I just picked up a Z170 Asrock Gaming K6 off the Amazon prime day for 60 bucks. I already did the mod for the 8100 on a H110 some months ago, I have just read that is possible to run the 8700k now with the isolation pin mod and that’s not a problem at all. I just wanted to ask if anyone could provide me an already modded bios or explain me with patience how to select the 6 core microcode to flash it and which files I need in order to mod successfully since I kinda got lost in all these pages with some information coming from other threads/forums. Even a confirm that what I’ve done until now is right would be great. I injected via UBU the skylake microcode and the coffelake-6-core one. The rest of the bios is the stock one. Do I have to do anything else? If not, now I’ll just have to flash the bios and then insert the pin-modded 8700k?
@Yazon2006
probably ME issue. I had the same symptoms before I get donored bios from @mtothaj - it has ME version 11.6.10.1196 region with only FTPR partition (other partitions are removed from ME region). After this change I was able to boot.
@ItxLeo tried old one like 11.0.+ and 11.6.+ something. Not sure about microcodes and volumes. How to check if BIOS contain proper microcodes in both volumes?
@s.napi Hope you are right. Tonight will try more few times. How to check if BIOS has ME version 11.6.10.1196 region with only FTPR?
I’m asking for it because there are no information in header of current topic about how to validate modded BIOS and if all is ok. Basically I’m doing all in blind. It would be great if someone provide checklist of the must be items in BIOS to be sure that modification is done in proper way.
The easiest way is to extract ME region from mentioned bios (or any other working bios) and replace ME region in your bios with this one.
@Yazon2006 If you want to check just a version of ME it’s lying in Main menu of your bios.
Also, to replace ME version in newer bios with old one you’re free to extract ME region from older BIOS then you just insert older ME region in newer one using UEFITool.
Nope. Nor ME 11.0.10.1002 nor ME 11.6.13.1212 does not work in my case. Microcode 906EA ver 84. With 8600k motherboard doesn’t start. Only powerup for a half of a second.
@Yazon2006 I didn’t go far under 1xx board so i could be wrong. As i understood for any six core processor should be done physical pin mod. Did you do this mod?
@Yazon2006 This may be caused by a flashing error. I guess that you are using CH341A software which is shit. Try to use flashrom for windows.
@Wolf_Larsen I don’t think so. Validation process goes without any problems and also backup process of current woking BIOS works well.
I replaced microcodes and ME Firmware from already patched BIOSes of similar asus motherboards. Exactly the same result. It powers off after a half of a second after I push button.
I missed something important. Can’t get a clue what exactly.
Let’s just pull out a big topic here. Let’s say that in my Asrock Z170 Gaming K6 I flash the bios for NON-K skylake overclock, but I inject the coffee lake microcode on it. Could it BCLK overclock, since the ME is old and the bios can BCLK OC skylake?
Oh okay, I tought it was the bios. Sad thing ahahah
Unfortunstely It does not start by means of normal boot up. But the result is much more better than my previous experience. At least it does not power off immediatly) I wish I had post card analyzer to see what’s wrong. Anyway thanks a lot for helping me. I should return back borrowed 8600k. Thats why I’ll stop my experiments for a while. I anyone succeed in modifying asus z170-P for 6-cores coffe lake let me know. Thanks a lot to everyone.
@Dnatwork i too noticed some slightly tarnished pins on the socket of my Asus board when inspecting it in better lightning, however their positions differ compared to your case.
By the way thanks for your post #122. I moved on the new board (Asrock H110M DGS R3) and your instructions were helpful.
Apparently there are only two slots for cpu microcodes in the bios. Is it possible to increase the amount of slots?
@mcf , thanks for the thumbs up on the earlier posting. I would have liked more than two microcodes, but I never got around to trying to do that. Life got busy again. But other folks here say they’ve done it (read the entire thread and follow to the other threads they mention).