Define Locked BIOS

[TheSuspect]

I was looking around to try and do something, but it's not possible with a locked Bios. But what exactly is a locked bios? And is it possible to unlock one?

[ShadowCaptain]

5 minutes ago, TheSuspect said:

I was looking around to try and do something, but it's not possible with a locked Bios. But what exactly is a locked bios? And is it possible to unlock one?

Depends if you mean locked as in, the BIOS is password protected

 

or Locked in the sense of overclocking, that the boards firmware has had those features disabled either due to hardware or software limitations

[TheSuspect]

59 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

Depends if you mean locked as in, the BIOS is password protected

 

or Locked in the sense of overclocking, that the boards firmware has had those features disabled either due to hardware or software limitations

I'm guessing it's the second one, since I don't have a pass for mine. Thanks 

[ShadowCaptain]

1 minute ago, TheSuspect said:

I'm guessing it's the second one, since I don't have a pass for mine. Thanks 

I think most people mean that unlike a Z series board you cannot access the OCing features as the board does not support it

[TheSuspect]

2 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

I think most people mean that unlike a Z series board you cannot access the OCing features as the board does not support it

Is there a way to 'unlock' a locked Bios?

[ShadowCaptain]

21 minutes ago, TheSuspect said:

Is there a way to 'unlock' a locked Bios?

generally not no, since they board does not have the hardware to support heavily OCd components

 

SOME boards are unlocked by the manufacturer, eg all the B/H series board were unlocked to support overcloking the penitum g3258 and some others a year or so back

 

What are you trying to do?

[TheSuspect]

2 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

generally not no, since they board does not have the hardware to support heavily OCd components

 

SOME boards are unlocked by the manufacturer, eg all the B/H series board were unlocked to support overcloking the penitum g3258 and some others a year or so back

 

What are you trying to do?

Disabling the Intel hd graphics, on a laptop, so Nvidia controls all graphics. (Trying to Oc a monitor. And yes, I'm aware of the drawbacks, it's an older one so)

[ShadowCaptain]

8 minutes ago, TheSuspect said:

Disabling the Intel hd graphics, on a laptop, so Nvidia controls all graphics. (Trying to Oc a monitor. And yes, I'm aware of the drawbacks, it's an older one so)

oh, ive never seen that locked before what is the board?

[TheSuspect]

8 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

oh, ive never seen that locked before what is the board?

I really don't know. This is the spec sheet if this helps.

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04090963

 

Edit: Speccy says it's a Hewlett Packard 2166 U3E1.

[ShadowCaptain]

1 hour ago, TheSuspect said:

I really don't know. This is the spec sheet if this helps.

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04090963

 

Edit: Speccy says it's a Hewlett Packard 2166 U3E1.

Oh laptop, not sure you will be able to do what you intend unless you can disable nvidia optimus

 

on some older laptops you could disable the onboard GPU through the intel utility, but might not be the case

 

are you trying to overclock the laptop panel or something?

[TheSuspect]

4 hours ago, ShadowCaptain said:

Oh laptop, not sure you will be able to do what you intend unless you can disable nvidia optimus

 

on some older laptops you could disable the onboard GPU through the intel utility, but might not be the case

 

are you trying to overclock the laptop panel or something?

Trying to overclock the monitor's refresh rate. How would one go about disabling optimus?

[ShadowCaptain]

2 hours ago, TheSuspect said:

Trying to overclock the monitor's refresh rate. How would one go about disabling optimus?

you normally cant with laptops, and its probably not even worth it anyway

 

you most likely cant 

[TheSuspect]

3 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

you normally cant with laptops, and its probably not even worth it anyway

 

you most likely cant 

Oh well. It was worth a try. Thanks anyway