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Hi, sorry for my bad english Smile
I need to integrate bios of pci controller VT6421A into bios of my motherboard ASROCK Conroe1333-DVI/H.

When i try with MMTOOL V3.12 i receive an error "Error !! ROM space isn't enought. It exceeded 4D84h Bytes."

I attach VT6421 bios (for motherboard you can see on asrock website because i cannot post url :( )

Can you help me please??? ...

I have an intel willow springs 2 mobo.Its from a gateway desktop computer so it has gateways bios logo.I have been trying to remove/replace the logo for almost a year now.I have dumped the bios chip but cant seem to get any AMI tool to edit it.The only tool that seems to recognize it is amideco.I was able to extract the contents with amideco aswell.Here is a screen shot i took.
Also here is the ...

Is it possible to add sata staggered spinup support to a BIOS by decompiling and switching some options, or do you have to write additional code?

I have found a hardware solution for what I want, but space is tight and I prefer a software solution.

Hello everybody!

I am having problems in executing one specific Option ROM on a UEFI based Asrock z68 Pro3 motherboard.
When installed one IT8212F based RAID controller prevents the whole system from booting. The same RAID controller works fine on every other (non-UEFI) motherboard that I tried. The problem shouldn't be hardware related, because other Option ROMs (for example ATASX or a PXE ) flashed to the same controller work fine. This makes me to ...

Gurus,

This is my first post in this forum, so please excuse if I unintentionally break any forum rules.

I am a windows Kernel programmer, and I need to find out from Windows, whether my underlying BIOS id EFI or legacy. I have used RW-everything to look at hte various structures, but till now I haven't been able to identify the specific EFI tag. The proposed solution should work with most (if not all) BIOS ...

Hi,

I just got an D2703-A1 mainboard (mini ITX), which is a striped down version of the D2703-S1 board. I need the bios of the -S1 board on mine to use SATA and stuff, but can't get it flashed.

Here is the content of the biod update directory (-S1 board):
01.12.2010 15:04 4.478 A2703_S1.OMF
01.12.2010 15:14 14.416 AMDCPUP.ALL
01.12.2010 15:14 1.491 AMDCPUP.TXT
01.12.2010 15:14 199 AUTOEXEC.BAT
23.06.2009 21:04 117.378 BIOFLASH.EXE
01.12.2010 15:04 1.383 C2703_S1.OMF
10.12.2003 ...

Hi.

Thanks to information given to me by Jan Hill, and some boredom, I wrote a patcher that patches the AWARD BIOS 32GB bug, meaning after running the patcher, it will not hang anymore after the memory test.

I'd love if some people could test it. When I have gained some more knowledge about the 64GB fix, I'll try to implement it in the patcher. IMO the fact that AWD64GB isn't public yet is an ...

Hi everybody
I have a hp pavillon dv 6162ea with Phoenix Bios /ACPI2.0 version F.29. I have saerched for for an update but i didn't find anything.
yeterday I tried to mod the F.29 version using the Phoenix Mod Tool 1.42 but I get an error.this is the log file:

Original BIOS size 1102246 bytes
EF3DF Module BCPDMI Size 40
EF3F5 Module BCPQBT Size 22
EF406 Module BCPCAC Size 17
EF411 Module BCPSCN Size 11 ...

Hi ,

i have a question:

i'm trying to mod the BIOS of an AsRock board.

The model is K7S41GX , bios version 2.80 , link to bios :

http://europe.asrock.com/downloadsite/b ... S41GX(2.80).zip

I'm able to succesfully replace/add modules using AMIBCP75. After modifying i checked the result file with an hex editor and all seems to be OK , modules checksums are OK.
There's only one thing i'm not sure ...

Is it possible to add a small 9MB Operating System (OS) to some chip on the motherboard.
We cannot use an internal/external hard drive, USB flash, CD Rom or other removable device for our final solution.
Our need is to boot from the 9MB Unix OS file located on the motherboard.
After the BIOS is done performing system level checks, it should then boot the Unix OS from the motherboard location.
The Unix OS will ...