BIOS/UEFI Modding   BIOS Modding Guides and Problems

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…

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 …

@ 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: This Guide is only usable with old (non-UEFI) Award/Phoenix BIOSes (size: less than 1 MB).If the tool named CBROM should not work with your mainboard’s BIOS, you may have to use andyp’s PhoenixTool. Yo…

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…

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 can…