Thank you very much for this phantastic work and for having uploaded this package! Your automated "Award BIOS Updater" seems to be the easiest and safest way to solve the problems while updating an Option ROM module, which is located above a "sensitive" Award BIOS module.
Additionally I am very grateful, that you created another batch file package for our Forum member boombastik and his GA-EX58-UD5 mainboard. This will help boombastik and me to make some tests trying to update the Intel AHCI ROM module of Award BIOSes to v2.00h.
Since boombastic sent me yesterday your package for the GA-EX58_UD5 BIOS, I was able to do some tests using the original BIOSes of the Gigabyte mainboards GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (the one you used above) and GA-EX58-UD5 (boombastik’s mainboard).
This is what I did:
- Creation of a folder named "test" within the root of my Drive D:
- Insertion of the extracted content of your package into the folder D:\test
- Execution of the Command Prompt as Admin and navigation to D:\test
- Execution of the command "extract_all.bat"
Result with both BIOSes: All extractable BIOS modules have been successfully extracted from the original BIOS. - Navigation to D:\test and execution of the command "release_all.bat"
Result with both BIOSes: All removable BIOS modules have been successfully removed. - Navigation to D:\test and execution of the command "rebuild_bios.bat" (Note: The "i" within the word "rebuild" is missing within your package)
Result with the BIOS GA-MA790FXT-UD5P: The BIOS has been successfully rebuilt without any error message.
Result with the BIOS GA-EX58-UD5: The re-insertion of the previously removed Option ROM modules failed with the message "Couldn’t open the file xyz.bin". All other modules have been successfully re-inserted.
Questions:
1. Do you have any idea why the re-insertion of the Option ROM modules failed while using the GA-EX58-UD5 package?
2. Which bug of the CBROM32_198 tool has been fixed and who modified the exe file?
Thanks in advance!
Dieter (alias Fernando)