[GUIDE] Legacy AMIBIOS8 make all compiled Settings available

eierhals · May 24, 2021, 10:04pm

Hi everyone,

after month of Try and Error, and using the Internet Archive to build up a big library with AMD tech files and Guides from the New Rebel Heaven Forums I finally finished my guide which basically consists of 2 parts.
The first part is rewritten from the new rebels heaven forum the credits goes to that users.
The second part is a modified easier method to find all the settings which are saved to CMOS/NVRAM on a running machine do some calculation and replace the one you need or want to unlock with settings which are useless or you do not need.
All the work is based on a 2048kb AMIBIOS8 files. It should work with smaller 1024kb ROM files or larger 4096kb. The method is the same.
As I write in the guide for Case #2 I think there is a tool which can also extract the CMOS Tokens from an Offline Image but I couldn’t remember it’s name or how I make it work. I really hope someone can give a hint.

I know this guide are late and we all need it years ago but for retro use and fun it is useful.
I can’t give a download link to the needed tools maybe most of you already got them I dunno.

Find out the guide as attachment I also uploaded it to github: Obsole BIOS Guide PDF Document

Edit #1: Added 2 screenshots of the working system + a list of 41-Bytecodes which i calculated explicit for H8DGI-F

41070E - UnitID Clumping
410C16 - GFX Card Workaround
411816 - MCU FW for erratum77
411914 - AddOn ROM Display Mode
412416 - Hide Unused PCIE P2P Bridges
412418 - OnChip SATA Channel
412710 - SET - Core Configuration GPP1 P0/1
412714 - Bootup Num-Lock
413018 - SATA IDE Combined Mode
413510 - SET - Core Configuration GPP2 P0/1
413514 - Wait For ‘F1’ If Error
414310 - Peer-to-Peer among GPP1/GPP2
414314 - Hit ‘DEL’ Message Display
414511 - HT Extended Address
41480E - PCIe = Maximum Payload Size
41491A - Load onboard SAS Option Rom
414D18 - Flash Controller
415311 - HT Link Tristate
415618 - SureBoot Feature
41591A - PS2 KB/MS Wakeup
41600E - PCIe = Maximum Read Request Size
416311 - IOC Peer-to-Peer Mode
417811 - SATA PHY WORKAROUND
417c18 - AMI OEMB table
417F1A - Retry Boot Devices
418111 - C States Support
418712 - USB Mass Storage Reset Delay
418D18 - Headless Mode
419214 - GART Error Reporting
41AC12 - Display Mode
41B411 - Relaxed Ordering
41B419 - Watch Dog function
41C219 - Raid CodeBase
41C411 - Extended Tag Field
41c518 - PEF SUPPORT
41D411 - No Snoop
41DD0D - NB Deempasies Level
41E411 - Extended Synch
41EF18 - MPS Revision
41F50D - HT3 Link Power State
41731A - Power Button Function
419C12 - Restore on AC Power Loss
415407 - Default Boot Order
41651A - Resume On RTC Alarm
414907 - RTC Alarm Date (Days)
418110 - NB-SB Link ASPM
413216 - NP NB-SB VC1 Traffic Support
41DF1A - SPD Software Write-Protect
41F40F - Power Down Enable
410410 - Power Down Mode
41991A - SMCCMOS Tool Support
41A71A - Auto Load Default from Optimal
410C15 - CS Sparing Enable
418119 - OnBoard Marvell NIC
418D19 - Marvell NIC OPTROM
41B20A - OnBoard PCI IDE Controller
413E18 - PATA Channel Config
41C417 - OHCI HC(Bus 0 Dev 18 Fn 0)
41D017 - OHCI HC(Bus 0 Dev 18 Fn 1)
41DF17 - EHCI HC(Bus 0 Dev 18 Fn 2)
41EE17 - OHCI HC(Bus 0 Dev 19 Fn 0)
41FA17 - OHCI HC(Bus 0 Dev 19 Fn 1)
410918 - EHCI HC(Bus 0 Dev 19 Fn 2)
411818 - OHCI HC(Bus 0 Dev 20 Fn 5)
413415 - Powerdown Unused lanes
414015 - Powerdown Unused lanes
414C15 - Powerdown Unused lanes
415815 - Powerdown Unused lanes
416415 - Turn Off PLL During L1/L23
417015 - Turn Off PLL During L1/L23
417C15 - Turn Off PLL During L1/L23
418815 - Turn Off PLL During L1/L23
414019 - USB 2.0 Controller Mode
415119 - BIOS EHCI Hand-Off
416219 - Legacy USB1.1 HC Support
419C19 - Northbridge interrupt pin
41190E - OnChip SATA Type
41240B - IDE Detect Time Out (Sec)
417712 - Legacy USB Support
413B09 - Remap Port Device Number
415F09 - Remap Port Device Number
418309 - Remap Port Device Number
41A709 - Remap Port Device Number
41CB09 - Remap Port Device Number
41EF09 - Remap Port Device Number
41130A - Remap Port Device Number
41370A - Remap Port Device Number
415B0A - Remap Port Device Number
417F0A - Remap Port Device Number
419110 - Gen2 High Speed Mode
41A310 - Gen2 High Speed Mode
41B510 - Gen2 High Speed Mode
41C710 - Gen2 High Speed Mode
41D910 - Gen2 High Speed Mode
41EB10 - Gen2 High Speed Mode
41FD10 - Gen2 High Speed Mode
410F11 - Gen2 High Speed Mode
412111 - Gen2 High Speed Mode
413311 - Gen2 High Speed Mode
413617 - Compliance Mode
414217 - Compliance Mode
414E17 - Compliance Mode
415A17 - Compliance Mode
416617 - Compliance Mode
417217 - Compliance Mode
417E17 - Compliance Mode
418A17 - Compliance Mode
419617 - Compliance Mode
41A217 - Compliance Mode
41AE17 - Compliance Mode
41C30C - Link Width
41D90C - Link Width
41EF0C - Link Width
415110 - Link Width
416110 - Link Width
417110 - Link Width
41D013 - Clear NVRAM
41510C - Core Configuration
41C70F - Reserved Memory Size
41EC13 - PCI IDE BusMaster
41690C - TX Drive Strength
417B0C - TX Drive Strength
418D0C - TX Drive Strength
419F0C - TX Drive Strength
41B10C - TX Drive Strength
419415 - TXCLK Clock Gating in L1
41A015 - TXCLK Clock Gating in L1
41AC15 - TXCLK Clock Gating in L1
41B815 - TXCLK Clock Gating in L1
41C415 - TXCLK Clock Gating in L1
41D015 - LCLK Clock Gating in L1
41DC15 - LCLK Clock Gating in L1
41E815 - LCLK Clock Gating in L1
41F415 - LCLK Clock Gating in L1
410016 - LCLK Clock Gating in L1
414C16 - Lane Reversal
415816 - Lane Reversal
416416 - Lane Reversal
417016 - Lane Reversal
417C16 - Lane Reversal
418816 - Lane Reversal
419416 - Lane Reversal
41FD18 - Active State Power Management
41AB11 - BMC Watch Dog Timer Action
41110C - Memory Timing Parameters
41340C - Memory Clock Speed
41AA18 - SR-IOV Supported
41B618 - ARI Forwarding
410814 - Quiet Boot

I will help as much as I can and feel free to ask for question.
P.s.: If anyone has a better Thread headline I am open to it

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I do not accept any guarantee or responsibility in the event of incorrect application or use of these instructions. The risk is borne by each individual

Alex

Obsolete_BIOS_Guide.pdf (414 KB)

eierhals · January 2, 2022, 10:22am

Update I successfully modified the H8QG7 LNF4 OCNG5 Bios with AMI Core8 Legacy BIOS for a friend.
Change the the available Settings from “hide” to “show” ( easy part ) and getting the available Settings with the Dump of Register 70/71h with the Index Mask Combination searching for the 4 required options starting with 01 […] with the position of the OnChip Sata Channel and Type calculating there Position in the 1B file and change them with Core Configuration to setup correct Core Configs for the Clumping.
This is the second board wehere the AMD counterpart of Intels Bifurcation is working with a stupid simple NVME Pcie Slot Card again the cheap Asus 4x4 M2 card works like charm ( not limited to Asus boards as they mentioned )

Screenshot 2022-01-02 101227.jpg

pipes80 · October 8, 2022, 9:23pm

I ha ve tried this guide for an amibios p5b deluxe, but i can’t take nothing from amicew command because do not nothing

eierhals · October 10, 2022, 12:35am

well, you need AMISCE - dunno which program you use - latest AMICORE8 version is 2.20.
Whats the output from you cmd? unable to load driver? I need more Information thx

pipes80 · October 12, 2022, 7:59pm

i had used that version and other more old version

eierhals · October 16, 2022, 10:39am

sorry for late reply but I was in austria the whole week. I need your conole output as mentioned in my last post.

eierhals · October 30, 2022, 8:23pm

Hi,
it’s been a while ago since your last posting. Please send screenshots from your terminal output.
I’m lucky to can say that I successful worked this out on different boards.

Only to say say “it wont work” is not an option on this board so please post more input where we can start to investigate.
Thanks

pipes80 · November 9, 2022, 10:14pm

this is what i get after typing the command on the machine to which i want to modify the bios, the board is p5b deluxe

eierhals · November 23, 2022, 11:58pm

Sorry for late reply.
You are using the wrong tool!
In the manual it says: “amiscew.exe” - that in version 2.20 or older works for AMICORE8 BIOS.
The tool you are using is the wrong one.
Please search in your program collection for the correct exe file. It is stored in another folder

pipes80 · November 26, 2022, 9:50pm

it give same error when try other version more compatible with my bios

Supremeas · December 17, 2022, 1:15pm

Hello;

May this Help for you…,

A Huge AMI Tool Collection;

Have a good one.

rofikkernel · December 18, 2022, 5:02am

it support ami v5 ?

Supremeas · December 18, 2022, 12:40pm

could be this;

rofikkernel · December 19, 2022, 4:53am

thanks you brother

Supremeas · December 19, 2022, 10:52am

Youre always welcome

Einimas · October 25, 2023, 6:38pm

Read through the guide will have to try it out, learned the structure of the rom recently, was looking for a way to add new menus. Tryed swapping “1B” Without much luck, but would’nt it be possible to "recompile the whole menu part from another bios knowing the offsets?

Einimas · October 25, 2023, 7:44pm

bcp sees both bioses after 1b AAANNNDDD 21 (multilang) swap, but the addreses are off…

Einimas · October 25, 2023, 8:12pm

I’ll check the tutorial with the fresh head to figure if its enough to change the handle to offset the menu, there are other donor roms with way better oc capabilities I’m after.