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by maman
Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:01 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: Asus A8N-E bios modification!?
Replies: 4
Views: 9668

... why are there no RAM divider like DDR366, DDR300...? DFI offers this options on their Lanparty boards. this kind of settings depends on the chipset and the clock generator chip. Both of these boards has the same chipset right? so, it must be coz the clock generator chip differ. If both are the ...
by maman
Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:09 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: Please help me compare TWO Bioses...
Replies: 16
Views: 12825

apple_rom Thanks for the info. Sadly, I don't quite understand the hex code, but I am guessing you do. Is there some webpage or program out there that can help me make sense of what the hex code means? For starter, try these two articles: Pinczakko's Guide to Award BIOS Reverse Engineering Pinczakk...
by maman
Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:53 pm
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: Article -- Pinczakko's Guide to Award BIOS Patching
Replies: 0
Views: 3724

Article -- Pinczakko's Guide to Award BIOS Patching

Maybe some of you interested to read it :wink: . link: Pinczakko's Guide to Award BIOS Patching -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Modbin Internals 3. System-BIOS Patching Ninjutsu 3.1. The Secret Of The Sharingan 3.1...
by maman
Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:11 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: Relating strings to code?
Replies: 3
Views: 3791

So, there is no known relationship betwenn STRINGS and CODE that you guys know of?...looks like simething to play with then ;) hmm.., maybe something like printf(..) within the BIOS. I see. It would be an int 10h or mov string to frame buffer at 0xB0000 (sometimes 0xB8000) related routine. The prob...
by maman
Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:35 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: Relating strings to code?
Replies: 3
Views: 3791

OK. I'm not so sure about the particular solution for your question. But, I have a hint for you to deal with HDD/IDE related routines. Look for routines that accesses the IDE controller, i.e. read/write to port address 1F7h or 177h such as this: mov ax, 0x1F7 out dx, ax or mov ax, 0x177 out dx, ax A...
by maman
Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:06 am
Forum: BIOS Utilities & Flash Programs
Topic: Uniflash question
Replies: 6
Views: 7924

Re: Uniflash question

Rainbow: How is it possible to use Uniflash with Intel motherboards whose BIOS file contains small BIOS file fragments instad of the usual single BIOS file? After reading the latest Uniflash source code, I came to conclusion that the current uniflash only deals with plain-binary BIOS files, not the...
by maman
Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:52 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: LPC /FWH programming from Windows
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

8O There must be something that I overlooked here. Is it the kernel mode driver interface between both flasher that has issue :? . Anyway, thx for pointing out Borg :wink:
by maman
Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:38 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: LPC /FWH programming from Windows
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

Hi. Try to run any Award WinFlash version with any AMI BIOS boards in Windows (2k/XP...) Try to run any AMI WinFlash version with any Award BIOS boards in Windows (2k/XP...) In both cases you will see nice crashes/error messages by Windows. hmm, I think it's because this vendor specific flasher che...
by maman
Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:43 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: LPC /FWH programming from Windows
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

Hi. ... Asus Update supports AMI and Award / "Phoenix - Award" BIOS mainboards. The current Abit Flash Menu version also works on/with "non-Abit" mainboards, also with AMI and Award BIOS. There's no major difference between AMI and Award/Phoenix or other kind of BIOS from the flasher-program's poin...
by maman
Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:11 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: LPC /FWH programming from Windows
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

Re: LPC /FWH programming from Windows

Can anybody let me know if its possible to flash bios from Windows Environemnt. it's possible, several utilities, such as the winflash from Award Inc. does such a thing. I have an ICH5 based mobo (DFI865PE Infinity) and it works flawlessly. AFAIK, winflash installs and communicate through a kernel ...
by maman
Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:13 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: My guide to award BIOS reverse engineering
Replies: 25
Views: 38122

I've made quite a major update in some critical section of the article. CHANGE LOG ------------------ 1. Extension BIOS component decompression and execution routines corrected due to some minor misinterpretation in the previous versions of the article. 2. Added new section on microcode update routi...
by maman
Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:32 pm
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: My guide to award BIOS reverse engineering
Replies: 25
Views: 38122

Re: PCI expansion ROM 128KByte for MENUET OS

You think it's poss to even use 256 KByte flash-ROMs on a NIC? that would be enough space to burn in MENUET64 assembler OS... :wink: depends on the XROMBAR(Expansion ROM Base Address Register) of the PCI chip that's used in the card. If it can decode space that much, then it would be possible. But ...
by maman
Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:43 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: Extracting EVERYTHING
Replies: 3
Views: 4976

Re: Extracting EVERYTHING

How can i extract everything from my BIOS file? I've downloaded the original one from MSI's homepage (I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum), and so far i've been able to extract the CPUCODE the EPA logo and the ACPI table. However, I want to extract the file named 6a61cm4d.bin file that comes under 'Sys...
by maman
Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:23 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: My guide to award BIOS reverse engineering
Replies: 25
Views: 38122

Re: PCI expansion ROM 128KByte for MENUET OS

... so people can throw in their own code. seems like traditional BIOS makers haven'T adapted yet and oppose it. we can inject such a code indeed, even on current BIOS, but not too much, depending on the number of padding bytes that existed in the BIOS binary. Have you read Award BIOS Code Injectio...
by maman
Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:58 am
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: My guide to award BIOS reverse engineering
Replies: 25
Views: 38122

Re: NIC EEPROMS - bow much $$$ ?

whats needed now is info which 128KByte eprom fits into those cheapo rtl8139 NIC sockets subsequently to be copied into AMD64 adress space as MENUET64 execute-from-store assembler operating system... :wink: like this: The 8139 is probably the most cloned NIC in the world. The design of the ethernet...