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[harbri]

How long does it take to patch the bios file? I've installed the tool, downloaded the bios-file from the gigabyte site (I have a EP35-DS4 board), started the tool and selected the downloaded biosfile to patch (ep35ds4.f5). A dos-box opened and that's it for over an hour now, the dos-box is still open. Is it normal that it takes this long or dit something else go wrong?

harbri

[ontoid]

harbri, on Dec 27 2008, 03:10 PM, said:

How long does it take to patch the bios file? I've installed the tool, downloaded the bios-file from the gigabyte site (I have a EP35-DS4 board), started the tool and selected the downloaded biosfile to patch (ep35ds4.f5). A dos-box opened and that's it for over an hour now, the dos-box is still open. Is it normal that it takes this long or dit something else go wrong?

harbri

few sec acctually, maybe 10
I did test on your bios everything was ox.

[koalala]

harbri, on Dec 27 2008, 03:10 PM, said:

How long does it take to patch the bios file? I've installed the tool, downloaded the bios-file from the gigabyte site (I have a EP35-DS4 board), started the tool and selected the downloaded biosfile to patch (ep35ds4.f5). A dos-box opened and that's it for over an hour now, the dos-box is still open. Is it normal that it takes this long or dit something else go wrong?

harbri

No it isn't. However, patching EP35DS4.F5 is working on my computer.
Try putting BIOS on another place or updating .NET Framework to 3.5.
Never put BIOS in read-only places or places which requires administrator rights like system disk root or something like that.

I just posted 0.1.7 patcher which add GFX DSDT functionnality.

[vlzhukov]

Hi!  I have patched BIOS(insert Windows SLIM table) on my m/b GA-EX38-DQ6.
This patcher destroy it ?

p.s  Sorry at my bad english

[koalala]

vlzhukov, on Dec 27 2008, 05:12 PM, said:

Hi!  I have patched BIOS(insert Windows SLIM table) on my m/b GA-EX38-DQ6.
This patcher destroy it ?

p.s  Sorry at my bad english

No, all the BIOS modules are left. However inserting SLIC table in BIOS isn't legal...
But the patcher will work.

[roisoft]

Great  work koalala !  

[Dr. Hurt]

That sounds very interesting! Any chance of getting desktop GMA950 working properly? I think the problem lies in the amount of shared memory and dev-id. Since that's the only difference between GMA950 for laptops (which works) and desktops (which don't work)!

[roisoft]

Desktop GMA950 works with this code

Device (GFX0)
{
Name (_ADR, 0x00020000) //  use a proper value for each board
Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
{
Store (Package (0x1A)
{
"device_type", 
Buffer (0x08)
{
"display"
},
"model", 
Buffer (0x07)
{
"GMA950"
},

"built-in",
Buffer (one)
{
 0x01
}

}, Local0)
DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
Return (Local0)
}
 Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)
{
If (LEqual (Arg0, Buffer (0x10)
{
/* 0000 */	0xC6, 0xB7, 0xB5, 0xA0, 0x18, 0x13, 0x1C, 0x44, 
/* 0008 */	0xB0, 0xC9, 0xFE, 0x69, 0x5E, 0xAF, 0x94, 0x9B
}))
{
If (LEqual (Arg1, One))
{
If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero))
{
Store (Buffer (One)
{
 0x03
}, Arg4)
Return (One)
}
If (LEqual (Arg2, One))
{
Return (One)
}
}
}

Store (Buffer (One)
{
0x00
}, Arg4)
Return (Zero)
}
}

[vlzhukov]

koalala, on Dec 27 2008, 06:40 PM, said:

No, all the BIOS modules are left. However inserting SLIC table in BIOS isn't legal...
But the patcher will work.

Thanks 

[kozlek]

koalala, I can say - work are you doing is great!

[koalala]

roisoft, I added your fix and GMA 950 code in 1.7.2 version.

[roisoft]

Great work! (once again)

[homepav]

My m/b EP35C-DS3R 100% work!  
Thanks !

[atka]

If I patch just the dsdt.aml file the program always crashes with a can't find dsdt.dsl file in vista and in xp the program always deletes the dsdt.asl file.  If I patch a bios in either xp or vista (which ins't for my board) it works though.

[koalala]

atka, on Dec 28 2008, 12:20 AM, said:

If I patch just the dsdt.aml file the program always crashes with a can't find dsdt.dsl file in vista and in xp the program always deletes the dsdt.asl file.  If I patch a bios in either xp or vista (which ins't for my board) it works though.

It's possible, I didn't test this function since 0.1.4.1, I may have broken it. 0.1.7.4 will fix it and will be released tomorrow.

[tsotelo2]

Great work koalala.Thanks.

[BlackCH]

atka, on Dec 28 2008, 12:20 AM, said:

If I patch just the dsdt.aml file the program always crashes with a can't find dsdt.dsl file in vista and in xp the program always deletes the dsdt.asl file.

Same here. I have an AMI BIOS, so I can only patch the DSDT.aml file.
Is there any chance to add support for AMI bios; or patch the extracted ACPI BIOS modules. Then I could just replace the original module with tha patched one and rebuild the BIOS file....

Excellent work anyways!
Thanks!

[Colaly]

Does nvidia another card Suport?
G94(9600GT)?

[Dr. Hurt]

Is there anyway to use this without windows, because I don't have windows on my PC. Also is there anyway I could use the desktop GMA950 code without patching the BIOS (eg. EFI string.. etc)?

Sorry for being a noob, but this is way above my computing skills!

[ontoid]

Dr. Hurt, on Dec 28 2008, 03:19 PM, said:

Is there anyway to use this without windows, because I don't have windows on my PC. Also is there anyway I could use the desktop GMA950 code without patching the BIOS (eg. EFI string.. etc)?

Sorry for being a noob, but this is way above my computing skills!

Yes, download bios for MB and patch it with marked option for generating DSDT.aml
I've made one based on MB type from your signature

Take a look
 DSDT.aml.zip   5.49K   81 downloads