HP Envy 17 j199ez bios whitelisting?

[akeean]

Hi,

I have a HP Envy 17 j199ez wtih (latest) F.68 Rev.A Bios. Is there a whitelisting present in the BIOS preventing installation of non-preapproved mPCIE cards? (I.e.: bios will prevent system startup with error "Unsupported wireless device" because it does not have the device ID in its list of approved cards)

I heard that HP stopped its whitelisting practice a while ago, but I don't know if my device is affected & I would like to do a cheap upgrade to a better wifi card without fear that this specific device ID is "not supported" (sometimes device IDs differ even on same model cards, which can be very annoying)

Hope not just to get a "only use HP certified parts" copypasta, but actually an answer to $subject, so I don't have to open my other laptop and try out its old atheros card just to see if it gets locked out or not.

Thanks.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

You are past the whitelist. No problem. Any wireless card of the correct form factor will work. I had the Envy 17-j000 series which is slightly older than yours and based on personal testing, whitelist was not present. 

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[akeean]

Thank you very much for the answer.

Great news, too.