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

I have an apex 9 with 9900KF. I was benching my GTX 750 on DICE and out of nowhere the MB started to smoke. Should I replace the transistor or just pull it out and the board will work properly? If I have to replace it, do you have any idea what kind of transistor it is? Thanks

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

My bios version is 2402 (2503 is not working, I have no idea why) and how can I install TurboV Core please ? When I start Setup it says like this platform is not compatible. 9900KF, Apex IX (BIOS ver. 2402)

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

On 6/15/2018 at 6:34 PM, Alex@ro said:

As you could see already  coffe lake cpu 's can run on the Asus Maximus IX Apex motherboard. 

 

Full steps required for making this happen : 

 

#1 Hardware mod

 

 

Do the following modifications :

Short the following pads in order to flash the bios file : 

 

Solder the following points:

 

 

#2 Bios flash

 

Download bios file from here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YbY993uzGtFBy3y-IBPtT_bLtYnF4H3T

 

EDIT 16/10/2018

 

BIOS 0094 Added support for future processors

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XF59GuJbHDmCmc8JWZnZGTpzrMqhCBoI/view?usp=sharing

 

Rename it as creative.rom , copy it on a fat32 formatted drive  and flash it using USB Flashback method.

 

NOTE!

 

Do the bios flash after hardware mods are done  !!! Soldering cpu pads is not needed  . 

 

Known issue is that HT does not work currently on 6c cpu's hence it is disabled by default. After everything is set-up board will work with cofee lake based cpu's as well as with older cpu's without issue.

 

Have fun !