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

[kteljenkins]

BTW: Vista just won't run with a changed mobo!!! The system is locked down in so many ways. I can't recover because I don't have recovery disks... This is the first and last time I ever buy an OEM system. I think they're fine for Joe Sixpack, his wife, girfriend, etc... but not for tinkerers...

Hey, if I were you, I would put the old motherboard back in, and get on the phone with tech support @ HP. Both me and igotshoe or however he spells it, have had mulitple encounters with their tech support, and believe me, if they'll take my factory refurb m9040n back twice [on their dime both times, for a refurb] for things I did to it [ugraded the bios, and was trying to get them to downgrade it] just tell them it won't boot vista anymore and you don't know why, and I bet you they will fix it for you. Seriously, its worth a try.
Kenny

[Fuzzy_Logic]

Sorry, but I want to be sure:
I have flashed the BIOS made by Kabyl and nothing changed, so I wanted to know if there is anybody with a AsRock 4CORE1600 Twins P35 mobo (maybe e2180 ,sata HDD and DVD-RW) that can confirm this BIOS working on this motherboard.

I used kalyway 10.5.2 ,vanilla Kernel and Netkas SMBIOS .(now 10.5.4 ,first kalyway combo update, with same kernel, then software update, and new kernel)

If there is a confirmation, I would appreciate if I could get some info about the optiones needed to be done in the BIOS and also which distro was used.

Thank you very much.

[serhan]

pls upload this bios?

http://www.gigabyte.com.tr/products/mb/spe...5c-ds3r_21.html

[limini]

Hey, if I were you, I would put the old motherboard back in, and get on the phone with tech support @ HP...

Thanks I thought of that already, but there's a few problems: one I had to modify (cut wires/resolder) the system switch/LED connectors for the new motherboard, and then the unit accidentally fell off the workbench when my foot got caught in the network cable , so there's some minor though quite visible cosmetic damage (the grey HP plastic logo strip got smashed into 5+ pieces). Miraculously everything seems to be working. So I don't know how much of this I can throw at HP It's really been a comedy of errors!!

But the good news is that the P5K-VM I got is running 10.5.4 like a champ! It's ultra fast and almost everything including all 4 cores are working (haven't finished patching yet). It's a faster than my MBP and tons faster and more responsive than a practically identical system my girlfriend has running Vista.

So now my question is: do I really care for Vista enough to go through any further hassles. At the very least maybe I can use this license as a stepping stone to buying an upgrade to the next big proper MS thing (but only if it can run on this hardware though...). I've been reading that you can patch your BIOS with an OEM string that will allow OEM vista to install and seeing as I have a serial.... wait... did you hear me say "patch your BIOS"??!?

Run for the hills!!!!!

[Nzone]

Hi Kabyl, could you please make me a modified BIOS for my ASRock P43R1600Twins-WiFi, here is the bios link http://download.asrock.com/bios/775/P43R16...-WiFi(1.50).zip

CPU : Intel Core2Duo E7200
Chipsets : Intel P43 with ICH10R
Graphics Card : Asus EAH3650 512MB

Thanks a lot !

[lpc2100]

Thanks Order2Chaos. I did try that. What happens is that the system boots up, the floppy drive light comes on, there's some initial floppy reading which stops after a couple of seconds after which the drive light stays on but there's no seeking/reading activity from the floppy. Then after 10 seconds or so, the same initial floppy seeks happen again and then the system starts a slow-3-Beep/silence cycle. The monitor stays off no matter what.

If the same thing happens if I use Windows + b or all 4 directional arrows, which are other key combinations used to force the BIOS to load a ROM image from floppy.

Since there is floppy activity, and since I can turn the computer on and off using the power switch, I suspect that what I'm supplying the BIOS on the floppy isn't what it's looking for. I've tried taking a look at the BootBlock to find what it could be looking for, but I can't seem to de-compile it the same way as the DSDT. From what I've been reading, HP is quite secretive about recovering busted BIOSes (good $ in that, I guess). There's an SPI header on this mobo with a Jumper marked "BIOS RECOVER" but from what I've been reading I'd need a special programmer to do anything with that.

Thanks for the help

I had exactly the same problem with my Acer AM5620 motherboard (AMI Bios and motherboard seems to be an ECS G33 M2 OEM). Done myself the Bios modification, had to fix the "one byte difference" problem, flash using AMI tool (I think the "Erase Boot Block" option is "on" by default) and reboot ... the mother board starts beeping : long beep then few small beeps....

Try recovery mode with a floppy, copy onto the floppy the original bios I had with the appropriate name (before flashing, I used the AMI tool to download the original Bios copy... just in case...) and after a few seconds of disk activity, beeps again. I reboot and now the CPU starts and stop within few seconds. No more beeps. Motherboard seems to be dead.

After I realized that the flash chip on my mother board was a 2Mbit one and that I modified and dowloaded the 1Mbit version that came from the Acer support site. So I unsoldered the flash, hook it to a microcontroller kit I have, wrote a small program and flash it again with the original 2Mbit bios from Acer.... resolder .. reboot and ... same CPU on and off pattern for seconds without any beeps.

I bought a Gibabyte mother board and new case and rebuilt my config. I will continue to investigate what went wrong later and try to recover my Acer motherboard.

[Hoanzl]

HP dv9375eu
BIOS

Is there a way to activate USB DVD boot?
Unfortunately, built-in DVD device doesn't work ("Boot.plist not found.")

Thanks.

[Jaguarrr]

Can you do this with my ASUS F7SE bios?

http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F7SE/F7se307AS.zip

Thank you

[foxmigl]

Please can you mod Asus F8Sn bios?

Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz
3072 Mb DDR2
NVIDIA® GeForce® 9500M GS, 512MB VRAM external

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmen...l3=501&l4=0

BIOS:
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F3Sg/F8SNG303AS.zip

Tks

[one_tjc]

Kabyl .. youd better take the f3jc one from that site cause it killed my laptop. Its already getting fixed so I'll probably be OK but just to make sure others dont get... harmed .

Thanks for your attempts!

Are you referring to this one: http://rs207.rapidshare.com/files/10469169...JcAS306_mod.zip ?

I'm having issues getting past boot [and into the installer] due to kernel panic on ACPI_SMC_Platformplugin, would a modified bios help?

cheers

edit: nevermind, by installing bios 304 i got around this problem

[oberon]

Well, I guess the title says it all, after spending a lot of time reading Documentations, Specifications, Forums.. and hunting for testers , I finally got tehmachacker (thank you) to test a modified BIOS, and as expected, it worked.

This is the issue that intends this mod to fix:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=78235

Basically, what I'm doing is modifying and fixing errors in the DSDT; removing aliases for the "processor" devices, because the ACPIPlatform kext doesn't like them and treat them as other CPUs.. (it's written for Macs, and Apple doesn't use that in their Firmware's ACPI Tables, actually I don't see why we need them, well..)
I for example change this:

CODE

    Scope (_PR)
               {
                   Processor (P001, 0x01, 0x00000810, 0x06) {}
                   Alias (P001, CPU1)
               }

into:

CODE

    Scope (_PR)
               {
                   Processor (P001, 0x01, 0x00000810, 0x06) {}
               }

Sometimes I have to fix more stuff.. you should know that when you try to compile your DSDT.

So if you want to get a fixed BIOS, you can PM me post your request here, included with:

• a direct link to the BIOS file,
• your PC specs (CPU, Chipset and Graphics Card),
• and a description of the issues.

Don't PM me with requests, post them in this thread.

You will find some of the modified BIOSes here.

Keep in mind that I take no responsibility for a bad flash or if anything goes wrong..

NOTE: About Dell laptops, I'm still trying to find the cause of the issues, so if anyone has any suggestions, you're welcome .

Hi, I have a HP 7800MT with Intel QardCore 9450 , Q33 chipset, and I can only boot all the three releases of leopard to hit the error ACPI_SMC_ctrlloop error with 16550 com prot found. Here is the link for the BIOS which I could not set the Sata disk to AHCI ( only IDE/Raid) , is it possible to mod the bios so I can install Leopard on it? ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp38501-39000/sp38811.exe ?

Thx

[NS_osx]

Hi Kabyl,

Would possible to modify the Eeepc 1000H BIOS? so it will be working.

Here is the site:
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=eng

Eee Family
Eee PC
Eee PC 1000H/XP

Thanks in advance.

I tried to edit my 1b module using MMTools, Iasl and Winhex, but it seems only one DSDT string and when I Iasl -d mydsdt.aml, it say no table.

Kabyl, how did you mod the eeepc90111001bios? Could you it for the eeepc1000H?

Thanks again, I hope you will login in again in this forum.

[kruisje]

Hi,

Can you please do something with regards to the following Motherboard?
It's the motherboard of a HP Pavilion Media Center TV m8180.nl HP mentions the motherboard as an IPIBL-LA. Which is actually an Asus Berkely Motherboard.

You can find the bios file here. It's an executable to install a new bios version using windows.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwar...093&lang=en

Proc Intel Quadcore Q6600
8GB DDR800 mhz RAM
GPU XFX Geforce 8800GT

Thanks for your help.

[andrea_l2]

hi,
can you modify my P43D1600-TWIN bios?
bios link= http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Mode...Twins&s=775

I have a
Q6600 processor
4 GB ram DDR2
1 HD Sata 250 GB
1 HD Sata 500 GB
1 DVD Sata
GeForce 8600 GS

Thank you in advance...

[funicular]

Well, I guess the title says it all, after spending a lot of time reading Documentations, Specifications, Forums.. and hunting for testers , I finally got tehmachacker (thank you) to test a modified BIOS, and as expected, it worked.

This is the issue that intends this mod to fix:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=78235

Basically, what I'm doing is modifying and fixing errors in the DSDT; removing aliases for the "processor" devices, because the ACPIPlatform kext doesn't like them and treat them as other CPUs.. (it's written for Macs, and Apple doesn't use that in their Firmware's ACPI Tables, actually I don't see why we need them, well..)
I for example change this:

CODE

    Scope (_PR)
                {
                    Processor (P001, 0x01, 0x00000810, 0x06) {}
                    Alias (P001, CPU1)
                }

into:

CODE

    Scope (_PR)
                {
                    Processor (P001, 0x01, 0x00000810, 0x06) {}
                }

Sometimes I have to fix more stuff.. you should know that when you try to compile your DSDT.

So if you want to get a fixed BIOS, you can PM me post your request here, included with:

• a direct link to the BIOS file,
• your PC specs (CPU, Chipset and Graphics Card),
• and a description of the issues.

Don't PM me with requests, post them in this thread.

You will find some of the modified BIOSes here.

Keep in mind that I take no responsibility for a bad flash or if anything goes wrong..

NOTE: About Dell laptops, I'm still trying to find the cause of the issues, so if anyone has any suggestions, you're welcome .

Hi there,

I'm trying to mod the BIOS of my laptop, a HP nc6320, because only works with one of the two cores and I have to put cpus=1 in the boot.
So when I saw this post I thought I had the same problem.

Well, I have installed a Linux in my laptop to dump and disassemble the dsdt with acpidump and iasl, the thing is that I haven't found anything like the example above, you can check the attach file.

I don't know how to solve the cores problem if it's not of the dsdt, any suggests??

I attach my dsdt.

Thank you so much.

Attached File(s)

 dsdt.rar ( 43.72K ) Number of downloads: 6

 

[mcurran]

Kabyl:

http://rapidshare.com/files/105762425/G1Sn202AS_mod.zip.html (WORKING)

You created this BIOS and it works perfect (friggin' awesome). Once people start to calm down with their Core fix requests from you, do you think you could edit this BIOS again so that the fan speed takes into account the GPU temperatures as well. The fan speed on ASUS notebooks is controlled by the CPU temps., so people with the G1 and G2 and other gaming notebooks are pretty much out of luck when we need to OC our GPU's and keep them cool.

Please let me know if this type of fix would be possible without removing the CPU temp. correlation, so that if either the GPU or CPU get above a certain threshold, then the fan is adjusted accordingly.

I know there will be a lot of happy users for this fix, and when it comes to editing BIOS'es: There just isn't anyone that knows anything about it, especially me. I was going to see if there was anyone else that might help, but then I remembered I would lose my OS X (vanilla kernel!) multiboot, if I didn't have this specific BIOS adjusted. So if you could accomplish this, you would be a lifesaver.

Thanks,

Mike

[sok5]

Done.

Thanks a lot chaos, after getting corrupt CMOS several times. I managed to get to it working and it worked like a charm with Iatkos i4

[digitallysick]

How about Asus Eee Pc 1000 ???? what would i need to do ?? i'm far from a pro but i can read and follow directions, can anyone help me?

[Leandro BH]

Hey man!

Can you do it please w/ Asus F3T Bios - http://support.asus.com/download/download....r&model=F3T

Thanks in advance from Brazil!

[bigwh00p]

So Limini, 1. Sorry about your current problem, hopefully you will be able to get it restored, w/o buying a board, the one I picked out if I screw up mine is Intel® Desktop Board DG33TL, it looks compatible with the HP size, and looks very mac friendly.
until then, I am either gonna get my bios edited here, or try to do it myself [then buy the replacement when I #$#$ it up]
2. What did you use toe extract your bios from the exe that HP supplies them? I read about something called universal extractor, and got a copy, but I am trying to compile as much info + resources before I actually sit down an try this. Off topic, anyone know why when I try to save this topic as a html, or a printed item, it only runs until the middle of april?!
anyway, more info as it comes, and if any kinder soul out there wants to try my bios, its here:


http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwar...0550&dlc=en


the board is:
ASUS IPIBL-LA / Berkeley-GL8E
and the link for the current sucky HP bios:

and the problem details,
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=98145#

anyway, still reading up on this
Kenny

Bump! I have an HP m9000t with the ASUS IPIBL-LA / Berkeley-GL8E mobo w/ the 5.13 bios as well. Any help would be appreciated!