Nice work you did on your BIOS. Current LAN options, did even set the correct CPU voltage. But darn: Switching CSM back on did nothing for boot device recognition, my mbr windows installation remains unbootable on both NVME drives (tried M.2 and PCIe x4). An Win 11 GPT drive, however, is recognized. On 2nd thought this might have been the same problem I had with your older image, when I didn’t think to test any new installation specifically. Could it be that parts of your CSM hard deactivation overrule settings made in the BIOS?
BTW I just noticed your specific SSD: The PM981 was that one exception which brought its own option rom, making it bootable as an AHCI or PCIe device without need for functional NVME support, wasn’t it? I always wanted to try Win98 on one of those. But more importantly it might be that your system skips the whole NVME recognition that could be involved in my problems.
I am now trying to advance my crude 2022 based attempt. With all CoffeeTime mods applied it did at least recognize an USB stick in the SATAe front panel as a boot device, though the very same drive was absent in windows 30 s later. More on stability, performance and shut downs (or lack thereoff^^) tomorrow.
Shutdown problems rarer, but still there. Hang up often occured so late that windows did not remark on it in next boot. Once I got a bluescreen indicating power management - perhaps ACPI tables weren’t the only thing off?
USB/SATAe will work after deactivating and reactivating USB device in windows. Can’t be driver issue, though, because windows just sees a generic PCIe link and and ASMedia controller - the very same setup used with the very same driver for M8Rs own USB 3.1 ports without causing trouble there.
Next attempt: Got CoffeeTime99 to replace IME in Asus’ 3802.cap and backflashed that one. (still no chance of modding my original 3802 dump, though)
Vcore now too low, immediate errors in Prime95 and instability afterwards caused UEF corruption. Had to manually reset - and now feel confirmed in giving bonus for external reset switches (which M8R lacks) in my reviews.
+100 mV ended in 1.46 V in Prime95 and overheating.
+50 mV gives 1.42 V under load and 1.12 idle. Seems stable, but really: 1.37 without offset were insufficient for 4.5 GHz?? I had planned to overclock and the 92 °C core temperature with 30 °C water intake observed at 1.42 V are already unsustainable.
Turbo is still broken. While the system goes to 4.5 GHz now (3.9 before) all cores are still synced, making high single core clocks at reasonable energy conversion impossible.
HWInfo package power now moves in the correct direction and deviates only about 10% from AIDA. But both appear too low, indicating 190/210 W with 8 core Prime95, while PSU reports 310 W input into VRM. Considering the temperature problems, the PSU readings seem more realistic.
all done perfectly on intel 9600kf and z170a gaming m7 but the problem here is that the CPU clock is actually stuck on 0.8 and the XMP + game boost is not working, tried to overclock it manually but it’s the same,
not so stable, if I restart it, it might go for the windows or it doesn’t show anything and the Debug shows D6 error.
idk what to do to solve the clock issue and XMP
plz help!
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EDIT: it reads the basic clock of the CPU 3.7 on the top right corner but if u look at the clock itself it show 0.8
Was looking to run a QQLS with my Gigabyte Z170- Gaming 3 but after reviewing the VRM spec started looking for a higher end board and found a good deal on an ASUS TUF Z270 Mark 1. My AliExpress seller informed me that on the Gigabyte board I would just need to flash the modified BIOS they provided but looking around here it seems I’ll need a programmer. Any suggestions on which to purchase in US? Where can I find info on using the programmer on the TUF Mark 1?
I recently got an i9-9880hk mutant cpu from Aliexpress and I managed to get it working on a Asus Z170 D3 board.
I used coffeetime to patch the bios (I dumped it from the board using a CH341A programmer). I managed to get it working only with a specific ME version and then disabling that.
The version is 11.8.77.3664 Corporate, later I found out that starting with 11.8, coffelake CPUs aren’t supported on the board (if enabled).
Since I have access to the programmer, I thought it would be easy to change back. No dice.
I’ve tried many combinations:
Leaving the original version 11.6.13.1212 and enable/disable.
Upgrading to many other versions said to be compatible with coffee lake cpus.
I’ve tried using MEInject, to put back the older version into the modded bios (so that the filesystem state shows initialized - thinking it’s the same system)
I’m thinking to use a supported CPU on the board with the original bios to see if that boots next, but this is more of a hail mary and would be quite annoying (needing to remove the spacers from the socket)
Does anybody have any hints/pointers?
I looked over many threads but the amount of information is overwhelming.
LE: I just had a look at the bios the folks from the Aliexpress shop provided, and that too has the same ME version.
@reactive Hi, I read your posts about G20 machines and found the creativity in the modifications on the two different G20 BIOS/UEFI exciting - thanks for sharing.
Having read it, I now have the impression that it might be relatively challenging to modify the manufacturer BIOS/UEFI exactly as you have done (because I’m not sure which version it’s based on in your case, 1001, 1202 or 1402 and what other customisations may have been applied besides the CoffeeTime patch).
So I would like to enquire - might it be possible for you to upload the file of this functional version of the BIOS/UEFI (for the G20CI with initialisation of 16 threads)?
Since I actually have the same machine/mainboard type and would also like to install one i9-9900k (SRG19, R0), I think it would suit perfectly. The only changes I would make would be to the entries for the MAC address, serial number, etc. (of course you could replace these values with placeholders before uploading, for privacy reasons).
Hello I have a QTJ0 8c/16t 10th Comet Lake BGA1440-to-1151 (reported as Coffee Lake on CPU-Z) and I want to know if it will work on a z390 motherboard right after adding only the microcode or do I have to patch other parts of the z390 BIOS?
I see people have modded z270 (not just z170s); but does anybody here have experience modding 300-series chipsets like z370 or z390 for the BGA1440-to-1151 modded CPUs?
The board is an iBuyPower OEM AsRock Phantom Gaming z390 4S/IB
I opened the BIOS image on CoffeeTime 0.99 and the 1440 patch is not clickable. (see screenshot)
I see that I just need to downgrade the ME and add all the microcodes I presume that is all. The other issue is that my CPU a “10th Comet lake/Coffee Lake ES” but from all the microcodes available I do not see any “9th/10th Gen Engineering Sample microcodes”. I assume the 9th is gen microcodes are going to work? Anybody familiar with these so-called 10th-Gen Comet Lake BGA1440 cpus from AliExpress and which microcodes they actually use?
UPDATE: I just contacted the AliExpress guy that sold me the QTJ0 and he says that z390 is not supported for modding, that only z170, z270, z370, and B365 are supported. Is that correct?
I flashed the modded bios bios chip of a Asrock z370 Pro 4 and put in a BGA1440 mutant CPU, however when I power on the computer I get no video.
Has anybody heard of an issue like this, with the BGA1440 modded CPU? I cant get any video out :(.
When I power the motherboard, the fans spin and that is all.
UPDATE:
It was my RAM. I was using a Chinese RAM adapter that adapts Laptop SO-DIMM to DIMM.
I was trying to create some kind of Chinese mutant PC but it didnt work. The CPU did work but not the RAM adapter lol…
I think those Adapters require that the RAM have a higher voltage in the BIOS. So they are not good for first-time BIOS setup. Or the SODIMM was simply not compatible with the motherboard so the adapter does not work lol.
I mod bios for Gigabyte B250 D3H mainboard. Now the BIOS doesn’t recognize the boot part of the SSD, but when I plug in the USB it still receives it. Now I’m back to the original BIOS with the same problem, what should I do? https://i.postimg.cc/WNPvYTt6/IMG-20240117-155424.jpg
@luudanxi Welcome to the Win-Raid Forum!
If the boot partition is missing on the SSD, there went something wrong during the OS installation.
You can either repair it by using a tool like EasyBCD or do a fresh install of the OS (tip: remove the USB Flash Drive during the first reboot).
No no, the BCD is still there, I press F12 and I can boot into Windows in the “no text” area… but the bios doesn’t recognize it. This is the second motherboard I have had problems with, the previous one was also Gigabyte.
EDIT: So where is the Kingston UEFI disk… understood?
The EFI partition must be corrupted, the bios boot manager doesn’t see it as healthy UEFI to load so it is displayed as regular disk, and this is irrelevant for the screen capture of windows boot manager…
EDIT: “No words”… sorry dont know what you mean
UEFI OS can boot in legacy…usually, sometimes it cannot due to drivers.
No, my SSD uses UEFI and has partial boot… it’s just that the bios doesn’t recognize it
And I checked the “no words” box and it still booted into Windows, but it took a lot of effort.
“Sorry, I use Google to translate, so sometimes I don’t fully express the meaning”
But more importantly it might be that your system skips the whole NVME recognition that could be involved in my problems.
