How to get MSI A88XM-E45 rev 1 motherboard to accept a A10-7890 (Godavari) APU?

BIOS/UEFI Modding BIOS Modding Guides and Problems
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I need help in making a motherboard work with an APU that it does not support.

Motherboard is MSI A88XM-E45 rev 1:

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/A88XM-E45.html

It supports up to A10-7850K (Kaveri). I am trying to make it work with a A10-7890K (Godavari). This motherboard has a rev 2 that supports the A10-7890K:

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/A88XM-E45-V2.html

The motherboards look the same to me so encouraged by https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=257882.0 (check the last post), I tried flashing the BIOS from the rev 2 motherboard. I was hoping that it would work fine, but it didn’t, giving an entirely different set of symptoms.

Here are my notes about what is happening with each BIOS revision:

v1 BIOS

P00, P10, P20, P30: Slow GPU
P40: Boots into windows but has issues with GPU
P50, P60: Error 99 during POST

v2 BIOS

500: CPU2 Stalled
510: Hang
520: CPU2 Stalled
530: Hang
540: CPU2 Stalled

Let me note that I first tried this a few years ago when I got hold of the APU and the motherboard. These notes are from that timeframe and I am not sure where I saw the “CPU2 Stalled” message.

The CPU support list for rev 1 motherboard is available at https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/…tml#support-cpu For rev 2, it is at https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/…tml#support-cpu

Here is what each BIOS revision contains (the output is from the tool “UBU” as far as I can remember):

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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
Brand MSI
Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 6950AFFF-6EE3-11DD-AD8B-0800200C9A66
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDx64 GUID C468B382-4550-4909-AD57-2496141B3F4A
Found EFI AMD RAID Utility GUID 0916E322-3740-31CE-AD62-BD172CECCA36
Found EFI AMD SCSI Bus GUID 0167CCC4-D0F7-4F21-A3EF-9E64B7CDCE8B
Found EFI AMD SCSI Disk GUID 0A66E322-3740-4CCE-AD62-BD172CECCA35
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 4953F720-006D-41F5-990D-0AA8853BCC71
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     EFI AMD RAID               - 1.0.0.49
     EFI AMD Utility            - 1.0.0.49
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.1-00075
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.1-00076
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.1-00075
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.1-00076
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.040.000.001.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.031.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.52.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.53
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.021
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA KaveriPI        V0.0.8.2
 
 



P10:

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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
Brand MSI
Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 6950AFFF-6EE3-11DD-AD8B-0800200C9A66
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDx64 GUID C468B382-4550-4909-AD57-2496141B3F4A
Found EFI AMD RAID Utility GUID 0916E322-3740-31CE-AD62-BD172CECCA36
Found EFI AMD SCSI Bus GUID 0167CCC4-D0F7-4F21-A3EF-9E64B7CDCE8B
Found EFI AMD SCSI Disk GUID 0A66E322-3740-4CCE-AD62-BD172CECCA35
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 4953F720-006D-41F5-990D-0AA8853BCC71
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     EFI AMD RAID               - 1.0.0.49
     EFI AMD Utility            - 1.0.0.49
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.1-00075
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.1-00076
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.1-00075
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.1-00076
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.040.000.001.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.031.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.53.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.53
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.021
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA KaveriPI        V1.0.0.0
 


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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
Brand MSI
Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 6950AFFF-6EE3-11DD-AD8B-0800200C9A66
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDx64 GUID C468B382-4550-4909-AD57-2496141B3F4A
Found EFI AMD RAID Utility GUID 0916E322-3740-31CE-AD62-BD172CECCA36
Found EFI AMD SCSI Bus GUID 0167CCC4-D0F7-4F21-A3EF-9E64B7CDCE8B
Found EFI AMD SCSI Disk GUID 0A66E322-3740-4CCE-AD62-BD172CECCA35
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 4953F720-006D-41F5-990D-0AA8853BCC71
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     EFI AMD RAID               - 1.0.0.49
     EFI AMD Utility            - 1.0.0.49
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.1-00075
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.1-00076
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.1-00075
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.1-00076
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.041.000.001.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.031.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.54.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.58
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.026
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA KaveriPI        V1.1.0.0
 



P30:

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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
Brand MSI
Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 6950AFFF-6EE3-11DD-AD8B-0800200C9A66
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDx64 GUID C468B382-4550-4909-AD57-2496141B3F4A
Found EFI AMD RAID Utility GUID 0916E322-3740-31CE-AD62-BD172CECCA36
Found EFI AMD SCSI Bus GUID 0167CCC4-D0F7-4F21-A3EF-9E64B7CDCE8B
Found EFI AMD SCSI Disk GUID 0A66E322-3740-4CCE-AD62-BD172CECCA35
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 4953F720-006D-41F5-990D-0AA8853BCC71
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     EFI AMD RAID               - 1.0.0.49
     EFI AMD Utility            - 1.0.0.49
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.1-00076
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.1-00076
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.041.000.002.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.031.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.54.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.58
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.026
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA KaveriPI        V1.1.0.2
 
 



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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
Brand MSI
Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 6950AFFF-6EE3-11DD-AD8B-0800200C9A66
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDx64 GUID C468B382-4550-4909-AD57-2496141B3F4A
Found EFI AMD RAID Utility GUID 0916E322-3740-31CE-AD62-BD172CECCA36
Found EFI AMD SCSI Bus GUID 0167CCC4-D0F7-4F21-A3EF-9E64B7CDCE8B
Found EFI AMD SCSI Disk GUID 0A66E322-3740-4CCE-AD62-BD172CECCA35
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 4953F720-006D-41F5-990D-0AA8853BCC71
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     EFI AMD RAID               - 1.0.0.49
     EFI AMD Utility            - 1.0.0.49
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.3-00035
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.3-00035
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.041.000.002.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.031.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.54.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.58
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.026
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA KaveriPI        V1.1.0.7
 
 



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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
Brand MSI
Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 6950AFFF-6EE3-11DD-AD8B-0800200C9A66
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDx64 GUID C468B382-4550-4909-AD57-2496141B3F4A
Found EFI AMD RAID Utility GUID 0916E322-3740-31CE-AD62-BD172CECCA36
Found EFI AMD SCSI Bus GUID 0167CCC4-D0F7-4F21-A3EF-9E64B7CDCE8B
Found EFI AMD SCSI Disk GUID 0A66E322-3740-4CCE-AD62-BD172CECCA35
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 4953F720-006D-41F5-990D-0AA8853BCC71
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     EFI AMD RAID               - 1.0.0.49
     EFI AMD Utility            - 1.0.0.49
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.3-00035
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.3-00035
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.041.000.002.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.031.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.54.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.58
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.026
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA KaveriPI        V1.1.0.7
 
 



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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
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Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 6950AFFF-6EE3-11DD-AD8B-0800200C9A66
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDx64 GUID C468B382-4550-4909-AD57-2496141B3F4A
Found EFI AMD RAID Utility GUID 0916E322-3740-31CE-AD62-BD172CECCA36
Found EFI AMD SCSI Bus GUID 0167CCC4-D0F7-4F21-A3EF-9E64B7CDCE8B
Found EFI AMD SCSI Disk GUID 0A66E322-3740-4CCE-AD62-BD172CECCA35
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 4953F720-006D-41F5-990D-0AA8853BCC71
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     EFI AMD RAID               - 1.0.0.49
     EFI AMD Utility            - 1.0.0.49
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.3-00035
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.3-00035
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.041.000.002.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.031.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.54.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.58
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.026
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA KaveriPI        V1.1.0.7
 
 



The rest is from the rev 2 motherboard BIOS files:

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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
Brand MSI
Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 6950AFFF-6EE3-11DD-AD8B-0800200C9A66
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDx64 GUID C468B382-4550-4909-AD57-2496141B3F4A
Found EFI AMD RAID Utility GUID 0916E322-3740-31CE-AD62-BD172CECCA36
Found EFI AMD SCSI Bus GUID 0167CCC4-D0F7-4F21-A3EF-9E64B7CDCE8B
Found EFI AMD SCSI Disk GUID 0A66E322-3740-4CCE-AD62-BD172CECCA35
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 4953F720-006D-41F5-990D-0AA8853BCC71
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     EFI AMD RAID               - 1.0.0.49
     EFI AMD Utility            - 1.0.0.49
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.3-00035
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.3-00035
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.041.000.002.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.031.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.57.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.58
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.026
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA GodavariPI      V0.0.9.0
 
 



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Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
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Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 6950AFFF-6EE3-11DD-AD8B-0800200C9A66
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDx64 GUID C468B382-4550-4909-AD57-2496141B3F4A
Found EFI AMD RAID Utility GUID 0916E322-3740-31CE-AD62-BD172CECCA36
Found EFI AMD SCSI Bus GUID 0167CCC4-D0F7-4F21-A3EF-9E64B7CDCE8B
Found EFI AMD SCSI Disk GUID 0A66E322-3740-4CCE-AD62-BD172CECCA35
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 4953F720-006D-41F5-990D-0AA8853BCC71
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     EFI AMD RAID               - 1.0.0.49
     EFI AMD Utility            - 1.0.0.49
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.3-00035
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.3-00035
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.041.000.002.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.031.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.58.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.58
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.026
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA GodavariPI      V1.0.0.0
 
 



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Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
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Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 57E9EEE9-EB7D-4453-BBF7-6C181FD09027
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 50994E78-18D5-4121-9144-16C370A16192
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.3-00035
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.3-00035
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.041.000.002.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.035.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.59.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.58
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.026
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA CarrizoFM2r2PI  V1.2.0.2X
 
 



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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
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Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 57E9EEE9-EB7D-4453-BBF7-6C181FD09027
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 50994E78-18D5-4121-9144-16C370A16192
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.3-00035
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.3-00035
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.041.000.002.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.035.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.59.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.58
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.026
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA CarrizoFM2r2PI  V1.2.0.3X
 
 



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Scanning BIOS... Please wait...
Platform BIOS AMI Aptio 4
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Found Option ROM in GUID A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8
Extract OROM
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 57E9EEE9-EB7D-4453-BBF7-6C181FD09027
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID DE3E049C-A218-4891-8658-5FC0FA84C788
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID EBA8213F-C37E-4412-A0B8-CBA3988F8655
Found EFI AMD AGESA GUID 30AF4110-A58E-4EF7-8C75-B72593B93B9F
Found EFI AMD GOP Driver GUID 48DCABDF-CE6D-465C-B832-FD1BD169F3EA
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 84FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found OROM-in-EFI AMD VBIOS GUID 74FFE0DE-DCEC-49BF-910D-1B476A851EAF
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 50965C18-2F65-41A9-9961-BA889EA978D9
Found EFI AMD RAIDXpert2 GUID 5CF6CEDE-0DED-4013-9196-F429DE361937
Found EFI Realtek LAN Undi GUID 50994E78-18D5-4121-9144-16C370A16192
 
        Select option for update
 
1 - AMD OROM and EFI Nodules
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7802    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAID MISC 7803    - 3.3.1540.19
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F10    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F10     - 6.1.3-00035
     OROM AMD RAIDXpert2-F50    - 6.1.3-00035
     EFI AMD RAIDXpert2-F50     - 6.1.3-00035
2 - AMD OROM VBIOS and EFI GOP Driver
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Spectre  - 015.041.000.002.000000
     OROM-in-FFS VBIOS Trinity  - 015.035.000.000.000000
     EFI AMD GOP Driver         - 1.59.0.0.0
3 - LAN OROM PXE and EFI UNDI - Intel, RTK, BCM, QCA
     OROM Realtek Boot Agent GE - 2.58
     EFI Realtek UNDI           - 2.026
  AMD AGESA CPU Support
     AMD AGESA CarrizoFM2r2PI  V1.2.0.4X
 
 



The best version so far is P40 in that it seems to work and boot into Windows but I get random hangs and crashes once I install the AMD GPU drivers and run 3dMark, for example. This is under Windows 7, I have not tested another OS. With P40 BIOS, the system seems to work fine as CPU (without the GPU drivers, running as a "Basic Display Adapter" under Windows).

Is there anything I can do to identify the various issues I am having with each revision? Maybe other tools? Would any modding help in this case? I would appreciate any help at this point in getting this to work.

One last note: The motherboard has a SPI header so I can test different BIOS revisions if necessary. SPI header is how I restored the system back to P40 after each unsuccessful attempt previously.