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    Sony VGN-AR760U - RAID - BIOS hacking?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by hippotek, Dec 28, 2010.

  1. hippotek

    hippotek Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi everyone!

    I have a VGN-AR760U which comes, like all AR, with two HDD bays. As far as I know all other AR allow the two HDDs to be configured as a raid (0 or 1) but for some reason unknown, this particular model has no "Raid Configuartion" in the Advanced menu of the bios... I believe all AR 7xx (and even older or more recent ARs) have essentially the same motherboard, so the raid functionality might be just disabled through some register in the BIOS...

    Problem is: There is no BIOS update for the later AR, so I cannot extract the .WPH file from it to analyze it and the backup I made with BIOS backup Toolkit seems to be "incomplete" in comparison to and older AR BIOS (mine is R2080J8)...

    Has anybody ever successfully managed to reintegrate a backup bios to reflash it?

    Has anybody crossflashed a BIOS from a later AR?
    What is the "latest" AR BIOS out there? Anybody with a 890?
     
    hippotek, Dec 28, 2010
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  2. samozen

    samozen Notebook Consultant

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    samozen, Jan 3, 2011
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  3. samozen

    samozen Notebook Consultant

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    hi all,
    i have send it to service and with luck maybe next week i will get it back .i have contacted vaio supp and they say that they can not send me the bios file.i do not know why?do you think that the motherboard breaked or something else because i flashed with breaked bios.i hope it will not coast a lot.thanks to all.good luck
     
    samozen, Jan 7, 2011
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  4. beaups

    beaups New Jack Hustler

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    Did AR ever ship with Windows 7? I'm pretty certain the AR760 was a Vista machine, and I'm pretty sure this forum is not the proper place to discuss Win7 pirating via SLIC hacks.
     
    beaups, Jan 21, 2011
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  5. Kdawgca

    Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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    SLIC is used to bypass windows activation for Windows 7. That is piracy which is prohibited by the forum rules, so thread closed.

    SLIC posts have been deleted.

    If you feel that you are entitled to windows 7, contact Sony or Microsoft. If you feel that Sony gave you an "incomplete" notebook, contact them.
     
    Kdawgca, Jan 21, 2011
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