Hello, I have an MSI laptop running i5-8300H along side with 1050ti recently I discovered running in Power Limit issues on my laptop when gpu is running besides CPU and found out that MSI has set power limit TDP for lower than 45W which is the normal 8300H running TDP
I wanted to mod my firmware and increase the TDP limit just to 45W
MSI has made a BIOS image and EC firmware image i dont know how to mod EC firmware image or the tools to open it so please help me
This is the link for my EC firmware image
@Lost_N_BIOS can you please help me? like mod it for me or help me with the tools because i can’t open the EC firmware in first place
Lost_N_BIOS hasn’t been online since January 2021.
Originally by plutomaniac:
“EC is extremely system-specific. Don’t mess with it unless you are looking for a nice brick. It’s not like BIOS modules, there is no “oh it kind of works” but “oh, I bricked my system because I changed 1 byte”. The only reason you might want to “update” it is by extracting it from a newer SPI image of the exact same laptop. And you have no reason to do that really since you can flash that latest “BIOS” yourself which will update the EC/KBC firmware alongside depending on the model/oem of course.”
Hello, thanks for the update about lost n bios,
I am not looking for any updates since my latest laptop bios was in 2019 with latest EC im just trying to raise my tdp limit to the normal cpu tdp since msi has really limited the tdp on my cpu
My bios is already cut down into bios and ec firmware so i was looking for a non risky way just to update the tdp in my EC firmware