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    news sony vaio | bios related | enable features

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by evilaliv3, Sep 11, 2008.

  1. evilaliv3

    evilaliv3 Notebook Enthusiast

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    the new sony vaios (like sr and fw but i think others) have no phoenix bios;

    they have an ami aptio bios
    whit an official utility [for dos, win, win64 ecc] there is the possibility to extract rom and reflash [i've done it], but i did not find an utility to modify options

    sony disables vt and also some other features, anybody know what tool we can use? i cant' find the latest mmtool, i think people shuld pay to have it


    anybody has found something ?
     
    evilaliv3, Sep 11, 2008
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  2. Rascal

    Rascal Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am also looking for it.
    Sony block the beauty of VT and interrupt me to install 64bit Guest on my 64bit host.
    If anyone find a way for my SR-VGN13GN with Aptio AMI Bios, please share me.
     
    Rascal, Jan 10, 2009
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  3. pardes3

    pardes3 Notebook Evangelist

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    don't the Z series have bios called "insyde H20 ?
     
    pardes3, Jan 10, 2009
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    Zcar Zcomp Notebook Geek

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    have a z590 its
    h20
     
    Zcar Zcomp, Jan 11, 2009
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  5. arth1

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    It's H2O as in water, not h20...
     
    arth1, Jan 11, 2009
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