Google sent him a CR 48 with Windows 7 On It • Hacker News Board

Re: Google sent him a CR 48 with Windows 7 On It

#11

Post by est » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 3:19 AM UTC

bcrawl wrote: post #2

tl;dr Guy receives a CR48 with windows 7. Contacts google/google groups. No one has any real answer how this could have happened. Google product guy sends him an email with RMA details. Participant complies. But before sending it back he dumps the BIOS out. Some one from chromeOS forums successfully flashed their BIOS with this one. So this works. I fully understand that one should use these CR 48 laptops for what th…

Hmm, it's Simplified Chinese version of Win7. I highly doubt it's even a pirated version.

Re: Google sent him a CR 48 with Windows 7 On It

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Post by donniefitz2 » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 3:30 AM UTC

Here's more: http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-os-di...

Re: Google sent him a CR 48 with Windows 7 On It

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Post by bcrawl » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 3:31 AM UTC

ok, I think the chromeos forums deleted the thread. They are not in any way affiliated with google btw. Here is the screenshot which has instructions from the guy who said he flashed. http://imgur.com/TN21R

Here is the BIOS which came with that CR48 Windows 7 laptop. http://www.sendspace.com/file/wp9nb6

This guy flashed his regular CR 48 bios with the above one and was able to boot back into Chrome. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10302232&postcoun...

Ok, just got done with this. I can verify 100% working. Instead of installing another OS though, I just rebooted after the BIOS flash and surprisingly Chrome started up! It erased the stateful partition and then reboot and voila I am back in Chrome -- with the notable exception -- of now being able to get into the BIOS.

Simply awesome.

Re: Google sent him a CR 48 with Windows 7 On It

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Post by dragonfli » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 5:20 AM UTC

bcrawl wrote: post #13

ok, I think the chromeos forums deleted the thread. They are not in any way affiliated with google btw. Here is the screenshot which has instructions from the guy who said he flashed. http://imgur.com/TN21R Here is the BIOS which came with that CR48 Windows 7 laptop. http://www.sendspace.com/file/wp9nb6 This guy flashed his regular CR 48 bios with the above one and was able to boot back into Chrome. http://ubuntuforu…

Naw. They just merged the two threads.

Re: Google sent him a CR 48 with Windows 7 On It

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Post by bcrawl » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 6:41 AM UTC

est wrote: post #11

bcrawl wrote: post #2

tl;dr Guy receives a CR48 with windows 7. Contacts google/google groups. No one has any real answer how this could have happened. Google product guy sends him an email with RMA details. Participant complies. But before sending it back he dumps the BIOS out. Some one from chromeOS forums successfully flashed their BIOS with this one. So this works. I fully understand that one should use these CR 48 laptops for what th…

Hmm, it's Simplified Chinese version of Win7. I highly doubt it's even a pirated version.

Someone really screwed it up somewhere. They should update this page section of "out of scope" by including "Alternate bios images".

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/f...

just kidding.

Re: Google sent him a CR 48 with Windows 7 On It

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Post by bcrawl » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 10:37 AM UTC

dragonfli wrote: post #14

bcrawl wrote: post #13

ok, I think the chromeos forums deleted the thread. They are not in any way affiliated with google btw. Here is the screenshot which has instructions from the guy who said he flashed. http://imgur.com/TN21R Here is the BIOS which came with that CR48 Windows 7 laptop. http://www.sendspace.com/file/wp9nb6 This guy flashed his regular CR 48 bios with the above one and was able to boot back into Chrome. http://ubuntuforu…

Naw. They just merged the two threads.

Hey, Thanks for testing out the dubious image.. Happy new year.!

Re: Google sent him a CR 48 with Windows 7 On It

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Post by rbanffy » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 2:37 PM UTC

That's the downside of basing the Cr-48 on an Atom or other non-Windows-proof processor... ;-)

I find the x86 space very boring.

Re: Google sent him a CR 48 with Windows 7 On It

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Post by drdaeman » Sat, Jan 01, 2011, 9:18 PM UTC

(Off-topic) On the last screenshot in Ubuntu section, the guy had accidentally photoed his own credit card, laying near CR48, with number and expiry date almost clearly readable. I don't know whenever this is secure (his bank may disallow CNP transactions), but, maybe, someone should notify him about this.