Modified BIOS to get all cores working, For ASUS/MSI (and some other) laptops.. Options

[splukutum]

Are you certain this is the correct bios for your motherboard? There's like 3 different versions called wolfdale1333, the one I made is for the wolfdale1333-D667 specifically.

yup. i finally got 2 cores working finally!

i enabled "no memory execute protection" and "acpi hpet"

disabled speedstep

thanks again!

[kc_xxvii]

HI sir Kabyl

can u help me out with my ECS G31-t motherboard

issues: can only boot by disabling APIC mode, or typing cpus=1
eitherway activity monitor only shows 1 cpu core

here's a DL link to the bios

http://ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Downloads/Dow...d=2&LanID=9

really appreciate your help

[herisson .]

hello kabyl

can you please mod my bios
Asus F8SP NB

CPU: T9300 Core2Duo 2.5Ghz
Graphics: ATI HD3650 1024MB
Chipset: PM965+ICH8M

bios link: Bios 301
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F8Sp/F8SP301AS.zip

good day for U...~!
Thank

[Order2Chaos]

HI sir Kabyl

can u help me out with my ECS G31-t motherboard

issues: can only boot by disabling APIC mode, or typing cpus=1
eitherway activity monitor only shows 1 cpu core

here's a DL link to the bios

http://ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Downloads/Dow...d=2&LanID=9

really appreciate your help

Done.

Attached File(s)

 ECSG31_T_order2chaos.rar ( 367.34K ) Number of downloads: 336

 

[prasz]

Hi Kabyl,
Can you modify the asus x80le bios?
Spec:
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmen...l3=674&l4=0

thanks

Attached File(s)

 A8LE206AS.zip ( 610.81K ) Number of downloads: 8

 

[galligi]

Hi Kabil!
Can you modify this bios?

Gigabyte X48-DQ6
http://asia.giga-byte.com/FileList/BIOS/mo...-x48-dq6_f7.exe

Intel Core 2 Duo Quad Q9450
Asus HD 3870 X2 1GB DDR3

Thx!

[mykalanui]

hi kabyl,

unfortunately i cannot properly download (doesn't extract) the ECT G31T-M Bios file you wrote for Order2Chaos three posts above.
can you please help me with that?

cheers, i really appreciate your work!

[nadnerb]

Hey I just flashed my p35 Neo2-FR with the "7345v18_mod.by.Kabyl" BIOS and now it seems my CPU is hotter in XP.
With default BIOS it usually idles at around 35'c with medium fan speed.
Now with the modded BIOS it idles at about 45'c and even with full fan speed I can't get it below 40'c.
Could this be the new BIOS or is it just a coincidence and is caused by something else?

oh yeah, I have an E2160 CPU.

[digging 7days 24hours]

Thank you Kabyl

Finally, I changed my board and HDD,ODD to SATA.

Please ask to change my bios.
Bios :
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Downloads...d=1&LanID=0

My motherboard is G33T-M2(V1.0). I try to use mod file posted on Kabyl Site.
But it crashed & I had to change my board, so please ask to mod my bios.

I can boot with -v cpus=1 option.

Thank you very much

[Order2Chaos]

hi kabyl,

unfortunately i cannot properly download (doesn't extract) the ECT G31T-M Bios file you wrote for Order2Chaos three posts above.
can you please help me with that?

cheers, i really appreciate your work!

Actually, I modified that bios and produced that file as with all of the files I post. I just downloaded it myself, it extracted fine with WinRAR and the MD5 for the bios matches. I archive all these files with winrar.

How are you trying to extract it? In windows or mac os? In both cases you need to download an archive program like winrar for windows or UnrarX for mac. The only archives that you can just double click are .zip archives.

[Moesalim]

Hello there bro Kabyl. My mobo is the Asrock 4CORE1600P35-WIFI P35 Socket 775 (please note its not the wifi+ version) VISTA and UBUNTU work fine on it, but I am trying to install All different versions of OSx86, but nothing is working for me. The furthest I went with Leo4AllV3 is complete installation and on startup it goes as far as….MAC Framework successfully initialized using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers….and it just stops there…forever……and this is only by initially typing f8, then -v-x-y cpus=1 before being allowed to install OSx86.

Does this mean I can only use 1 core out of the 4 available cores?

The rest of my system is as follows….

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5GHz 1333FSB 6MB L2 Cache
Zotac nVidia Geforce 8500GT 512MB DDR2 DVI VGA TV Out PCI-E
OCZ Stealth Xtream 500W PSU
2 x 2GB OCZ 1333MHz DDR3 RAM
Seagate ST3200827AS 200GB SATA 7200rpm
Seagate ST3500320AS 500GB Hard Drive SATA II 7200rpm 32MB Cache
Optiarc AD-7200S 20X DVD±RW/DL/RAM Internal SATA
Vista Ultimate 32: on Disk0 partition1 and MAC OS X Leopard: Leo4AllV3 on Disk1 partition1
Chipsets info: Intel® P35 + ICH9R Chipsets

Please modify the BIOS for me……here is the link….

http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Mode...T=B&ID=1650 (DOS update)

or

http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Mode...T=B&ID=1651 (Vista update)


I will let u know how it goes….once I have it of course
Thanks again and God Bless, keep up the outstanding work

[xerox1]

Hi, first time time I'm posting

Anyway I own an asus x53 laptop, It has an F3sg motherboard. I've succesfully loaded your F3Sc209AS modded bios into it.
Apperently they have the same bios ID's

First it gave me a black screen at boot but I could hear everything working. So I flashed back my original bios and vga was back.
I used MMtools to look at the bios a bit closer. It turned out the device ID for vga in your bios was different. I changed the values of the bios module called PCI option rom and loaded into my x53. And hey presto had a picture.
Iatkos and kalyway 1.5.2 both booted. Something that was not possible before.

But now my video card (9300) isn't recognized any more in windows and the cpu speed get reported as 100mhz on first bootscreen and as 1200 in bios.
And I had a runtime error now and then in windows. OSX installed fine.

Apparently you changed something in the acpi tables. So I figured lets find that in the bios and replace that with you code.
So I found out that the acpi tables where in the bios modules called Single Link Arch Bios in MMtools.
But I could not write to that module. So I took your modded F3Sc209AS bios and replaced the modules that I could from the original bios.

Everthing seemed OK until I booted.
OOOops I now have a 699,- euro paperweight.

Anyway I sent the laptop to asus to be repaired. But now I would like to ask you if you can tell me how you modded the bios.
Maybe a little howto? Or if you don't have time for that would you consider modding the bios for me?
Because I know when I get my laptop back I'll probably try again
And my girlfriend would probably kill me

You can find the bios here:
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F3Sg/F3Sg305AS.zip

Tnx

[xen Mak]

May we also have a version for Asrock P43R1600Twins-WiFi ?

You can get it here:
http://download.asrock.com/bios/775/P43R16...-WiFi(1.30).zip

Thanks so much!!

[Fuzzy_Logic]

Hello Mr. Kabyl.

I appreciate the work you do.The world would be a better place if there were more like you.

I have also a request for a modded BIOS.
Mobo: AsRock 4CORE1600 Twins P35
CPU : e2180
sata HDD and sata DVD-RW (because of the JMicron controller)

Problem: I can't even boot the DVD without the "cpus=1" flag excepting Kalyway 10.5.2, for Leo4All I need that flag and also for any Tiger distro.
Also for any Iatkos DVD(v1,v2,v3,4) it is impossible to boot I get an error,something like :Apple.com.<dunno> has dependencies on both apple.<smth> and <apple.kernel.<smth> (i don't remember the exact syntax).

Yesterday I downloaded from a bay an iso called "Leo4Allv4" , I checked the homepage, and the latest one is v3 but I gave it a shot and I could boot just with "-v" flag but after the installation i wasn't able to boot into OS X without "cpus=1" so it was something like a false alarm, just wanted to report this, maybe it helps somehow.

Link to BIOS: http://download.asrock.com/bios/775/4Core1...s-P35(1.40).zip
http://download.asrock.com/bios/775/4Core1...s-P35(1.40).zip
Note:A friend with the same mobo(but different cpu, think it was e4300) found a hacked BIOS on the internet,he couldn't remember where he got it from, but it didn't work.
Maybe there needs something else to be done for my configuration.

Is it possible to make a version that can be flashed from Windows? or do I have to buy a floppy disk drive?(wouldnt be that bad, if this would be the price for both cores working:D )

Thank you very much.

[Moesalim]

I apologize, I did not see "by Kabyl" only after i download the file. I will test your version also and let you know how it works. Thank you very much for your time and efforts.

CEALAPA did you test the MOD BIOS by Kabyl for Asrock 4CORE1600P35-WIFI+ or did you just use the one by DjNeo? My MOBO is the Asrock 4CORE1600P35-WIFI (please note its not the WIFI+ version like yours) I contacted ASROCK technical staff, who r kinda helpful and they told me that the BIOS for these two motherboards is the same. Any comments anyone? about the Asrock 4CORE1600P35-WIFI BIOS Modified by Kabyl? Thanx all

Peace out,
Moe

[Moesalim]

OK I just tried to flash my BIOS (ASRock 4Core1600P35 WIFI) with the BIOS for ASRock 4Core1600P35 WIFI+ and the MF***** said Error: File ROM ID incorrect. Even though I asked the ASRock technical team if the two MOBOs used the same identical BIOS. So so disappointed. was really getting excited that I might be able to use MAC OS X today .......Does anyone know what's happened to Kabyl? I don't think he has replied anyone in the last 10 days or more.....I hope he's ok and will be back on track soooooooon Maybe anyone else experienced in modifying BIOS? I will really DONATE to whoever does a working MOD BIOS for me I see David Tsu, and Order Out of Chaos seem to know how to do it.......................PLEASE HELPPPPPP!!!!!!

Moe

Hello Mr. Kabyl.

I appreciate the work you do.The world would be a better place if there were more like you.

I have also a request for a modded BIOS.
Mobo: AsRock 4CORE1600 Twins P35
CPU : e2180
sata HDD and sata DVD-RW (because of the JMicron controller)

Problem: I can't even boot the DVD without the "cpus=1" flag excepting Kalyway 10.5.2, for Leo4All I need that flag and also for any Tiger distro.
Also for any Iatkos DVD(v1,v2,v3,4) it is impossible to boot I get an error,something like :Apple.com.<dunno> has dependencies on both apple.<smth> and <apple.kernel.<smth> (i don't remember the exact syntax).

Yesterday I downloaded from a bay an iso called "Leo4Allv4" , I checked the homepage, and the latest one is v3 but I gave it a shot and I could boot just with "-v" flag but after the installation i wasn't able to boot into OS X without "cpus=1" so it was something like a false alarm, just wanted to report this, maybe it helps somehow.

Link to BIOS: http://download.asrock.com/bios/775/4Core1...s-P35(1.40).zip
http://download.asrock.com/bios/775/4Core1...s-P35(1.40).zip
Note:A friend with the same mobo(but different cpu, think it was e4300) found a hacked BIOS on the internet,he couldn't remember where he got it from, but it didn't work.
Maybe there needs something else to be done for my configuration.

Is it possible to make a version that can be flashed from Windows? or do I have to buy a floppy disk drive?(wouldnt be that bad, if this would be the price for both cores working:D )

Thank you very much.

Have you checked here? http://osrom.net/biosmod/
I think ur MOBO has already been done before bro

Moe

[Moesalim]

Hi Kabyl

Ran into the same problem, running osx 10.5.2 Kalyway+Jas 10.4.8 sse2 patch+cpus=1 (vanilla kernel) on this hardware:
Asrock4Core1600P35-WiFi+
Intel q6600
2gb ram
Radeon hd2600XT.

Installation works fine, without boot flags, but when starting to boot from harddisk , it gets stuck on the "using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster headers" line.

after installing the jas sse2 patch it no longer hangs, but will reboot loop if i don't use cpus=1 flag.
Is there any workaround for it apart from modifying the bios? you were mentioning a kext earlier in a post....

And here are the bios files:
windows version link: http://www.asrock.com/mb/from.asp?Model=4C...T=B&ID=1653
dos version link: http://www.asrock.com/mb/from.asp?Model=4C...T=B&ID=1652

Thank you!

Hello there cealapa, do u think u could help me with a mod BIOS for ASRock 4Core1600P35-WiFi (please note it's not the WIFI+ version) I'm gettin a bit desperate now

http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Mode...T=B&ID=1650

Thnx and would appreciate the help

[Fuzzy_Logic]

OK I just tried to flash my BIOS (ASRock 4Core1600P35 WIFI) with the BIOS for ASRock 4Core1600P35 WIFI+ and the MF***** said Error: File ROM ID incorrect. Even though I asked the ASRock technical team if the two MOBOs used the same identical BIOS. So so disappointed. was really getting excited that I might be able to use MAC OS X today .......Does anyone know what's happened to Kabyl? I don't think he has replied anyone in the last 10 days or more.....I hope he's ok and will be back on track soooooooon Maybe anyone else experienced in modifying BIOS? I will really DONATE to whoever does a working MOD BIOS for me I see David Tsu, and Order Out of Chaos seem to know how to do it.......................PLEASE HELPPPPPP!!!!!!

Moe



Have you checked here? http://osrom.net/biosmod/
I think ur MOBO has already been done before bro

Moe

Yes, I did try there.
But nothing happens it's almost* like the original BIOS/

*I noticed that the kernel panic I get when booting Kalyway 10.5.2 without "cpus=1" flag ,is somehow differen, there aren't any files pointed as potential source for the panic ,instead I get lots of hex code(I think it's hex).

I'm starting to loose my faith, everything works great but the performance could be better with both cores.

Is there anybody who has my mobo and similar specs that can confirm this BIOS works ?? If so, which distro did u use ?
I have tryed them all, no kidding, all 10.4 and 10.5 I could find.
Is there anybody else who's making modified BIOS'es ?

Thanks.

[Shahid Taak]

Hi ,
I need a patched BIOS for mm HP 520 notbook, having problems with dual core.

Link
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp38501-39000/sp38863.exe/


Thanks.

[jsl]

Hi, Kabyl, need your help again.
Can you modify Asus A6Jc's BIOS for me at:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDownload/...load-19346.html