for any with a P45 chipset there is bios recovery i dunno if this was posted yet but here just in case! Of course, the steps are similar to the standard AMI BIOS Recovery Procedure for internal floppy drives (rename corresponding BIOS File to AMIBOOT.ROM, hit CTRL + HOME after starting the system). What has to be done (tested on P45 Platinum): 1. An optical SATA Drive needs to be connected to one of the Intel ICH10R SATA ports. {After a lot of testing, I found that it does not work with the same optical drive connected to the SATA Ports hosted by the secondary JMicron Controller. Also, using an optical drive on the JMicron IDE/PATA port does not help either.} 2. A proper BIOS File has to be renamed to AMIBOOT.ROM and burned on an empty CD. 3. CMOS-Clear with main A/C power cable removed from PSU has to be performed. {If this step is not done, the system will reboot after pressing CTRL + Home and will not proceed with recovery procedure.} 4. Press CTRL + Home to trigger BIOS Recovery. -> The system should enter BIOS Revocery Routine. {Will basically work with both USB & PS/2 keyboard. However, a PS/2 Keyboard is recommended as the system will respond earlier to PS/2 Keyboard than to USB Devices.} What should happen now: 1. After pressing CTRL + HOME the LED Status should change to "Intializing Hard Disk Controller" and there should be access to the optical drive connected to the Intel ICH10R SATA ports. 2. It can take up to 30+ seconds until the BIOS File that was renamed to AMIBOOT.ROM is found. {Drive Bay can be opened to try a different CD without turning off or restarting the system.} 3. When the system finds the BIOS File, LED Status will change to "Testing RTC" and there should be a message on the screen indicating that the Flash Recovery Procedure has started. 4. Since the BIOS File is 4MB in size, it will take a while until the BIOS is actually reflashed.
I've probably found a faster way to mod those bioses. Since you are able to recover may I ask you if you would like to try for it? If not: Is there anyone else who is ABLE to recover his MSI board the AMIBOOT.ROM way? One time the new method is confirmed we can do a faster way to mod MSI!!!
Runs fine so far (with 1 GB Ram and 2,26GHz P4) so there is no reason to use it therefore *g* Dell is fine, too. I'll run the 32bit version, not the 64 bit one. *Crossed fingers* Yes, please go for it, I'll respond as fast as I can if it works! Regards, Highend
yen i will be receiving my motherboard on thurs! so i am not 100% on recovery yet but this is what someone posted i looked it up just in case! because you modded 1 bios for me already but i cannot try it just yet! your scaring me lol what is your faster way??
It's not that spectacular. To try again for SSV3 and to use MMTool 3.19mod21 fix. IMO SSV3 doesn't work here, because AMIMMWIN, that is used at Zhaoliang's automatic mod tool, cannot handle the manipulation of 1b module if its resulting compressed size has increased. (It always will at that method.)
Ups Thank god! So AMIMM screwed it up..... Since you are able to recover I'll do more mods......maybe later this night or tomorrow....have a look again! CU.
Hi Yen, ok, I have good and bad news I'll begin with the bad ones: 1. Install your bios 2. Boot from the server dvd 3. Before I'm able to select a partition I get a window where I have to provide a driver (I assume it's for the hdd controller) to be able to continue. There is no driver on the dvd (the board has two ata controllers that don't need a driver under normal circumstances) Next try: 1. Install old bios 2. Boot from the server dvd 3. Installation works flawlessly. No window where I should provide a driver... -> It seems something is messed up through the bios mod that prevents a normal installation The good news: 1. Install old bios 2. Install standard edition 3. Install your bios 4. Install certificate and the oem product key -> Works, activated So the SLIC table is working in your mod. Do you think it's possible to sort out the driver bug? This will be my testmachine and I'll do a few more server installations on it and always switching between the old and the new bios wouldn't be that nice *g* Regards, Highend
This is a strange issue, I've never seen before......it probably wasn't recognised by other users, since they did only one install of OS using original bios first......hmmmm....any other issues??? It's all about these cra**y tools. The modification is well done.... have to think about, I sure don't give up, cu later.....
No, I didn't find any other issues up to now with the modded bios. Good to hear that See you later, Highend
No way! Your latest version works perfectly. Flashed, installed ... No driver window, activation is fine Thank you so much Yen, brilliant work! Regards, Highend