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Dec 2020

Does this work, if so you don’t need to edit BIOS >>
Enter BIOS via F2
Click >> More Settings
Hold FD + R then FN + N
Then quickly press F10 then save and exit, enter BIOS and see if unlocked?

@sergeyshibaev228 - OK, then we’ll see if we can unlock the menu
Flash this back via >> FPTw.exe -bios -f biosregm1.bin
Do you now see Power + Advanced?
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil…464213808416391

*** WARNING - To ANYONE with laptop and unlocked BIOS!!!
DO NOT try to enable this graphics card or disable that card, switch cards etc. Otherwise you will end up with no display output (ie black screen) and no way to recover except by blind flash or with flash programmer.
You can change graphics related settings, like changing memory sizes, or core speeds etc, just don’t try to disable one card or change which is main etc.

Additionally, be very careful when trying to undervolt CPU, you can leave BIOS unbootable due to CPU voltage too low (Sometimes even 0.05 is too much)

WARNING *** - This BIOS is user specific! If you are not user sergeyshibaev228 at Win-RAID.com forum, DO NOT USE THIS BIOS!!
If you do, and you are not sergeyshibaev228, then you will loose your serial, UUID, OG NVRAM, and possibly LAN MAC ID as well.
You have been warned!!!


@Lost_N_BIOS
Hi
Thank you very much for your help!
But I had a little problem, I exchanged that laptop for a laptop of the same model, as I got a defect with sound.
Here’s my new dump: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil…368456074155419
I can still write my dump via FPT
Hope for your understanding, thanks!

8 months later

Good afternoon.

I have a Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3i and I need to access the BIOS settings. The bios version is egcn34ww.

Could you teach me how to unlock these options or send me a file with the advanced option unlocked?

I thank the attention.

3 months later

Hello!
I need help unlocking additional features on the same laptop. Can you help me with this?

I really would like to know how this is done, since there are bios updates

thank you very much, I no longer hoped that something would help besides the programmer, but you saved me from unnecessary expenses

Обнаружилась проблема, с этим биос пропал сон, просто темный экран и не спит, можно это как-то вылечить?

Yes, the version is the same, but I broke my bios again and your recovery archive does not help

I can’t say anything about this. I did not touch the sleep state.

It means that BIOS has broken too much.

I can’t run the installation as described in the readme file from the archive, it just turns on, you don’t even need to press the power button as described in the file

I have a question, on the 7th point of the instructions, the laptop should not turn on itself when connecting the power cable?

It should not. But if it does, try without disconnecting and reconnecting the power cable. The instruction is pretty old.

I tried with the battery disconnected, with the power connected and without power, reformatted the flash drive probably 3-4 times. The laptop behaves in all cases the same as the first time, but this time it just refuses to flash.

But when I do everything according to the instructions and just don’t let go of the “fn + r” combination, then it just restarts

12 days later

Hello! help me with a similar problem on my ideapad gaming 3 i5. I wanted to return the factory bios after unlocked, but after reboot, just a black screen, no backlight.
I tried to flash a dump that was posted by other people on the forum for repair specialists, but it even turned out byte to byte the same as my dump from an already broken laptop.
sorry for using the translator.

UPD.: We managed to solve the problem by searching for a BIOS dump and then flashing it.

6 months later

@Sweet_Kitten @Lost_N_BIOS
An emergency call for help from a completely noob , I just joined this beautiful forum , I have IdeaPad Gaming 3 15IMH05 same as sergey … and I don’t know a thing about BIOS dump … but what I need is to unlock my BIOS (to change my S/N) … I have the results20.rar and vars.txt files because I tested it before …
So i will appreciate it if you guys helped me :heart:.

EDIT: I linked the guide for reading and learning, not to take guidance from other users HW and bios protected values examples, as its not equal to all.

Lets say, that what a beginner user calls bios/rom, in these days its more called an SPI FIRMWARE system image, so your system as most of all, have protected areas on it that doesnt allow some operations to be done.
And as a beginner that you are…be very careful as this is not common tools/operations risk safe, advanced user experience is a must, and the risk of fail operations is always present.

Thanks for sharing …
What is the EEPROM and is there a relation between it and the SPI firmware ?
(I’m beginner)

In the thread you shared , He said : “Notice that BIOS/UEFI is not locked by the Flash Descriptor and thus OEMs are responsible for implementing BIOS-specific read/write restrictions such as Protected Range Registers and so on. That means that the Flash Descriptor is not responsible for any read/write restrictions set at the BIOS/UEFI region of the SPI chip, so the FD-related methods below will not be of any assistance in such cases.”

and my problem here is the Protected Range Registers and the Flash Descriptor has nothing to do with it as he said , right ?

Correct me if I’m wrong ^^ .

Edit :

@MeatWar

Yeah , true …
I think I’ve to go to a technical support center to flash EEPROM (because I don’t have any programming chip + I can’t risk doing it myself).

But I wonder if there a way to change S/N in a low level (without flashing BIOS) where Windows can read it differently ?

Thanks…

5 months later