[Solved] How to mod an ASUS Rampage V Extreme BIOS?

I am using legacy.


Give this a try, I followed the original guide and added all 3 modules again so this should work for you. https://mega.nz/#!LhMFAB6Q!k3I0tk6l3Ma3r…APN0C4m_BlzPLbs

This still contains all the other updates as I used the latest offering on here.

3 modules ?
MD5/SHA1H
Can we get any detailed infos ?
THX~

sha1 835D77C9D69840B6EB6AAB2A4F6BD251674DB09B
md5 C986DEC26930715D523731B7D7A60957

The RST ORoms are in the BIOS twice to account for both methods of enabling it, via storage controllers giving you the Raid (Ctrl I) option after the main BIOS of the 2nd way via the ez-tuning menu in the BIOS, it does the same thing but doesn’t show the Raid screen after the BIOS.

The EFI modules the 3rd one.

It is explained in post 11 [Solved] How to mod an ASUS Rampage V Extreme BIOS?

I followed sinders guide again and now have a new sha1 showing changes have been made so it should prevent the not installed warning :slight_smile:

This is now confirmed to fix the module missing issue so please use this BIOS.

How did u update the intel MEI and usb3 firmwares? Can’t seem to do it on my rig. Can u describe how u took care off that?

How did u update the intel MEI and usb3 firmwares? Can’t seem to do it on my rig. Can u describe how u took care off that?


I wouldn’t try to upgrade the Intel MEI firmware on this board as I have read it can cause issues. I have read on the
ASUS ROG forum of users having issues after doing it. ASUS themselves do not recommend it with this board ether.

I wouldn’t mind knowing thought how to upgrade the Intel and Asmedia USB 3.0 Controller and Asmedia SATA
Controller firmwares on this board.

Source?

Source?


There are topics on the ASUS ROG Forum about this that if you use any other firmware than the one included by default on this board it
will brick the IME and cause all sorts of boot issues with the board that are irreversible even with a BIOS update or downgrade.

If you make a post in the ASUS ROG Forum about it I guarantee you will get the same response that it is not recommended.

I cannot find such a statement from an ASUS representative. Regardless, I always had reboot & RAID array issues since the beginning, which were eventually attributed to how the motherboard handles USB 3.0 and 4G - and I resolved. Updating the IME firmware made no difference whatsoever.

I also do not understand how can they be "irreversible" considering we can downgrade IME.

Maybe unable to debrick?

Could we get your BIOS up as optional against mine to allow people to troubleshoot with it?

Maybe unable to debrick?
Could we get your BIOS up as optional against mine to allow people to troubleshoot with it?


It is highly unlikely that the motherboard is bricked irreversibly just from updating IME, unless maybe you force upgrade the wrong firmware? I have updated IME on 7 different platforms, 2 of them are very old, and never encountered any issues.

I do not understand what BIOS you want - I am using SoniX’s version with IME firmware v9.1.37.1002, more information here: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools

I have not updated ASMEDIA’s USB 3.0 firmware because I cannot find a definitive latest firmware, plus ASMEDIA firmwares are not global firmwares (like IME’s) and could be specific to motherboards from ASUS. More information here: Asmedia 104x USB 3.0 firmware

Regardless, it is highly unlikely, unless you have an older motherboard, that you will see any benefit from upgrading IME / ASMEDIA firmwares and I have yet to discover any benchmarks / real world results verifying the benefits of doing so - unlike RAID benchmarks which prove an updated ROM can make a difference and unlike an updated CPU Microcode, which for me so far meant 0.05v less for a stable O.C.

This forum is rich and full of valuable information if you search around, you have detailed guides and automatic software like UBU that do the hard work for you; 5 or more years ago, 90% of what you can find in this forum was scarce information that was known to very few, and finding updated BIOS for your MoBo / acquiring information to do it yourself was an even more rare delicacy, especially if your MoBo was not a highly used, highly popular one.

OK, it was the Sonix one I added the extra raid oroms so we are on the suggested one. Personally I would rather have all the updates on these modded BIOS as that is the whole point.

Problem with the R5E is it’s ability to brick the board during a BIOS update that either doesn’t recover with swapping BIOS 1 to 2 or comes back to life after a lot of messing about, some have had to install 2 new BIOS chips. Asus will not answer any questions on this.



There is nothing that you need to add to SoniX’s BIOS, it has the latest and correct ROMs. If you are having any problems with R5E, always try to reset CMOS from the button, update your BIOS via flashback and / or completely cut the power supply to the box and wait at least 20 seconds. The latter helped me with multiple boot / flash / O.C. / USB 3.0 issues.



1st this [Solved] How to mod an ASUS Rampage V Extreme BIOS? (6)
Then this to fix it [Solved] How to mod an ASUS Rampage V Extreme BIOS? (6)
confirmation it had a module missing and me adding it fixed it https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.ph…ll=1#post559222

When you say you added 3 modules you mean the 2x RAID ROMs and 1x RAID EFI?

The BIOS is working perfectly for me and I just switched to legacy and still booted normally, which modules did you change specifically?

I redid the 3 listed by sinders [Solved] How to mod an ASUS Rampage V Extreme BIOS?

Didn’t have much time to pick things apart to check for changes, just noted the hash check value had changed after.

Did you try via ez tune as well as selecting raid the normal way in storage controller, this seems to be why it had the same module twice.

As I have said many a time, I know very little about this :slight_smile:

This is weird, I would like to check it, can you fix the link on your post above? It redirects me to a shop for some reason.

you may have a spyware issue as it works fine, anyway it is post 11 on the 1st page of this thread :slight_smile:

Your post on the ASUS forums.