[Asus Maximus IX Apex and Coffee Lake Cpu's !]

1 hour ago, gkmltd said:

do I need to rename of the bios?

creative.rom, but please look for Alex@ro's guide in the first post.

[Asus Maximus IX Apex and Coffee Lake Cpu's !]

5 hours ago, jjxaker said:

What exactly does this give??? I do not see the logic in this procedure ...

The BIOS can be update without performing this procedure.

I think it flash rom file from usb stick as the programmer would do it. I needed this to downgrade ME.

25 minutes ago, gkmltd said:

Timmee if I understand u correctly I need to take the CPU with the mod of Splave and put it on the z270 and make flashback with jjxaker Mod bios ?

This way I did it, but maybe flash could be done for example with afudos, if the current ME version is old enough. Before flash, I used FD44Editor to set original values for MAC, System UUID and Motherboard S/N to jjxaker Mod bios.

[Asus Maximus IX Apex and Coffee Lake Cpu's !]

Cpu pads guided in this post 

 

 

And mobo bios pads are the same that in the “original” mod posted by Alex. Thank you Alex 

Tested modding M10A bios version 1301 with jjxaker tips and got AURA working this time. Here is screen capture from the test run. 

 

[Asus Maximus IX Apex and Coffee Lake Cpu's !]

Thank you jjxaker. You were brave enough to test M10A Bios Rog-modules with M9A. Bios is working with 8700k and finally hyperthreading I flashed bios by using flashback and screwdriver to connect bios flash pads (pads surrounding covered by electrical tape). Cpu pads are connected with silver paint and isolated with electrical tape. So no soldering is needed to the motherboard.

One minor issue. If I open the bios file in UEFITool it shows error  "parseSection: PE32 image with invalid DOS signature" and it is under section 91B4D9C1-141C-4824-8D02-3C298E36EB3F  -> EE4E5898-3914-4259-9D6E-DC7BD79403CF. Can be fixed by replacing that section from M10A bios.

jjxaker, could you tell me which are the AURA-section GUIDS to replace for mod? Are there other than E98D33CD-1AEB-46B1-A4B6-0BB4CC655C26, BC327DBD-B982-4F55-9F79-056A D7E987C5 and 611F7FDD-C7C6-4CFE-8072-2155D7B25A80 to make AURA work? I made bios mod from M10A bios version 1401, but AURA not working.