BIOS/UEFI Modding   BIOS Modding Guides and Problems

After a long wait, the UEFI GOP toolkit for Ampere and newer architectures is now officially available. This toolkit inherits most of the features from the Turing version and has been redesigned based on the changes int…

As many of us are aware, NVIDIA changed their firmware verification method starting from the Turing micro-architecture, rendering previous methods and update tools like GOP Updater ineffective. Through experience and ex…

Hi everyone, after month of Try and Error, and using the Internet Archive to build up a big library with AMD tech files and Guides from the New Rebel Heaven Forums I finally finished my guide which basically consists of…

Download Link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7372…d5p_f8n_mod.zip The brief How-tos are for AWARD BIOSes and mainly specific to this mod, but i hope others will also find it useful in other scenarios. Note that …

@ all experienced and courageous users, who want to update a PCI ROM module of their mainboard BIOS: Preliminary notes: Since I have some experience regarding the extraction and replacement of PCI ROM modules, which are…

After successfully modding Z170, Z270 BIOS for Coffee Lake, following the guide: [GUIDE] Coffee Lake CPUs on Skylake and Kaby Lake motherboards The Hyper-threading (HT) might not work with 6-cores CPUs (i7-8700K). Th…

Edit by Fernando on 08/30/2024: This Guide is outdated and needs to be completely re-written! Since I am no longer eligible to handle such tasks, we need someone else who is willing and able to start a new thread about…

Preliminary Note: Before you start with the BIOS modding procedure, you should have read carefully the “General Preparations for BIOS Modding” (>Link<). Guide about how to find/update/extract/insert an Option ROM mod…

There is also a video version available further down this post made by “tpc010" An update regarding the JSPI1 header on MSI motherboards is available at the end of this guide. What is a Raspberry PI? http://www.raspbe…

If you’re worried about flashing your motherboard with an SPI Programmer, then this is the guide for you. Each step is explained in detail, with pictures. We’ll go over everything, from buying your Programmer to flashing…

How to fix this specific Intel FPT Error 368 Write Protection @ BIOS region issue with Modified Asus BIOS, and other related locks Goal of this guide is specifically to change "Setup Variable" from BIOS setup module - (V…

Preliminary Notes: Before you start with the BIOS modding procedure, you should have read carefully the “General Preparations for BIOS Modding” (>Link<)If you are searching for an easier method to get some Option ROM or …

When using FTK (FPT) to flash the modified BIOS, we can face such a problem: [[File:_scr1.jpg|none|auto]] The solution of such problems have been described in different threads [GUIDE] Grub Fix Intel FPT Error 280 or…

since our win-raid already have some thread about run CoffeeLake on 100 and 200 series MB [GUIDE] Coffee Lake CPUs on Skylake and Kaby Lake motherboards Fixing PCI-Express for Coffee Lake CPUs on Sky/Kaby Lake non-Asro…

@ all users, who want to manually optimize the UEFI BIOS of their manboard/system: Since the company American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) doesn’t allow to offer their AMI Aptio UEFI MMTools for the public, you may have to use…

Preliminary Notes: Before you start with the BIOS modding procedure, it is strongle recommended to read carefully the separately published chapter “BIOS Modding: Introduction and Preparations” (>Link<). For users of a G…

I intend to share this useful tool which has low publicity so far. It’s a tool made by Insyde, citing from their pages: H2OEZE™: Easy BIOS Editor that helps edit binaries in the BIOS, including Option ROMs, driver binar…

Since SoniX has presented his wonderful UBU tool (look >here<) it has become very easy to modify any UEFI mode mainboard BIOS regarding their included Option ROM and EFI modules. Unfortunately the real risky part of the …

Premise: the guide below is NOT a transaction without risk and success can not be guaranteed. Therefore, I do not assume any responsibility for problems or damages resulting from the use of this guide. Those who do not…

There are many different SPI programmers on the market right now and almost any microcontroller-based board can be used as one, but this time I will speak about one of the cheapest programmers to date - CH341A-based. The…

I decided to investigate the error “Invalid BIOS image” that plagued some Gigabyte users. It turns out Gigabyte is using a structure called BiosDataRecord to perform an integrity check. It seems Gigabyte specific and it …

I’m not really the guy to run on unlimited supply of patience, so this will be more a mix of tutorial, tool to do the job for you, assistance (“as long as you don’t insist with unlimited/unrelated questions” kind) and AB…

@all: The original UBU Discussion thread, which had been started in September 2013, has become very voluminous. That is why I took the opportunity of SoniX’s release of his new v1.71 UBU development platform to start a n…

UNDER CONSTRUCTION Special thanks to Lost_N_BIOS for your help. PART 1 (CH341A details) This guide is based on the winbond 25Q64 bios chip. CH341A programmer: If you need an external 3.3v adapter you…