Hi. I also want one, but that's prob difficult or impossible at present because even none of the masters here have succeeded in modding a pure Intel BIOS. First of all we need to unvail and know the way how Intel BIOS' are compressed, then create a tool to hack them.
@Yen... I've come across a Phoenix bios that doesnt have any "RSDT", "XSDT", "SLIC", or anything similar inside BIOSCOD*.ROM. I've checked them all. So my question is: Do I only have to add the ACPI table containing the SLIC ? Or do I have to do something aditional ? Thanks for your time..
I never saw a Phoenix bios without a ACPI table. I guess it's not ACPI conform. You need a RSDT and a SLIC to perform a SLP2.0 activation. So if you expand the bios with PBE you don't see any ACPI*.ROM code? No Acpi table (RSDT) with AcpiScope? In that case you can't mod it with known methods. You can post a link to, I'll have a look anyway.
Yes, Cbrom is for Award bioses only, not for AMI. I don't need the view option, so I never cared about to get it to work. I simply load the bios, go to edit bios modules. Here you can see all present modules, their addresses or Device and VendorID's. The only annoying thing is that if you want to REPLACE a module you have to use the proper command to be typed at DOS prompt. Hint: Be careful when you edit the 02 runtime module, which is the Mainbiosmodule. To go a safe way edit some other strings as well after you have inserted your desired OEM string. Replace the 02 module and check its new compressed size. It should result to have exactly the same size as before. If not, edit the strings again (insert space 20h to get it down) and replace the module. Editable strings therefore are other text strings, no code of course. To go by try and error. Once you have got the same size again, get a untouched bios file and replace it again. Now you can be sure that no offsets of any other modules have been moved. This operation isn't necessary at all old AMI bioses. But how knows?
Thanks for the information on this. I have learned a lot from all of this. Everything you spoke about in your last append is much clearer now. As far as modding my old bios, I've decided it put this on hold since I would have to convert my Dell installation disks to ASUS. If I can verify that the ASUS mods done on the bios I downloaded are good, I'll try loading and testing it to provide feedback for other users. It's to bad I can't find out who might have modded the bios originally. Regards, and thanks for all of your time. jj
mode=3 means update bios and DMI (renew DMI) mode1 and2 means update DMI only or update bios only, but I'm not sure what order....../mode=3 /BBL is for 'full flash' of bios, bootblock included.
Since it is a rare kind of mod I can say the following about your 'old' bios: Zhaoliang programmed the PCI code therefore. He developed that approach.The time I had contact to him, he provided the code to me. I did only a few old AMI, Award and one working Phoenix. I've introduced his way here at forum. Fzeven knows all about as well. This was thought as 'last' option... AFAIK it worked at Award, AMI and one Phoenix bios. The bios must have the ability to boot from LAN therefore. About the ASUS mods I don't know.....
Phoenix BIOS mod Has anyone been able to mod the newer versions of Poehix bios'es ? That is Phoenix BIOS ver. 5.00 Not the old ones : PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.1 Edit. And if so, which tools are used to mod this kind of bios'es ? I will do some reading on Rebels Haven, to see if I can get some info.