Me too please

My patched BIOS for the 4core1600p35-wifi board worked. I just had to disable speedstepping in the bios and it went without a hitch! I will post it tomorrow.

I'm desperate for this (actually, I work from my "Mac"). If anyone has a fix for my BIOS problem, I'll be grateful forever

Thanks!

Seeing as there's an overload of requests and as I'm a firm believer in "teaching to fish..." as well as a DIYer by nature, I found David Tsu's excellent post in this thread and I'm trying to mod my own BIOS. It turns out this HP machine as an AMI BIOS so the tools suggested by David seem to work fine.

However being a BIOS and inherently a sensitive component, I want to make sure I'm doing it right: when I re-insert the DSDT.aml file back into SingleLink.dat, my SingleLink.dat file is exactly 1 byte shorter than the original (413,729 instead of 413,730). I've followed procedure to the letter twice with the same result. Is this ok? Or should it be exactly the same file size? Should I subtract a byte from the offset size before I remove the old block from SingleLink.dat to end up right?

TIA!

**Update: when I re-insert DSDT.aml, the end "2E" byte is missing. If I INSERT "2E" it at it's expected position instead of just changing the "00" byte after "WAKh", I will end up with the exact same size file. Should I do that? All the old data after the insert would now be in exactly the same position it was originally.

I also recently have done the same as you and yes the reason why yours was slightly smaller was due to the lack of 2E and like in his guide you do need to add 2E at the end if you have not.

2E apparently lets it know that, that location is the end of the file, but it is not compiled into the .dsl file that is created.

Also not all BIOS ends with WAKh like David Tsu's guide suggest, however it does seem like most and maybe all of them have the WAKh location (once or twice, near the end) and if you follow his guide then you will receive an error when you try to decompile, however the error does let you know where it is expecting the end of the file. In my case it expected it to end at 57CC but I only copied it down to 57B8 so I knew I needed to copy a little bit more data (57C0 row, and 12th column I think to equal 57CC).

Hi,

Was there any chance of making modified bios for Asus M50Sa?

Well, despite everything done to the letter, it looks like I fried my BIOS. The system still turns on and off but won't do anything else; it seems to want to load a replacement ROM via floppy, but it doesn't seem to accept any of the files I've tried. After read failure it settles into a cycle of three long beeps/silence. I don't know if I can recover from this yet, but let it be a lesson to all.

Soooooo... what's a good mini-ATX for a hackintosh

Hi!

I have Asus F3jc-AP103
Where can I find bios for it to mod it?
On Asus site there are just versions 304,305,306,307 but nothing about my version of f3jc
If I use one of these, will I hurt my laptop?

Have you tried the AMI bios recovery method?


Recovery procedures for AMI BIOS

1. Download the latest version or your choose version of BIOS file for your computer or motherboard from the manufacturer’s support site.
2. Rename the downloaded file to AMIBOOT.ROM.
3. Copy the file to a floppy disk.
4. Insert the floppy disk to the floppy drive.
5. Turn on the system.
6. The system should automatically access the floppy drive (indicated LED will light up). If no floppy access occurs press and hold Ctrl-Home to force update. Follow any on screen instruction to restore and recover the good BIOS from the floppy disk.
7. When 4 beeps are heard or a reboot prompt you may remove the floppy disk.
8. Restart the computer.

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 posted a few pages ago, but I though I would give my post a bump.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=833739

hi, would like to request a modified bios for the MSI P35 Neo2 -FR

Link of the bios:
MSI P35 Neo2 FR


Specs of my pc:
E6300 with P35 chipset and Nvidia 8400 of graphics card


this is newer than the last one posted. thanks in advance

Hi

I would like to know if you could do the same for my bios, Acer Aspire 5520G: this is the link for the original bios : ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/asp.../Bios/v1.32.zip

For the full specs, i have a AMD Turion 64x2 TL-58 1,9Ghz, a nvidia 8600M GS 512VRAM.

For the issue, it blocks at the load of firsts HFS+ Files... with Leo4AllV2... so i think that it's a bios issue and hope you could do something for me

Thanks a lot

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

Hi Kenny. After on and off tinkering for a day, I gave up and got a P5K-VM because it was the closest match available locally (G33/ICH9). I just finished installing it and I'm trying to find the best BIOS settings for it before I do anything else. It's quite refreshing to have too many BIOS options compared to the @#!$#% HP one. It's too bad really because the IPIBL-LB is was actually decent motherboard. I'm about to boot into Vista for the first time on this system and I'm very curious as to how it and all the pre-canned HP software is going to react to a foreign motherboard. It has Marvel Lan, Realtek Audio which work fine; I'd check compatability with Audio and Lan for the Intel board if I were you, though it looks like a great board.

As for the BIOS: after my experience I don't think I'd try anything again with an OEM mobo. The BIOS on the IPIBL is actually an Amibios version 8 and you can get the current v8 flashing tool which can save your bios to a file, off the AMI website. But I REALLY was totally careful to follow David Tsu's tutorial to the letter, and yet... Someone in this thread posted that he found 'other' dependencies in the BIOS relating to the lines that are erased in the DSDT. It's entirely possible that that's the case with the HP BIOS. One thing I regret not doing is making sure I didn't flash the Bootblock. I used an older flasing utility than the current one on AMI's site, so it's very possible that the older tool was the wrong tool and it erased the Bootblock, preventing recovery. See if you can make sure that doesn't happen. The only way to recover this mobo now would be to have the equipment (and technique) to use the SPI header and reprogram the chip that way. The BIOS chip is soldered on this mobo.

So that's my tale. Let me know how it goes!

hey thanks for the info, I will check out those resources, I currently have been just compiling the windows based editing tools [from the usual sources] while I read up [mac user] on the whole process. I'l definitely be over to megatrends. thanks again, talk to you later.

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...

Kabyl,

Thanks a lot. u solved my problem. now my asrock conroe d667 bios can support wolfdale e8400 working without error. no need to downgrade to bios 1.3 anymore.

Kabyl,

Could you please provide me with a modified BIOS for my Intel S5000XVN Mother Board (Intel Quad Core Xeon 2.0 Ghz, Intel 5000X Chipset , 4 Gn RAM) The link to the BIOS is http://downloadcenter.intel.com/download.a...ms&lang=eng


Advanced Thanks to you

My mobo is P5Q PRO, based on Intel LGA775 Platform, P45 chipset using ICH10R.

Have E7200 Wolfdale CPU 1066 FSB, 2 cores ofc.
4GB Mushkin RAM 1066 DDRII.

Link to bios: http://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket...US-PRO-0703.zip

Much appreciated.


Would be nice if someone wrote a tutorial soo we (unknowledgeble) wont pester you with requests.

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

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.

pls upload this bios?

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

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!!!!!

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 !

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.

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.

Can you do this with my ASUS F7SE bios?

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

Thank you

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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?

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!

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!

Hi how are you , i was just wondering if you could mod a bios for me, i have an acer travelmate 6592g. if possible i would like you to take a look adn see if its possible to mod the bios as follows- but please rad below and let me know.

hi i have an acer 6592g, i flashed the bios to the latest, becuase of fan and heat issues, but after the update , the keyboard and mouse aren't working properly, i downgraded to the original bios, but problem is the same.

i have been poking around the bios files, and i have noticed that after a certain version number- the bios has support to flash SST25VF080B, now i also noticed in later bios releases there is an update called KBBIOS and its updated to version ver .50. and also the EC bios with the same version number.

Now i suspect that the information i want to flash, so that the keyboard and trackpad return to their original state, is contained in that part SST25VF080B, which earlier version of the bios dont support for flashing, and later verision have the KBBIOS update already on it.

here is a section for the log for bios version 1.52- version after 1.32 have the ability to flash SST25VF080B.


Device name : W25X80 (001300EF)
Version label: ALPHA
Block info : 16X64K
Looking for Text descriptor...
Device name : MX25l800 (001300C2)
Version label: ALPHA
Block info : 16X64K
Looking for Text descriptor...
Device name : SST25VF080B (008E00BF)
Version label: ALPHA
Block info : 32X32K
Looking for the platform descriptor ...
Looking for the keyboard table ...
Looking for the IBM table...
Looking for the nic descriptor ...


where as versions before 1.32 do not have support for flashing part SST25VF080B

Looking for the part table structure...
Part table contains 2 device(s)...
Looking for part descriptor...
Looking for part descriptor...
Looking for the text descriptor table structure...
Looking for Text descriptor...
Device name : W25X80 (001300EF)
Version label: ALPHA
Block info : 16X64K
Looking for Text descriptor...
Device name : MX25l800 (001300C2)
Version label: ALPHA
Block info : 16X64K
Looking for the platform descriptor ...
Looking for the keyboard table ...
Looking for the IBM table...
Looking for the nic descriptor



so i guess the easiest way is to get a bios version between 1.32 and 1.32.02- all have support for SST25VF080B (008E00BF) but critically dont have the KBBIOS. So if any one with an acer travelmat 6592g and have the bios 1.32, 1.32.01 or 1.32.02 please let me know

And the other option, is can i edit the bios version after 1.32 to remove the KBBIOS update or can i downgrade the KBBIOS. I beleive this is all part of the EC BIOS - so if its possible to downgrade the EC bios section that would be great. Now if you are able to even mod version 1.52 by changing the ECBios or KBBBIOS to a lower version, i beleive i will get the keyboard and trackpad functionality back.

http://rapidshare.com/files/134344486/v1.52.zip.html (bios v1.52)

http://rapidshare.com/files/134345765/bios.rar.html (all other bios version)

thanks



thanks in advance, i hope this all made sense.

Maybe somebody can help me!!

I am new with hackintosh and I have a TOSHIBA laptop working with Leo4All v3, but with only 1 core working...
The only way to get my 2 cores working is with a modified bios???

Thanks for any help!

will this work for a thinkpad t40?

Please can you do this fore my ASUS F7SE bios?

specs Asus F7se / Pro71SE-7S033C, C2D-T5500, 250GB,3GB,17"
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&...amp;modelmenu=2

BIOS 307 http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F7SE/F7se307AS.zip

thanks in advance

Just wanted to give this another bump. Thanx for all your hard work!

Hey Kabyl, can you give a try for me ? I had an Acer Aspire 5620Z-4636 with Intel Pentium Dual Core T2330 1.6 Ghz. With Intel 960 Chipset and Intel GMA X3100 Integrated graphics. I run on one core. That's possible with your bin to flash my bios and take it back to two core and fix those shitty ACPI errors when I install it... Appreciated your answer and keep on working hehe!

Well someone modified bios for my board allready, but it still doesnt work.
Cant get past "waiting for root device".

Cause of the fact this OS distribution doesnt support my ICH10r chipset thus failing to recognize the very same DVD drive it was booted from (LMAO).

I have 2 SATA drives and 1 EIDE drive. I want to install to this IDE like I have in the past on my AMD platform.

I thought buying Intel is gonna be easier than AMD. I guess I was mistaken.

My board: P5Q PRO.

I believe the "waiting for root device" message has nothing to do with your BIOS: it just means that your OS X install can't find the "root device" and as you've noticed has to do with your chipset. If you have a SATA DVD try plugging it into SATA 0 or SATA 1 on your motherboard and try the install from there. If that doesn't work try using "IDE" instead of "AHCI" in the BIOS.

I'm starting to find this entire thread a bit ludicrous as many people funnel all their problems down to the BIOS. The fundamental problem with this solution is that everyone who subscribes to it are locking themselves down to the hacked BIOS and if anything of value gets revised for their motherboard they con't upgrade unless the BIOS is modified again.

It seems to me that a real solution to the problems mentioned in the original post would be better handled at a low level layer like netkas' EFI, leaving the BIOS out of the solution.

Could you mod my bios?

Motherboard: ASUS M2N32SLI Deluxe
CPU: Phenom 9500+
Shows 1 core in System Profiler, but it does show 4 cores in Activity Monitor.
It just doesn't seem to be as quick as my P4 setup I used to have with Leopard.

Anyways here is the link to my bios:
http://rapidshare.com/files/134659307/MYBIOS.BIN.html

It needs to be that bios, its actually Asus Bios 2001 for my motherboard but with some SLIC information


I appreciate any and all help with this.

Well I know it cant be the bios fault. Im only seeing people who managed to install Leo on their machines with same motherboard etc. the only difference was they were using SATA or USB DVD drive while I use EIDE.

Is there any distro out there that supports Marvell controller? So I can use my DVD. Or do I reall have to go out and buy a SATA one?
If I buy SATA DVD and I still dont manage to setup Leo I will be pissed as hell. :*/