Oldie BIOS Request (HP/Insyde) using Xp pro

[remcon]

Hello to all,........Let me first take the opportunity to Thank you for Just being here. It's Good to know that someone will undertake this sometimes Pain in the A$$! Now on to business: I have a real problem with a several year old Bios (Insyde BIOS v 28.02.05---HP Ver. DI.M1.21--Address: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g...reg_R1002_USEN) for HP Pavilion Laptop n3310 (M/Board #31LTLMB0028 ) Main Problem: AGP Video is Shared.....Will ONLY go 4 or 8mb......NEED 16/32mb. Other Problems: Memory is limited to recognizing 256mb....Have 512mb chip in. Also put in new 80gb HardDrive w/16 mb cache, Not Recognizing. Thank you in Advance for any and all help! (Using XP Pro)

[Yen]

Hello to all,........Let me first take the opportunity to Thank you for Just being here. It's Good to know that someone will undertake this sometimes Pain in the A$$! Now on to business: I have a real problem with a several year old Bios (Insyde BIOS v 28.02.05---HP Ver. DI.M1.21--Address: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g...reg_R1002_USEN) for HP Pavilion Laptop n3310 (M/Board #31LTLMB0028 ) Main Problem: AGP Video is Shared.....Will ONLY go 4 or 8mb......NEED 16/32mb. Other Problems: Memory is limited to recognizing 256mb....Have 512mb chip in. Also put in new 80gb HardDrive w/16 mb cache, Not Recognizing. Thank you in Advance for any and all help! (Using XP Pro)

Please link direct to bios. If you want, download Phoenix bios editor at keznews and try by yourself editing. It is Phoenix bios, isn't it? I'm not sure if I'm able to help you.

Yen

[remcon]

Thanks for reply. BIOS is by a company called Insyde. Apparently they do laptop BIOSes for HP, Toshiba, etc. The link I put in IS the link Directly to the BIOS, if I understand you correctly. I have been "banging my head against the wall" for about 2 weeks on this.........Any Help would be Deeply Appriciated.

[remcon]

OK.........I just checked it out, and even though the address is correct where I downloaded the BIOS, you have to go in through Here: http://search.hp.com/query.html?qt=n3310&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&hpl=0&todo=search&searchcriteria=allwords&from=forums&searchcategory=ALL&rn=25&presort=rank&source=7000&esc=support.itrc.hp.com&wpa=forums1.itrc.hp.com%3A80&origin=0&chkServStor=onhttp://forums.mydigitallife.info/images/smilies/redface.gif
:o Sorry for any misunderstanding.

[Yen]

I've got bad news:

Btw: full link to bios is: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?os=19&softwareitem=ob429en&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=61772&lang=en
You cut the end;) This was what I meant with direct link to bios.....

I extracted this bios to a floppy. Resulting bios file was QT3C71.ROM.

Tried all available tools to open. No success. This must be a special bios. No ordinary Phoenix, Award, AMI......

Sorry there is nothing I can try.....:(

Yen

[remcon]

Even though it is dissapointing, and frustrating, I really appriciate you giving it a shot. I am stiil dilligently looking for some type of Decompiler for this. if you think that it could do Some good. Any other suggestions would be appriciated. Again, Thanks

[taninao]

hi....someone gave me an n3310 notebook, same problems as yours, you can flash original bios i posted at www.driverguide.com bringing it up from 1.12 to the last bios hp wrote to 1.21 version, i am running 2 x 128 ram but also would like to go higher
if you find a bios recomplier to recog a 40 gig hitachi i have LET ME KNOW I HAVE SAME PROBLEM!!! 40 gig will not post, "auto detect ide devices" and machine freezes, works fine in another machine.....thanks in advance..
i think what i am going to do is just do an external usb 30, or 40 gig hard drive and run it all from there, used on ebay for about $35....
ALSO BE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST DRIVERS!!!
e.g., for the VIA ide bus controller, your 02micro cardbus controller, intel chipset, and trident video, then there is the modem and audio too.....just to name a few... unit will run much better, i am doing winxp on mine as a spare machine...but remember not to spend too much effort or money on a 7 year old laptop running a 500 megahertz processor, hardware is going to limit your tweaks anyway...enjoy!!!

[striker]

I've got bad news:

Btw: full link to bios is: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?os=19&softwareitem=ob429en&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=61772&lang=en
You cut the end;) This was what I meant with direct link to bios.....

I extracted this bios to a floppy. Resulting bios file was QT3C71.ROM.

Tried all available tools to open. No success. This must be a special bios. No ordinary Phoenix, Award, AMI......

Sorry there is nothing I can try.....:(

Yen

i have prsesario v6604au notebook with vista basic preinstalled can i have modded bios for slp1.0 to activate xp professional, i hope you can help me. Thanks

[fisherman]

Thanks for reply. BIOS is by a company called Insyde. Apparently they do laptop BIOSes for HP, Toshiba, etc. The link I put in IS the link Directly to the BIOS, if I understand you correctly. I have been "banging my head against the wall" for about 2 weeks on this.........Any Help would be Deeply Appriciated.

I caught this thread a wanted to share some info I have dug up on these Insyde BIOS machines.

I have a Toshiba A65 that uses one of these. When you boot into the BIOS, you what looks like a black and white screen with TABable fields covering 2 pages. I think this is the way Insyde does their bioses (No normal BIOS menus).

(taniano)
I've read that some of these actually require specific IDE drive settings in order to post. Also, Some of them only have a single controller for both the cd and internal drive and require specific master/ slave and single master etc. settings.

If your IDE drive doesn't post, try every master/slave jumper setting on the drive with and without the cd/dvd before giving up. It might work.

Regarding the SLIC for Windows XP, Toshiba has a utility that lets you edit the DMI in their laptops. This is because some of their XP restore DVD's won't restore unless you manually edit the DMI in the laptop first.
Perhaps these problems are common across other companies that use this Insyde bios.

It might be possible to edit the DMI with ACPISCOPE or something similar.

NOTE: I have no experience on other brand laptops that use Insyde, Only the Toshiba A65.

BE CAREFUL WHEN EXPERMENTING ON THESE MACHINES DUE TO THE VERY POOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT FROM HP AND TOSHIBA.
Not doing so could cost you.
Good luck

[westmassguy]

Hello to all,........Let me first take the opportunity to Thank you for Just being here. It's Good to know that someone will undertake this sometimes Pain in the A$$! Now on to business: I have a real problem with a several year old Bios (Insyde BIOS v 28.02.05---HP Ver. DI.M1.21--Address: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g...reg_R1002_USEN) for HP Pavilion Laptop n3310 (M/Board #31LTLMB0028 ) Main Problem: AGP Video is Shared.....Will ONLY go 4 or 8mb......NEED 16/32mb. Other Problems: Memory is limited to recognizing 256mb....Have 512mb chip in. Also put in new 80gb HardDrive w/16 mb cache, Not Recognizing. Thank you in Advance for any and all help! (Using XP Pro)

No amount of BIOS modding will ever give you what you're looking for.
Memory limitations are a function of the motherboard and chipset, not the BIOS. All chipsets have a finite amout of memory they can address. Older chipsets for socket 7/super socket 7, like the one in your notebook typically topped out at 128, 256, or 384. The hard drive limitation is a bit different. Some manufacturers released BIOS which tricked the chipset/IDE controller into thinking there were fewer heads/cylinders then there actually were, and allowed larger hard drives to be used. 30 gigs is probably the largest drive that notebook will "see".