ASUS E45M1-I Deluxe GOP module insertion

Hi!

My HTPC has an ASUS E45M1-I Deluxe mainboard. I updated the AMD RAID ROM from version 3.2 to 3.3.1540.19.
There is also a VBIOS but without GOP driver. The BIOS has no “Fast Boot Mode” setting, too.
Even more interesting, it has no AHCI ROM, only a RAID ROM. But this board doesn’t even support RAID configurations.

Is it possible to insert a GOP driver?
Is the AMD GOP driver that comes with UBU an universial binary?
Would the insertion of a GOP driver bring some benefits even for a mainboard without “Ultra Fast Boot Mode” support?

Here is the output of UBU:

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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
Brand ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 6950AFFF-6EE3-11DD-AD8B-0800200C9A66
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD RAID MISC.SIG GUID 9BD5C81D-096C-4625-A08B-405F78FE0CFC
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD RAID MISC.SIG GUID 9BD5C81D-096C-4625-A08B-405F78FE0CFD
 

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1 AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
OROM AMD RAID MISC 4392 - 3.3.1540.19
EFI AMD RAID - Not present
2 AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
OROM VBIOS AMD - 012.036.000.009.000000
EFI GOP Driver - Not present
3 LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, Realtek, BCM, QCA
OROM Realtek Boot Agent - 2.61
AMD AGESA CPU Support
EFI AMD AGESA OntaroPI - 1.0.9.0
9 Look the Version of all UBU modules in VerDID.txt
0 Exit
Press ENTER - Re-Scanning ALL EFI modules.
 


Best regards,
mr_nuub

EDIT: If I select 5 to auto-update the OROMs, only the one with GUID ending in "FC" gets updated.
As you can see above, there is also also a GUID ending with "FD".
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        AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
 
1 - Update to v3.3.1540.19 RAID OROM
5 - Update all modules
0 - Exit Main Menu
 
Enter number:5
* Update OROM AND RAID Device ID 4392 ...Ok!
* Update EFI AND MISC 4393_FC.ffs GUID 9BD5C81D-...-FC -...Ok!
 
OROM AMD RAID MISC 4392 - 3.3.1540.19
 

Probably yes, but that does not automaticly mean, that it will work.

You should ask SoniX.

I doubt, that you will notice the difference as long as your BIOS doesn’t offer the option to completely disable the "Compatibility Support Module".


Unfortunately, this BIOS does not support full UEFI mode, so insert GOPDriver and other EFI-modules will not give any results.
Module "MISC - FD" is updated only when OROM 1002-4393, but it is not, so this module is not updated.