Use the E3 V5 series CPU method on the H110 B150 Z170 motherboard

BIOS/UEFI Modding BIOS Modding Guides and Problems
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On FIT only BIN And XML can be Load , how to load asrock bios .00 file format to FIT Thanks Advance

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Hi guys,

sorry for my english.

Sorry for refloating this topic.

The thing is, I have a Gigabyte B250-Fintech motherboard and there are 2 CPU support lists.

One is this:

https://www.gigabyte.com/en/Motherboard/GA-B250-FinTech-rev-10/support#support-cpu

and the other is this:

https://www.aorus.com/es-uy/motherboards/GA-B250-FinTech-rev-10/Support

This is the same motherboard but there are different supported CPU lists.

The thing is, I have a Xeon E3 1230 V5 which is listed on the second list (Aorus site) but not on the Gigabyte one.

If I put the CPU on the board, it turns on and after a second it turns off.

I updated the BIOS to the latest version available (F4a) but it does not work with the Xeon (Checked on a server board and it works fine)

Is there a modified Bios that I can use to get the Xeon on the board to work?

Thank you very much for your time

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Try this:
B250FTMod.zip (4.6 MB)

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Thanks, but it didn’t work, in Q-Flash it says invalid bios image :sob:
Thanks for your time and quick answer dude!

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you could try to flash it using modded efiflash or intel fpt

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thanks, anyway I’m afraid of breaking the motherboard and I never used what you tell me,

Regards!

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hi Is there a modded BIOS I can use to get the Xeon e3 v5 1220 to work on the board?

Thank you very much for your time, is it a z170 hp3 ddr3 or take care of what I need

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@Militar5030 Hi and welcome to Win-Raid forums.

It should be possible to run a Skylake Xeon on the Gigabyte Z170 HD3 DDR3 but you must use BIOS F20 or later.

As the Skylake Xeon microcode is already in the BIOS (CPUID 506E3) you don’t need to add it.

  1. Download and extract CoffeeTime v0.99 and drag and drop the BIOS file onto it (or open CoffeeTime and select the BIOS manually and click continue).

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  1. Click on the two dots in the ME section and select ‘11.8.77.3664 Corp Cut’ from the drop down list at the bottom then click on ‘Replace’

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  1. In the ME section click on the arrows to change ME to ‘Disabled’

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  1. In the Fixes section for ‘ME Recovery’ click on ‘Remove’ so it turns green (this is usually required on Asus boards but I would do it just to be safe)

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  1. Click on ‘Save image’ at the bottom and give the file a new name (note that it will have the extension .bin)

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  1. If you want to use Q-flash to flash the BIOS you must edit one byte using a hex editor so that it will accept the modified file.

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Otherwise use a modified version of Efiflash from a bootable USB drive.

WARNING & DISCLAIMER: There is a risk when you flash any BIOS that the system may become bricked and this risk only increases when you modify the BIOS. I am not responsible should you brick the board - you must decide if the risk is worth it. I highly recommend obtaining a hardware programmer to recover from a bad flash.

WARNING #2: Please note that this motherboard has ‘DualBIOS’. If the board fails to boot after flashing a modified BIOS it may attempt to boot from the backup BIOS automatically without any warning message! If you then flash a bad BIOS over the backup chip you will brick the board!

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hi , I tried this method to my lenovo m900 and it success to accept e3 1245 v5 on chipset Q170 , thanks for all
this is motherboard IQ1X0MS V1.0
modified with coffe time 099 and CSME tools v11 , and finaly flashed with CH341A Programmer , because my motherboard deos’nt accept fptw

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Thanks, worked on a Gigabyte ga-z170x-ud3 with a E3-1270 v6.

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