mod whitelist for new compaq wirless (104 error)

[rgkau78]

I've read enough now that I feel halfway comfortable modding the bios whitelist for new wifi card.

 

Computer: Compaq v3015nr w/ AMD64x2, winXP home, bios F.39 (flashed sucessfully from HP site last week).

current card: 802.11b/g broadcom 14E4 4311 1363103C

new card: 802.11b/g/n Gigabyte 1814 0681 E9391458

 

I have bios editor, hex editor, and have experimented doing all the changes. Right up to the burn. I'm ready but have cpl questions first.

 

1. In case I fail I need to be ready with recovery plan. I have usb floopy and recovery files. Does the bootable floppy have to be made from dos? If so can it be done from dos window? If not how do I boot to dos?

 

2. Somewhere I read that some laptops have bios "boot fail recovery" disabled. From my bios open in multiboot III view, this feature has no symbol in the "value" field. The others with no symbol are "floppy check" and "boot from floppy". All others have an asterik or some value. I assume this means "boot fail recvery" and "boot from floppy" are enabled, and that I do not need to change. Am I correct?

 

3. Whitelist is in mod_5100.rom. Do I need to verify size is same after mod? If its not what should I do.

 

4. Some have said whitelist bios mods don't work on AMD based systems. Any truth?

 

5. Since Im using winxp home, I assume I use winplash, not winplash64 (confusing since I have AMD 64x2 processor). Is this correct?

 

If anyone knows of a 802.11N pcie card that will work on my system, I'll buy it, so I don't risk the brick.

 

any other suggestions are appreciated.