OCX.Chile Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 (edited) Finally did mods for M9A here + 0084 BIOS. Primary PCI-e working w/o issues and showing 16x 3.0 @16x 3.0 with last BIOS update Used an arduino connector for left mod and a wire for right one. Edited June 22, 2018 by OCX.Chile Quote
Ilpingu Posted June 25, 2018 Posted June 25, 2018 (edited) Does anyone know if this bios have the usb o.c. detection enabled ? Edited June 25, 2018 by Ilpingu Quote
Slovak_Killer Posted June 27, 2018 Posted June 27, 2018 Thanks Alex, nice work. Tried with 8086K under Dice, everything works fine :) Quote
jjxaker Posted July 3, 2018 Posted July 3, 2018 (edited) Base: Asus Maximus X Apex for Maximus IX Apex@BIOS MOD 1503 Support CPU: Skylake/Kaby Lake/Coffee Lake Latest Bios Microcode: Intel CPU SKL 0xC6, KBL 0x8E, CFL 8 Core 0x84 / 6 Core 0x96 / 4 Core 0x8E. Intel RST 16.5.0.3487 Intel VBIOS 1058/GOP 9.0.1080 Intel Lan UNDI 0.0.19/Lan OROM 0.1.13/Lan GBE 0.5 Intel ME Firmware 11.7.0.1129 All BIOS Region Unlock, for further updates, the programmer(UBF) is not needed. All components of the board are working, including RGB Light, on-board graphics card, HT, PCI-e. To mod flash through the programmer! usb bios flashback not test... *update. Flash UBF it work M10A_MOD_ver1503.rar Edited July 9, 2018 by jjxaker 3 3 Quote
sabishiihito Posted July 4, 2018 Posted July 4, 2018 Wouldn't that require you do de-solder a BIOS chip from the board? Quote
GtiJason Posted July 4, 2018 Posted July 4, 2018 19 minutes ago, sabishiihito said: Wouldn't that require you do de-solder a BIOS chip from the board? I think you could use this, a SOIC8 SOP8 Flash Chip IC Test Clips Socket Adpter BIOS/24/25/93 Programmer 1 Quote
GtiJason Posted July 4, 2018 Posted July 4, 2018 1 hour ago, gkmltd said: That mode is for the Apex z270? It is, his cpu-z mainboard tab is showing chipset as Z270. Only says Apex X because it's a modded X bios Quote
gkmltd Posted July 4, 2018 Posted July 4, 2018 3 hours ago, GtiJason said: It is, his cpu-z mainboard tab is showing chipset as Z270. Only says Apex X because it's a modded X bios Tnx jason Quote
Timmee Posted July 4, 2018 Posted July 4, 2018 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. 1 Quote
jjxaker Posted July 4, 2018 Posted July 4, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Timmee said: "parseSection: PE32 image with invalid DOS signature" It's completely unimportant, you will not experience any problems with the new RAID module... The one that you take from Asus it is very outdated. Asus always uses out-of-date modules. The firm is such, all through the ass do. 2 hours ago, Timmee said: could you tell me which are the AURA-section GUIDS to replace for mod? Only: E98D33CD-1AEB-46B1-A4B6-0BB4CC655C26 -Replace body PE Image! BC327DBD-B982-4F55-9F79-056AD7E987C5 -Replace body PE Image! 611F7FDD-C7C6-4CFE-8072-2155D7B25A80 -Replace raw section Also I recommend to completely remove GUID 63F23E9D-5FDA-415E-9C2A-64C4E2A6ECE8 it contains a newer version of ME FW Region 11.8x and an auto-update mechanism that can make the system startup impossible. because in newer versions of Intel blocked the launch CFL on z270/z170/H/B... Edited July 4, 2018 by jjxaker 1 Quote
Ilpingu Posted July 4, 2018 Posted July 4, 2018 4 hours ago, Timmee said: 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. Hi, sorry, but which cpu pad you mean ? And bios flash pads on the mobo, are the same that in the “original” mod posted by Alex, is needed to solder? Quote
Timmee Posted July 4, 2018 Posted July 4, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited July 4, 2018 by Timmee 1 Quote
jjxaker Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 (edited) On 6/15/2018 at 7:34 PM, Alex@ro said: Short the following pads in order to flash the bios file : What exactly does this give??? I do not see the logic in this procedure ... The BIOS can be update without performing this procedure. Edited July 5, 2018 by jjxaker Quote
gkmltd Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 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 ? Quote
Timmee Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited July 5, 2018 by Timmee Quote
gkmltd Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 3 minutes ago, Timmee said: I think it flash rom file from usb stick as the programmer would do it. I needed this to downgrade ME. This way I did it, but maybe flash could be done for example with afudos, if the current ME version is old enough. do I need to rename of the bios? Quote
Timmee Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited July 5, 2018 by Timmee Quote
Doc.Brown Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 Original method works without CPU soldering and isolate pads,is it needed to do now with the MXA bios to have HT worked ? 1 Quote
jjxaker Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Timmee said: I think it flash rom file from usb stick as the programmer would do it. I needed this to downgrade ME. Who would have thought that UBF knows how to work with the ME Region...? Why then does Asus initially block this, where it is more logical that the UBF is replaced by a programmer. Without the UBF HW MOD it is impossible to restore the fee if electricity is turned off during the renewal of the ME Region.... he Alex@ro could not learn about bypassing the UBF and other independently, this is clearly suggested to him by someone from Asus. 1 Quote
Alex@ro Posted July 6, 2018 Author Posted July 6, 2018 1. No need to isolate cpu pads when doing the soldering on the motherboard . 2. HT works on all cpu's except the 6c ones with HT ... 8700/ 8700K, 3. Using the maximus X bios on z270 maximus IX , windows xp will not work. 1 Quote
jjxaker Posted July 6, 2018 Posted July 6, 2018 6 hours ago, Alex@ro said: Using the maximus X bios on z270 maximus IX , windows xp will not work. ? interesting statement. I certainly did not check, but I'm sure that this is a solved issue... Quote
GtiJason Posted July 7, 2018 Posted July 7, 2018 First thing I checked but no big deal since I can switch back to 0084 v2 when needed Quote
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