Editing new Amibios files

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KURIAKI
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I can't find a working utility to edit 1mb Amibios files:
http://kuriaki.myftp.org:8245/Archives/ ... M/0203.rom
More than 100,000 BIOS strings in my database just now!
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KURIAKI
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Hi.

Currently there is no public utility to open this 1MB (8Mb FWH)AMI BIOS file:
http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/soc ... TM0203.zip

( It is the same like: http://kuriaki.myftp.org:8245/Archives/ ... M/0203.rom )
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KURIAKI
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Borg Number One wrote:Hi.

Currently there is no public utility to open this 1MB (8Mb FWH)AMI BIOS file.
Maybe any private utility?
;-)
Looks like Veit Kannegieser has no time to update his Amideco utility.
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you need cut last two bytes of the 0203.rom and save it,
then you can use mmtool to open it.
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Sunbird.

Wow, respect. :)

This "bug" is really simple. :)
But nobody thinks about such a bug.
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KURIAKI
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sunbirds wrote:you need cut last two bytes of the 0203.rom and save it,
then you can use mmtool to open it.
For months I was trying this, deleting one to five bytes, whitout results.
The problem was the tools I was using with it.
Thanks a lot my friend !!

BIOS String: 64-0203-000010-00101111-110405-Mukilteo-A0224001
OEM Sign-On: ASUS P5MT-M ACPI BIOS Revision 0203
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Hi.

Tell, me what you would like to modify.
(Menu related modifications are not possible anymore, because there are no further munes to unhide.)
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Nothing, I only need BIOS string and OEM Sign-On.
Thanks.
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KURIAKI
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The Asus P5MT-M BIOS has following data:

BIOS Date : 11/04/05
BIOS Name :Mukilteo
BIOS Size :1024Kb
ID String 1 :64-0203-000010-00101111-110405-Mukilteo
BIOS Tag :A0224001
Processor :6
Reference Number :000010

Sign On Message
AMIBIOS(C)2005 American Megatrends, Inc.
BIOS Date: 11/04/05 13:08:36 Ver: 08.00.11
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Borg:
when does your bios tools collection 6 release ?
:)
JEWilson
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I have the same issue only with a 512kb rom image and
an 4Mb Intel FWH

There are two versions of the firmware I would like to check for
uCode patches. Both images are AMI BIOS as with;

v1.3
Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, 2003
BIOS Date: 10/28/99
BIOS Type: American Megatrends
BIOS ID: 63-10B1-001169-00101111-071595-WHITNEY-1WHITNEY
OEM Sign-On: A6178O1 V1.3MR 140100
Chipset: Intel Whitney 82810 rev 3
CPU Type: Pentium III
CPU Speed: 600 Mhz
CPU Max: 800 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes
BIOS ROM Size: 512K
Memory Installed: 128 MB
Memory Maximum: 1024 MB

v1.72
Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, 2003
BIOS Date: 05/08/00
BIOS Type: American Megatrends
BIOS ID: 63-10B1-001169-00101111-071595-WHITNEY-1WHITNEY
OEM Sign-On: A6178EO1 V1.72MR 08052000
Chipset: Intel Whitney 82810E rev 3
CPU Type: Pentium III
CPU Speed: 733 Mhz
CPU Max: 800 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes
BIOS ROM Size: 512K
Memory Installed: 128 MB
Memory Maximum: 1024 MB
It is an AMI BIOS as with

I have used MMTool v3.x and the images are not recognized.
I have used MMTool MMTool_2.22.1.exe and it will (apparently)
load the image bit no modules are listed.

Is this a similar problem?
I did try to cut the two bytes from the BIOS image but
then MMTool MMTool_2.22.1.exe states the image length is wrong.

Any help or suggestions appreciated
JEWilson
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Ok

Got these opend with AMIBCP (non-Windows version)
Q - Can anyone give me a walk-through of how to
extract and add Intel uCode updates with this tool?

Please!

Thanks
pgustafson
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The new version of AMI Bios Utilities included in BNTBTC (8.00.11 RC1 I think) will do all the things quite easily that have been mentioned in this forum. I have had the 1.00MB BIOS problem too, and when I was researching it, I found the utilities mentioned both too old and inadequate, so I found AMIBCP v8 for Windows (included in the AMI BIOS Utils 8). Give it a whirl, it should work. You can find it in the Wims Bios forum here
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