The brazilian computer brand Daten gave me a lot of headache while trying to use it’s b150 motherboard with a Xeon E3-1240 V5, i spent many hours modding the bios for it to work, so im here to do it so you don’t have to!
First of all, im leaving here the link to the original and modded bios and tools used here folder
Requisites:
- (MANDATORY) CH341A flash programmer, for the bios is read/write locked.
- CoffeeTime v0.99b
- Clean Intel ME v11.6.0.1126 (or the version that apears on CoffeeTime) .bin image
- Intel Flash Image Tool(FIT) v11.6
- UEFITool
- HxD binary editor
- (Optional) Flash Programming Tool Windows (FPTW)
- (Optional, recommended) MEAnalyzer
Process:
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To start, you’re going to dump de original BIOS with the CH341A programmer, save it to backup.bin.
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Open the backup on CoffeeTime, disable the ME and unlock the bios FD Lock
In this step you usually just update the intel ME directly from CoffeeTime, but it fails with this BIOS the process looks like it worked, but the ME version continues the same, so we need to change directly in the binary. -
Open the modified file on UEFITool and locate the ME region address and size
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In this case(and probably on others) the address and offset are 1000h(HEX), and the size is 6FF000h = 7.335.936 bytes, value that you can confirm on file properties, if you extract this region.
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Open the BIOS on your preference HEX editor, im using HxD, press CTRL+G , or go to Locate>go to…, and input the address (1000h).
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Press CTRL+E, or go to edit>select block, select size and input ME size (6FF000h), then delete.
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Open the clean ME on the editor, select all(CTRL+A), copy and paste on the bios in the exact same line (start of 1000h) and save (remember to save with .bin extension)
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Open on CoffeeTime, now its possible to replace the ME version, replace with the latest and save.
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Open on Intel FIT, confirm your board PCH, check in Intel(R) ME Kernel settings end of page if the Reserved parameter is marked as YES( If no changes were needed you can skip this step), then build image (CTRL+B or Build>build image).
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Optional, run the latest build (if you built with intel FIT itll be saved as outimage.bin) on MEAnalyzer to check.
7.Flash image, install your Xeon E3 V5 and do a full power cycle.
after all these steps your Daten Motherboard should be booting normally with your Xeon E3V5, maybe not all the steps are necessary, i worked on this modding for 20hours, and combined many procedures until i finally got results, so maybe i have one or two steps that can be skipped, or did with less work!
