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Hi, I got myself a new wifi card and just tried to downgrade the BIOS in Windows 10 from V2.51 to V2.36 using the guide without any success. Can anyone confirm that this still works?
When running the command it opens a new window and then closes again shortly after without doing anything.
Any help is much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Argie
EDIT: Sorry nevermind, I went into the BIOS settings and saw that an option to prevent users from Flashing the bios was enabled. Disabling it solved the problem.
EDIT AGAIN: I just wanted to share my experience quickly. I downgraded to BIOS 2.36. I found a BCM94360CS2 wifi card on eBay and installed it with an NGFF adaptor. I had to cut the adaptor so it doesn't press on a diode on the board. The height of the adaptor + wifi card presses on the bottom case when trying to close it, this is not too much of a problem since the case bulges just slightly. However, I noticed that the laptop started switching off randomly when moved and on battery. I was scratching my head a little but assumed the problem was some sort of switch that detects the bottom case. I found the two switches on the logic board that lined up with extrusions in the bottom case and put some tape on the extrusions to account for the extra height of the adaptor and wifi card. It seems the extra height was causing the switch to turn the laptop off. This was not the problem though, the external battery is defective.
As is known, everything works with this wifi card without further input needed. The other benefit is that they are dirt cheap on Ebay, I got mine for 10 euro here in Italy. The only thing is I needed to do was to toggle Handoff/Continuity option in System Preferences to get Handoff to work. Now everything works perfectly, Handoff/Continuity, Airdrop, also my Bluetooth keyboard works in the BIOS and Clover menu.
Thanks again to Sniki for the guide and help.
When running the command it opens a new window and then closes again shortly after without doing anything.
Any help is much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Argie
EDIT: Sorry nevermind, I went into the BIOS settings and saw that an option to prevent users from Flashing the bios was enabled. Disabling it solved the problem.
EDIT AGAIN: I just wanted to share my experience quickly. I downgraded to BIOS 2.36. I found a BCM94360CS2 wifi card on eBay and installed it with an NGFF adaptor. I had to cut the adaptor so it doesn't press on a diode on the board. The height of the adaptor + wifi card presses on the bottom case when trying to close it, this is not too much of a problem since the case bulges just slightly. However, I noticed that the laptop started switching off randomly when moved and on battery. I was scratching my head a little but assumed the problem was some sort of switch that detects the bottom case. I found the two switches on the logic board that lined up with extrusions in the bottom case and put some tape on the extrusions to account for the extra height of the adaptor and wifi card. It seems the extra height was causing the switch to turn the laptop off. This was not the problem though, the external battery is defective.
As is known, everything works with this wifi card without further input needed. The other benefit is that they are dirt cheap on Ebay, I got mine for 10 euro here in Italy. The only thing is I needed to do was to toggle Handoff/Continuity option in System Preferences to get Handoff to work. Now everything works perfectly, Handoff/Continuity, Airdrop, also my Bluetooth keyboard works in the BIOS and Clover menu.
Thanks again to Sniki for the guide and help.
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