confirmed that this BIOS is working?