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mr-white

May 28 2008, 11:15 AM

Hi, Kabyl!

Please Help Modified BIOS for Asus M50Sa

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/M50Sa/M50SA203AS.zip

Thanks.

jumpyfrog

May 28 2008, 03:44 PM

Hi please could you mod this bios for me its for ASUS P5K-VM link to bios is
http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket...M-ASUS-0803.zip

Thanks for your help!

mitch_de

May 28 2008, 09:00 PM

My MSI P965 NEO-F crashes , means logout, if i run "About this Mac.".
System Profiler runs with no problem !
And i have no major other problems. (Sure, About this Mac crash isnt really bad, but maybe some other things can get worst)

Do you know anything about that problem.
MSI (7235) has an BIOS Option : LIMIT CPUID MaxVal to 3 / OFF )
I set it to OFF (somewere i read to do that)

IORegistry Explorer shows that there are 2 CPUs with values and 2 without - may that be an BIOS Problem ?

MSI P965 NEO-F (7235) , Chipset Intel 965 , Intel CPU E2160
BIOS: 7235v1A.zip
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=do...9&type=bios

Screenshoot of IORegistryExplorer below:

ujen

May 28 2008, 11:46 PM

any news for dell guys??

alexandros7

May 29 2008, 10:47 AM

gigabyte p35 ds3.. is there a modded bios? thanks

raf111

May 30 2008, 07:14 AM

QUOTE(david tsu @ May 26 2008, 05:27 PM)

Here is the modified AMI bios for ECS G31T-M. Unfortunally, the newer version of the bios do not work correctly and will get "unable to load driver" for "ACPI". So I have to stick with the older version of the bios. This has been tested on a quad core. But USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! I AM NOT RESPOSIBLE AGAINST ANY DAMAGE! PLEASE IF YOU MESS UP YOUR BOARD I REALLY CAN NOT HELP YOU.

Thanks
-DTsu

Thank you so much for your work! The flash went OK but unfortunately my system got very unstable and would freeze in random places during the installation. The instability, however, also appeared under Linux and Windows, so it's probably a BIOS bug, and I had to revert back to the newer BIOS.

Actually it seems ECS has released an even newer version here:

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/...=44&LanID=0

Do you think it might be worth patching too?

Hugh1981

May 30 2008, 01:26 PM

Hi there,

I've been having a lot of trouble finding any references to the F3L model, specifically F3L-AP016P. Is this a rare model?

Can this BIOS please be modded?

http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F3L/F3L206AS.zip

Thanks in advance!

david tsu

May 31 2008, 12:22 AM

QUOTE(raf111 @ May 30 2008, 07:14 AM)

I think the the Quad core run better with the older version. But here is the patched version of the newer bios. Hope it works better for you.
Let me know how it goes.

*DISCLAIMER*USE AT OWN RISK

david tsu

May 31 2008, 03:07 AM

QUOTE(Hugh1981 @ May 30 2008, 01:26 PM)

It is an AMIBIOS, but since I don't have that much time to debug the problem with DSDT compiliation errors, you might have to do some research yourself. I spend about total of 30 minutes on yours so far with no luck. If you intend to debug it yourself, you need the iasl.exe from Intel and do a iasl.exe -d dsdt.dsl and you will see what I mean. I am not an expert on DSDT compilation errors either, so I guess google might be our best friend.

I have attached your compiled dsdt. If you have figured out how to compile the dsdt without errors, attach the files here and I will make a rom for you.

raf111

May 31 2008, 06:43 AM

QUOTE(david tsu @ May 31 2008, 12:22 AM)

I think the the Quad core run better with the older version. But here is the patched version of the newer bios. Hope it works better for you.
Let me know how it goes.

*DISCLAIMER*USE AT OWN RISK

Didn't go too well. MacOS gets a kernel panic, Vista automatically reboots and Linux somehow boots, but without ACPI. These are some dmesg messages, if you can figure out something useful from them:

CODE

[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000cffa0000 - 00000000cffae000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000cffae000 - 00000000cfff0000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xFFFF8100000F9C10 checksum 0
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F9C10, 0014 (r0 ACPIAM)
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDT CFFA0000, 003C (r1 042508 RSDT1012 20080425 MSFT       97)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP CFFA0200, 0084 (r1 042508 FACP1012 20080425 MSFT       97)
[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT CFFA0440, 5ACD (r1  1AAAA 1AAAA000        0 INTL 20050930)
[    0.000000] ACPI Error (tbutils-0294): Invalid signature 0x0 for ACPI table [FACS] [20070126]
[    0.000000] ACPI: APIC CFFA0390, 006C (r1 042508 APIC1012 20080425 MSFT       97)
[    0.000000] ACPI: MCFG CFFA0400, 003C (r1 042508 OEMMCFG  20080425 MSFT       97)
[    0.000000] ACPI: OEMB CFFAE040, 0071 (r1 042508 OEMB1012 20080425 MSFT       97)
[    0.000000] ACPI: HPET CFFA5F40, 0038 (r1 042508 OEMHPET  20080425 MSFT       97)
[    0.000000] ACPI: GSCI CFFAE0C0, 2024 (r1 042508 GMCHSCI  20080425 MSFT       97)
[    0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
[    0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[    0.000000] ACPI: HPET id: 0xffffffff base: 0xfed00000
[    0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[   10.834783] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
[   10.834818] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
[   11.247548] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[   11.248375] ACPI Exception (evevent-0169): AE_NO_MEMORY, Unable to initialize Global Lock handler [20070126]
[   11.248378] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
[   14.816033] ACPI Error (hwregs-0778): Unsupported address space: 80 [20070126]
[   14.816046] ACPI Error (hwregs-0778): Unsupported address space: 80 [20070126]
[   14.816094] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[   14.816682] PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO

THe KiNG

May 31 2008, 11:40 AM

Well finally I manage to get BIOS.ROM from that damn .exe QBios file!
Was a PITA!
For those who have the same phoenix .exe installer i will write a short guide to save their time and pain...
1. To extract .exe file use Universal Extractor
2. To extract .cab file use ZipScan Evaluation, select overwrite all files on destination folder, the result will be a BIOS folder and a lot of nonimportant files, go to Bios folder (save Bios folder in a safe place) you will see a file named PQVF.VFD, that file is a virtual floppy image and contain the BIOS.ROM
3. Download Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) for Windows, install it, then create a virtual floppy using maximum size 2.8 MB(same as VFD file) assing a letter for it and mount that PQVF.VFD file. Bang! Now you can see that BIOS.ROM in mounted image/floppy drive ex. A:
4. Copy that BIOS.ROM file in a safe place and you can start playng with Phoenix BIOS Editor 2.2.0.1 for Windows 98/NT/2K/XP/VISTA(latest one i can find

) @ your own risk of course, or make a request.
5. After you finish edit it (or someone for u) add/replace it back in that mounted floppy and eject/close that PQVF.VFD file, copy/replace it in Bios folder and launch/pray executable file, in my case BenQ.exe, your computer will restart and start flashing your moded bios.
I hope this miniguide will be useful b/c at least for me was a PITA to get that bios file, i have to install a lot of archive manager, hex editors, cab extractors, instalshield...etc. to figure out what to use...

For fun here is a screen shot of expensive app(~6000$) of Phoenix BIOS Editor to see what you can do:

The reason for editing bios is b/c i can't boot from any usb device...so i try to figure out what can be done in bios to enable this feature and other...

All I need now is master Kabyl to teach me what to do next and why in pheonix editor ACPI editor is greyed out...

So here is my proper request:
Laptop Model: BenQ JoyBook R55v
Bios ROM file: In attachement
Know issue: can't boot from any usb device, wrong fsb detection on os x(works/detected on boot with chameleon but still reported bad on system profiler, works with Superhai smbios) and if I can unhide some bios features will be great, also some powermanagement...

Thanks,

XyZ

Flaviopiu

May 31 2008, 04:55 PM

I´m trying to connect to your site...
The site is showing " Error establishing a database connection "

Can you point me the link for ASUS G2S Bios ?
The original one is http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/G2S/G2S300AS.zip

Thank you very much

I have found one working link
G2S moded Bios ver. 300
http://rapidshare.com/files/103965528/G2S300AS_mod.zip.html

thnx...

roboguy

May 31 2008, 10:26 PM

If you could modify this bios please.
much appreciated.

link

rapidshare link

Cheers Roboguy

edit* issue is that cant boot vanilla without cpus=1 infinite reboots

mitch_de

Jun 1 2008, 12:06 PM

A bit of topic but has to do with wrong CPU detection in OS X
Maybe its easier to mod the kernel for fixing that wrong BIOS informations ?

My MSI P965 NEO-F do NOT need CPU=1 for booting (vanilla, modded kernel). OK

But ABout this Mac crashes, were System Profiler and all other things run.

Maybe others have also informations for perhaps kernel professionals to get wrong BIOS fixed in the kernel (sure then its not vanilla).

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=108078

Hacktrix2006

Jun 1 2008, 04:37 PM

hi Kabyl! please can you do my the 303 bios for the F3E as i have a pyrn core cpu on its way and i need the 303 bios to run it. Pretty please!!!!! Also if you tell me how you do it i can help out!

Link is http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F3E/F3E303AS.zip.

The 301 bios worked lovely so i trust you.

vladlen

Jun 1 2008, 04:58 PM

Hi, Kabyl!

Please Help Modified BIOS for Asus U1E
http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/U1E/U1E204AS.zip

Thanks.

Ruben.ru

Jun 3 2008, 09:49 AM

Kabyl, please help me with Samsung R20 laptop bios.

Bios can be downloaded here

CPU: Intel T2130 (@1.86 Ghz)
Chipset: ATI RS600ME + SB600
Graphics Controller ATI RS600ME Chipset Integrated Graphic Processor (IGP) (ATI® Radeon Xpress 1250)

Thanks

EvolutionR

Jun 3 2008, 10:21 AM

Is my Gigabyte P965 DS3 motherboard REV 1 can detect all the 4 cores?
Any help on the hack bios?

I'm using Kalyway 10.5.2 clone PC

motorhead6776

Jun 4 2008, 02:50 AM

i dono how the dell laptop issue is coming but i have a latitude d820, w/ c2d T7200 and nvidia quadro nvs120m.

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/glo...amp;file=244622

thats the bios file and the problem im having is that it shows 0 processors w/ 1 core.

acdcacdc

Jun 4 2008, 06:33 AM

Hi, Kabyl!

Please Help Modified BIOS for Supermicro X7DA8
CPU;Xeon E5320 *2
Graphics ; Nvdia 7300GT
Bios can be downloaded http://www.supermicro.com/support/bios/bios_zip/7DA83208.zip
Thanks!

montserrat

Jun 4 2008, 12:46 PM

Hello, Kabyl.
I've got Asus Z7S WS board with i5400 chipset (Seaburg), one X5472 Xeon CPU and ATI X1950 Pro graphics card. The problem is that I'm unable to boot with ACPI APIC option enabled in bios (constant reboot with Jaguar's appleapic.kext/appleacpiplatform.kext or stuck at the "MAC Frame work successfully initialized" with newer kexts) and without that option I've got 0 processors and 1 core ((. Attached is the original BIOS. Thanks very much.

BIOS: http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket.../IC40A00201.zip

ilmix

Jun 4 2008, 02:43 PM

hi kabyl
can you tell me the procedure to mod my bios? with linux and iasl i can see the dsdt.dsl file and mod it but i don't know how to re-write my original bios with this mods. my laptop-pc is an asus x51l intel gm965 chipset and x3100 video card
thank you

Ruud

Jun 5 2008, 03:54 PM

He Kabyl, i hope you have some time to take a look at my bios.

Im using a BTO (build to order) notebook

My cpu = core2 duo 8300 2.4 Ghz
Graphics card = nvidia 8600 gt 512 mb
it's a intel santa rosa platform

the link of the bios
ftp://ftp.n4all.nl/Drivers/15V125+%20HDMI...%20BIOS%200.29/

problem im having is when im using vanilla kernel, it can only use 1 core or it keeps rebooting at startup. No problem wit the kabyl kernel.
Hope i can use vanilla kernel, because apple uses santa rosa for some of there macbooks.

ps.. i dont know if the notebook uses a bios or efi, this because the bios says "ares efi version 0.29", but on top it says bios.

Geraldy

Jun 5 2008, 06:03 PM

Hi Kabyl,

Can you please help me modifying the BIOS of my laptop.

Link : http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F3Sg/F8SNG303AS.zip

Asus F8Sn
Graphic Card : Nvidia GeForce 9500M GS
CPU : Intel Duo T9300

Thank You for the work you are doing !

Tin_man_0

Jun 6 2008, 03:23 AM

Still no dell support yet? I've gotta Inspiron 1525 lappy.

runandrew

Jun 6 2008, 06:01 AM

Hey, could I have a modified Asus W7-S bios?

Here is the bios link W7-S BIOS 305

Thank You!!!

pippo choi

Jun 6 2008, 03:06 PM

Please modify bios of acer 5583 to get two cores working

Hacktrix2006

Jun 7 2008, 03:11 PM

Hi Kabyl just went to look at your website on http://osrom.net/ and the bios section has gone?

roboguy

Jun 7 2008, 11:47 PM

yeah wheres it gone, whats happened

ghaith22

Jun 9 2008, 01:23 AM

hi all it seems to be deleted the mod.bios on Kabyl sit

however i take the linke and google it and you can see the list without downloading any

plz plz plz any one can help by sending the file for MSI P35 platinum

thank you

Mr-Mur

Jun 9 2008, 07:37 AM

Hi, Kabyl

Won't you patch my HP dc5700M's system BIOS?

Click to view attachment

This is Hewlett-Packard's desktop, using BTX motherboard ASUS P5BW-BTX.

Thanks, kabyl bolsun ishing

mariobg

Jun 9 2008, 09:10 AM

Hi Kabyl, i readed all 22 pages, but don't undestand - do you make modified bios for HP Compaq NX7300?

p.s. Your page with bioses didn't exist now. 10x for your time.

ghaith22

Jun 9 2008, 09:26 AM

hi

plz some one send me the kabyl file for msi platinum p35

http://osrom.net/files/BIOS.mod/MB/MSI/734...od.by.Kabyl.zip

that link is not workinking and thank you kabyl for hard work you are the one

Balamut

Jun 9 2008, 11:16 PM

Ok.... I give up

Tried everything and almost burned down my Mobo ....
Need your help man,

Asus Z7S
Bios Revision 0201

Z7S WS 0201 BIOS

Gradius

Jun 11 2008, 04:48 PM

QUOTE(asstastic @ Mar 9 2008, 06:33 AM)

Both cores working on ACER Aspire5672 with modded bios.

Why you EVER posted this, if I never saw the link or something ?

Btw, anyone got Aspire 5672 modded BIOS? I want to put a T7400 or T7600 CPU on it, but I need to know if it works or not.

Gradius

Gradius

Jun 11 2008, 05:27 PM

I'm using Phoenix BIOS Editor Pro 2.2.0.1 (the last I could find), when I open ZB1_3239.wph (the last BIOS for 5672) I get:

An unsupported module class "K" was found at offset E547F
An unsupported module class "*" was found at offset E542A
An unsupported module class "Q" was found at offset C4A93
An unsupported module class "H" was found at offset C06F3

And when I look into ACPI Editor, I just get empty content on all: ACPI0.AWL, ACPI1.BIN, ACPI2.ROM, ACPI3.ROM and ACPI4.ROM files.

Edit: ok, managed to get ACPI content, here is:

CODE

  Scope(\_PR) {
    Processor(CPU0,0x00,0x00001010,0x06){}
    Processor(CPU1,0x01,0x00001010,0x06){}
  }

There's NO alias at all. Any idea?

Gradius

Ashand

Jun 11 2008, 06:13 PM

Hi Kabyl, I hope you are my saver here! Its been days trying to install Leo (10.5.1,10.5.2 All ISO versions) on my Asus Laptop A8Js with no success (error- still waiting for root device) I read some posts about it and try some of the things guys wrote here but with no success...So maybe I can use a modified bios to my laptop than i can finaly installing Leo

Here is the latest A8Js bios
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/A8Js/A8Jsv211AS.zip
Thanks in advanced!

Gradius

Jun 11 2008, 06:28 PM

Just to let you know, Kabyl's joined on 16/February/2008 and his last post was in May 28 2008 (04:00 PM), that makes 14 days (2 full weeks), so I guess he give up or run away (lol?).

Gradius

ghaith22

Jun 11 2008, 09:22 PM

i still need that moded bios

plz kabyl answar us and send us the new link to the moded bios page

or send it by mail or whatever plz help

MSI platinum P35 -----
Q6600 2.4 Gh
Nvidea - 6600GT

Kabyl

Jun 12 2008, 01:13 AM

QUOTE(Gradius @ Jun 11 2008, 07:28 PM)

Just to let you know, Kabyl's joined on 16/February/2008 and his last post was in May 28 2008 (04:00 PM), that makes 14 days (2 full weeks), so I guess he give up or run away (lol?).

Gradius

you're not good with numbers, eh?
and no, you guessed wrong.

Jack Zhou

Jun 12 2008, 01:25 AM

QUOTE(Kabyl @ Jun 11 2008, 06:13 PM)

you're not good with numbers, eh?
and no, you guessed wrong.

So what's up, then? Can you give us the situation? I made a request 5 pages back... and I've been waiting for more than a month, I think. I really appreciate what you're doing for this community, but please don't keep the rest of us in the dark.

mitch_de

Jun 12 2008, 04:47 AM

Kabyl makes that work for free !
Maybe users which want it faster, can pay him some work-charge to get priority ?
There are too much NBs and too much Bios Updates to get all of them fast and safe! patched.

Ashand

Jun 12 2008, 04:55 AM

mitch_de, if only he ask....no problems here...

tripkip

Jun 12 2008, 11:24 AM

Can we make an index of modded bioses with exact modelnumbers etc, so people can donwload the already patched bios files?

I have a HP Pavilion dv9540eb, the bios file is an exe(phoenix bios), dont think you can do much with that, so what now?

AEZ2007

Jun 12 2008, 02:39 PM

Kabyl,

First off, I would like to thank you for all the hard work on unraveling this deeply-seated problem with so many laptops.

I also have a ASUS-M50SA (as did someone a page or two back) and I decided to take a crack at it myself.

I've got a little farther than I thought I would.

I have:

Gotten ahold of AMI (that's what this machine uses) BIOS tools.
Extracted the DSDT
Fixed the DSDT
Recompiled the DSDT into a DSDT.aml

I've been able to piece this together with google and old Linux sites from the days when Linux commonly meant extracting and recompiling DSDT.

But I am a little lost when I reimplant it into the rom file for flashing. (how to get it back into a flashable bios form). I have a toolkit of AMI bios tools apparently up to date enough, but I haven't found which commands reimport the DSDT file.

Can you maybe just let the community know what tools you're using to do this (if they're available) even just names would give us something to google.

I have tried CBROM32, MODBIN, etc. but I cannot figure out where or how to insert the repaired DSDT (i.e. the DSDT.aml file Intel's ASL compiler made)...

I have mostly been getting size warnings.

Thanks for any help, tips, etc. I'm quite willing to Do-It-Myself, but I feel like I'm snagged on the last couple of steps.

Thanks. Efforts like yours make OS X x86 possible for the rest of us.

david tsu

Jun 13 2008, 09:54 PM

I will post an instructions doing this mod for AMI bios in a few days. I think teaching someone to fish is better then feeding them for life. I will find some time and write up the way I have extract the DSDT, decompile and inserted the DSDT back. Hopefully if Kabyl is not busy, he can give us some hints if I did something wrong.

About the Dell laptops. I am sitting on a laptop that I absolutely can not get osx to run without cpus=1 also. So far I have extracted the ROM but can not find any editor or find any DSDT strings inside the ROM. If someone can find a software to edit || decompress || decrypt the ROM, I can start working on it. But for now I think some how having the kernel read from an external DSDT file when it load (like linux) would be the best choice.

-DTsu

Kabyl

Jun 13 2008, 10:16 PM

That would be nice, David, thanks

Jack Zhou

Jun 14 2008, 06:18 AM

QUOTE(david tsu @ Jun 13 2008, 02:54 PM)

Thank you, I will gladly wait.

llauqsd

Jun 14 2008, 06:30 AM

Thank you David, this is greatly appreciated! Do you know if it is possible to change reported processor frequencies. My bios reports 998mhz as the only other frequency below 2.0ghz and therefore appleacpicputhrottle.kext won't work.

sonotone

Jun 14 2008, 10:19 AM

QUOTE(david tsu @ Jun 13 2008, 11:54 PM)

About the Dell laptops. I am sitting on a laptop that I absolutely can not get osx to run without cpus=1 also. So far I have extracted the ROM but can not find any editor or find any DSDT strings inside the ROM. If someone can find a software to edit || decompress || decrypt the ROM, I can start working on it. But for now I think some how having the kernel read from an external DSDT file when it load (like linux) would be the best choice.

-DTsu

hi,
I've managed to boot with booth cores on my Inspiron 9400: description here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...st&p=775980
It seem's to work if you install kalyway 10.5.2 without patches and use Stock Kernel. After 10.5.3 update and manual patching, it's still working.
So, it boot but with critical graphics shuttering, witch fixed after sleep out. I don't exactly know witch kexts are incrimined, i don't want to reinstall it again (to afraid to loose it!)., but if i have time, i will make some tests on a external HD.
Anyway, it's not very clean but it's a good solution for now.

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