HP EliteBook 9470m, Scrambled BIOS - LFC

More BIOS stuff today, this EliteBook doesn't post and needs it's BIOS to be reconstructed!
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[@Ale.K7]

Yes to sponsors! I miss pendrives with activity LEDs... I found them super useful. Computer cases without HDD activity LEDs or reset switches make me sad.

[@mqcapps]

Sponsorship is ok...nothing wrong with making an honest living

[@01bytor70]

Dude, you have loads of patience and talent. I’m in IT for medical manufacturing plus I build and repair PCs on the side. Your videos have taught me so much. You’re a credit to the industry. :)

[@luke27luis]

I have to say that, after two whole years of me trying to fix one of these computers which had a blinking charge light (white-orange) and no power, which for me seemed like a power failure all that time, it has turned out to also be a scrambled BIOS. After spending almost a hundred hours of tinkering (and learning a lot of it), a cheap ch341 programmer and your video has been the solution. Thanks a lot, Graham! You earned yourself a Patron 😊

[@MeneGR]

My 2c about the sponsorship: It's all about the presentation! From our past experience, I trust that you won't make it boring or fake, so why not!

[@Adamant_IT]

Agreed. My thoughts were that doing the read in person while I take covers off (a section I usually fast forward) avoids a fairly jarring cut-to-commercial, and keeps it nice and unobtrusive, but also people aren't missing any 'content' if they skip forward to when the covers are off.

[@ThePhoenix198]

@@Adamant_IT And there was I hoping for a few Linus-styles segues 🙃

[@Mrtsiourtos]

You need to press and hold B key and then press the power on button to boot in bios mode but before that you should disconnect bios battery and check.

[@mathewjones9547]

Hey man! Love the work as always, Sponsors are all good, YT Run them all the time so go for it!

[@bobw9733]

Yes, absolutely go with a sponsor. You have overcome the key concern I have with many sites that are sponsored which is that the product/service is actually not very good but promoted anyway. Providing you are happy with the quality of the product/service, go for it.

[@MrUnderspell]

+1

[@barrywaddington3195]

Fully understand the need for ads. However, if you could add a skip point or leave a banner on screen while running, that would allow us to choose whether to watch it. Thanks mate. Keep up the great work.

[@tirisiclaudiu7672]

You can use the sponsor block extension to get skip points

[@deralchemist1990]

Mate, you pour so much effort and dedication into these videos. You are always taking the 'hard' route in order to make your content informative and valuable for the viewers. Please, go ahead and take up any sponsor deal you feel comfortable with. I will gladly watch it knowing, that you get at least a small bit back.

[@ryanfregger3290]

If you do something like audible, ifixit, coffee, or something to that extent I'm all for it

[@NightDoge]

Ifixit would be on brand for a comouter repairshop

[@larryfoster423]

@Adamant IT For you to talk about sponsors the way you asked us is refreshing. You are a most honest KZbinr and any sponsor you choose would be a good one. Promoting products you would use or advise us to use would be acceptable. Run your business like you will sir, we are not worried about it

[@gower1973]

Surprised I haven`t seen an advert for PCBWay! They are on every other channel, I know more about that company than I ever needed to know

[@FindLiberty]

AWESOME - this BIOS Challenge made me squirm 'till you got it working! Great job.

[@cj386.]

This video came at just the time I needed. I'm trying to do a bios mod on my HP z440 and I am trying to move the system info over to the mod bios I downloaded. This video helped me a lot! Thanks!

[@elizabethtorres6069]

You got this Graham, you have never given up in locating the problem on a laptop.. I like these types of complicated situations, because it teaches us, to explore other possibilities, and in searching sometimes, we find the real problem, and not what we thought. So I have complete confidence in you. 😁💻

[@new-b-gamerz3581]

Your channel is the best IT repair channel on this entire KZbin. You deserve so much more subscribers and yes please take all the sponsors you can get! A business is a business and you have got to pay the bills. Keep on doing what you are doing. I am an system engineer myself but as you know, you learn every day something new and i learned a lot from you! Big fan.

[@blockbuster9065]

Thanks a lot! Hp 450 g4 had corrupt bios and now it works again🎉

[@azuararuiz]

Thank you very much for sharing sir. Please keep showing us the way, we take care of walking it because it is the only way to know if it is winding or flat.

[@alargebeaver]

Very cool! Thank you for bringing me along!

[@ezequielortiz4188]

I would say you're pretty good in what you do, keep learning & improving each day, there's always something new to learn, knowledge is power!

[@train4905]

Absolutely superb graham,well done

[@shastrichandoo817]

Awesome video sir. Your videos give my confidence to continue and keep getting better...cheers bro

[@michaelthompson9798]

I would support adverts as long as they are relatable to the channel 👍🥰😇

[@mbwatson1000]

You are far braver than me in soldering on multi-layer boards. I've worked with computers since the 1970s, and am quite up to date with technology, but had to give it all up due to poor health. But, I still like to maintain my computers and those of a few friends, so I definitely like to keep abreast of tech. I could have worked out the bios content needed, but would not have gone to bios chip removal etc. so would have been stumped at that point - especially as I only have a basic soldering iron and have no intention of investing in more tools which I have little need for. I enjoy repairing computers, and given that I cannot do it today due to ill health, I will instead appreciate watching someone else at work who does a proper, professional job like yourself. Keep up the good work!

[@DJSammy69.]

This deep dive into bios is very interesting.

[@garymetcalfe3260]

Brilliant Graham👍🏽yes to sponsors

[@souhaibmehellou9890]

Nice and very clean work 👍

[@elizabethtorres6069]

🎈I told you, you had this Graham! This kind of repair is a level, I do not know.. Let a computer professional like Graham take care of it, until I learn how. Thank you Graham, for a interesting video, and BIOS complications that had my head spinning.🤯💻 You are definitely the man.

[@CliveTrezona]

Great repair. Well done.

[@curtiskorb3494]

I run my own little fix it shop out of my garage in Minnesota, fixing laptops and cars and stereos, TVs, anything. People always ask me, "How are you so SMART?!" I always tell them, "I'm not smarter than you, I'm just better at Google and KZbin, and have more practice."

[@ricknas5704]

I would be happy to hear about sponsors in your channel. First because your videos are very instructive and you deserve to earn more from them and second because I am sure you will filter the sponsors and only send the good stuff towards us :)

[@naserthephotographer5077]

Amazing Job ! and well done from Morocco

[@johnhagen31]

Nobody likes adverts, but you absolutely need them. There is nothing at all wrong with running a business and making money. Have the sponsorship up-front like you suggested. Your work is appreciated!

[@Darren777Au]

Another educating video with humour. thank you.

[@thevindictive6145]

Dude, you can advert anything. I am learning so much from your videos and its all so interesting.

[@johnyoung6771]

Very informative video. Thank You

[@skysurfhf]

Very well ... Greatings from Portugal 🇵🇹 🌟

[@MCgranat999]

Thank you for showing me this tool. I'm currently trying to bring back all the info from the corrupted bios of the machine I repaired by flashing a clean one. Even better that this tool works on Linux

[@tomasmolina8617]

Yes, sponsor it just fine it is an incentive for the great work you are doing, Great insight on the configuration of bios file.

[@Sadman1471]

I'm happy with sponsor read during the disassembly process

[@jonathane9403]

I trust your integrity and judgement in sponsoring products. You should be compensated for the effort you generate in providing interesting and helpful content.

[@wprivera]

I love it when you win!

[@nickhammond2134]

Go for all the content appropriate sponsors you can get! Loving your work, its inspiring me to begin electronics (hobby level).

[@baddegg9971]

Yep go for it!! might as well get some pocket money for your time , and yet another great video.

[@f3rns]

Go sponsors. Loved the video, amazing skills man. That advice at the end I’ll take it to heart.

[@keithlambell1970]

Amazing BIOS repair skills

[@miguelfernandez2325]

Wow well done man. Learned a lot from this video.

[@computersrepaircotesaint-l7407]

BEST VIDEO FOR BIOS RECOVERY THANK YOU

[@carlynmartin3886]

You do you dude it won't stop me from watching.

[@sp_charles24]

I'm really surprised that just before 1 hour I completed the same laptop HP Elitebook 9470m with a BIOS flash to remove the BIOS password in order to reinstall the windows which was corrupted. And just opened the youtube and saw this video and felt wow, Admant also troubleshooted same laptop. I was really enjoying this video cause I have completely removed the laptop and took the motherboard out for BIOS flash. The matter is I spent for 2 days in working with BIOS, flashing, then reflashing more than 6 times and finally before one hour I completed and now I have a complete business class laptop as Adamant said. Actually, I didn't think this laptop as high grade before Adamant emphasized it.

[@kztech1319]

The documentation on these HP laptop's BIOS recovery procedure is all over the place, but most of the time you have to hold down Windows + B or V key and then hold the power button for 2 seconds for it to initiate fail safe BIOS recovery...

[@Doman2000]

For me the BIOS recovery procedure worked on a HP Envy4 only when i removed the internal HDD/SSD.

[@jonathanhawken2081]

anything that keeps you going and the videos coming

[@laboratorioassembler]

I made a tool to view window's serial directly from dump.. when I have it I print it and stick it on the back of the laptop :)

[@hugosimoes5119]

For sponsors, do like "My Mate Vince" where he speaks about his list of fans when he sees that a task is about to be long like unscrewing a back cover or so.

[@reggiedixon2]

Vince gave a shout-out to Graham in his last MacBook video

[@hugosimoes5119]

@@reggiedixon2 Yes. About the capacitor. Louis Rossmann, AdamantIT, Paul Daniels(?) mentioned the model had that specific issue and replacing the capacitor will revive the MacBook again.

[@arijitbrahma]

Sponsorship is a sure thing to get as they will help your channel to grow. Thats nice of you asked us its alright or not. Yes to sponsorships! I did repair a HP pavilion 15-bs series laptop that belongs to my brother. The bios was a 8mb flash dump. I downloaded the exe from hp website and there was an option to extract the bios, I got a maching bios file which was 8 mb and no serial written on that. I flashed that into the laptop and the laptop worked. To revive the serial number and other details I opened up the original bios dump in hex workshop and serched for the serial number as text, I found the user area where all the serial number mac id uuid were written and in just next block found the windows licence key. I copied everything and pasted them into the same area of the fresh bios I got from the exe file. The informations were restored. All I needed to do was to relock the manufacturing programming mode which is used to program the serial number in factory. As the bios had no information written on it the programming mode was unlocked. I relocked the manufacturing programming mode using hp bios config utility after booting up the windows. Its been two years the laptop is working fine.

[@DatzBunz]

Love the outro!

[@kanistas]

I like that you are down to earth and not a sell out. What I am referring to is youtube is full of creators that out extravagant voices (as compared to their first videos) and stupid skits, all gringe worthy...

[@dennissmithjr.5370]

Great video, this is something I would never attempt. Take all the sponsors you need, you are in business after all.

[@beogeek]

15:03 LOL just worked on a Dell XPS 13 9300 which has 5 BIOS chips on it! That ElitebOOK is a walk in the park! Good work mate.

[@benefitthirteen]

An appropriate one minute ad? Absolutely.

[@Simon-mz7sf]

Gday go for it re sponsors. If it helps with the bills and interesting, then all the better. Great video and a real eye opener in the bios file structure of these type of LT’s and traps on replacing an existing bios set. Appreciated

[@izigswe]

Go for the sponsorship. We had a lot of these back in the days, HP replaced the mainboard when this happend. I still have mine and use it sometimes, i like the formfactor.

[@shiftctrlhack]

Make your money man! We trust and support you.

[@DKTAz00]

14:20 I've been repairing 2002-2005 thinkpads lately just for fun, and I must say, god damn that generation is lovely to work on. Screws are all labeled on the back, which size goes where, and a handy little chart for figuring out which screw you have in hand. Absolutely brilliant. Dont know anything after the T40/R51 generation though :p

[@firephone831]

Hey G.Lord. Great video as always. A word to the wise HP Bios upgrade procedure Insert the USB flash drive with the BIOS file into an available USB port on the notebook. Press and hold the Windows + B keys, and then simultaneously press and hold the power button. Use USB with indicator lights .

[@Garrietodd73]

great work

[@Cccoast]

Perfect advertising strategy! Awesome awesome awesome content. You’re Dependable and trustworthy. I would trust your endorsement.

[@mohammadhafiz4202]

very informative videos. thanks for your effort!

[@YEH-]

I salute you for thinking about actually good value sponsoring and not just monetization

[@TheSod70]

It's a perfect spot for a sip of coffee and a sponsor plug.

[@josephgrondin9081]

I trust whatever you pick to promote will be good. You deserve to get some extra coin for your videos, you produce great content

[@Martin2112]

Perfectly happy with sponsors Graham, would never begrudge you making some extra cash :)

[@faenorsjewel5618]

Loved da ending innit

[@tripplehelix]

More than happy to hear about more UK based coffee roasters!

[@lawrencecavens5760]

Here's a tip for you of when or if you need to sort out a bios rebuild - Have 3 windows open to organize and separate old from new to rebuild that way you know what is where and you don't become confused as I found it quite nerve stressing - if you write over the old and accidentally put it back and get it mixed up then a BIG oops and you have no original file what was there before to fall back on.

[@randomised414]

You are amazing. Love your videos ❤

[@xisplo]

quick tip for hp, i believe enterprise only, devices to update SN, and so on: After entering BIOS Setup by hitting the ESC key, and then selecting the F10 option from the menu, press Ctrl+A to open additional fields in Security>System IDs menu. You can change/enter your PC's serial number in Asset Tag Number and Chassis Serial Number in the applicable fields. You can find this info on the rear cover.

[@moonrock41]

"Tasteful, not really gross" sounds good to me. I can always hit the right arrow on my keyboard a few times to fast forward if I need to.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

A great job well done.

[@Pevi70]

Wow, learned a lot from this, thanks!

[@Trace-T]

I wouldn’t mind seeing Sponsors on your channel. Whatever helps you earn more money and keep the channel going is fine by me.

[@2009numan]

great video Graham

[@nige4287]

Go for it mate.

[@philippbeer]

In my view it’s a perfect approach to advertise products. Go for it.

[@fredrikwestlund4740]

Thanks for a great video. Very inspiring. :)

[@kelvinradovan1341]

You need to press win+B key before powering the laptop when using usb flashback. hold it until an image came

[@Sociallyawkwardsock]

"Have you ever tried to disassemble a Thinkpad?" I do everyday brother, I feel that pain 😔

[@chris_hertford]

100% do any ads you want! We can always skip through them! Ads are part of world we live in, more money in your pocket makes life easier and you only live once!

[@zimbab5748]

You are a G when it comes to computers! Awesome work. Get sponsored, I'm fine with you getting paid as long as the content is the same.

[@pekitivey]

im ok with a sponmser read. good for you, good for the channel.

[@gregfisher216]

Go for it !

[@bones1225]

Sponsor shoutout.Sounds good. Best to do it while taking the covers off.

[@elizabethtorres6069]

YES! IT'S ALIVE!!!

[@ottokite]

Great video as always. You mentioned that a SATA SSD can cause your computer to not post - this happened to me on my homebuilt PC, my 4TB Sandisk SSD just stopped working and PC could not boot if fitted.

[@williamrollinger3637]

Yes to Sponsors.... You deserve to get something more.

[@markjamesromeroo8217]

this is very helpful i hope the nexts fix is admin pass swat of HP soon keep it up

[@KOSMOS1701A]

i have a dell latitude E5470, and as for dissasembly its a little in the middle, yes it has a big removable bottom panel, but then if you want to go further, you have to take off a "subframe" that provides it with rigidity.

[@gibant1]

Thinkpads are easy to work on. X1 Carbons, the T and X lines are anyway, they also have benefit of when typing you don't feel like your stubbing your fingers every keypress like you do on the Macbook Pro etc

[@fliporflop7119]

11:11 I think you would need to press something like (win+B key, or Win+V key, or just keep pressing B key) one of those 3 options for it to work.

[@radio-ged4626]

It's getting the balance right with sponsoring. It wouldn't phase me if you did as you're suggesting. Edit; The uefi tool looks great, a little confusing as you had to swap between versions of uefi tool to get the functionality you needed but it was intelligible as long as I didn't blink. I can take the matchsticks out my eyes now. But really, very informative and interesting to watch. Edit 2; Back in the '90s and noughties you could reprogram a BIOS chip by just shorting pins out on the system board and loading the BIOS image from a floppy diskette. Of course that didn't always work and you had to unplug or unsolder the chip and reprogram it. But you didn't have to worry about protected sectors or branding or machine type numbers and serial numbers etc. I'm sounding old now...