Ga-p55a-ud3p hey guys i just modded a award bios using the award tool to my new Corei5/i7 motherboard and now everytime i boot i get checksum error and backup bios tries to reflash it does but when it reboots it gives me the same error. i managed to get into qflash and try to reflash original bios but i dont think its enough to overwrite some parts and i cant boot up any other way b/c it can not go that far. is it b.c of the tool? is there something new with these bioes?
i left it on which ever method is chose SSV3 and even trying to flash back to older bios original does not work. i m in the process of rmaing the mb now
hello My Friend i'm new member on this forums i will insert new slic ver. 2.1 in my Note book Sony Vaio VGN-CS390 DEB for activation Windows 7 please help me! what is tools for this Function?
Other ACPI Tables Edition Hi, thanks for your wonderfull toll, but i have 2 things to ask you: 1- Different editing format i've been insanely using dsdt editing and i see DSDT_NEW comes with a format usually different of the one used by dsdt editor here and there (based uppon iasl, naturally)... example: Code: Name (ATT5, ResourceTemplate () { IO (Decode16, 0x0040, // Range Minimum 0x0040, // Range Maximum 0x00, // Alignment 0x04, // Length ) IRQNoFlags () {0} }) in your tool is Code: Name(ATT5, Buffer(0xd) { 0x47, 0x01, 0x40, 0x00, 0x40, 0x00, 0x00, 0x04, 0x22, 0x01, 0x00, 0x79, 0x00 }) Is it possible to use the 1st format in the future? since the second is very harder to mess wit. I've already managed how o use it, but adding an option to use the traditional dsdts with your tool would be very nice. 2 - Editing other tables: Id like to be able to edit all the other acpi tables... is it possible? Im asking that cause your tool is the only resource that works ok with my motherboards for editing the dsdt (i dont even need the slic, indeed i appreciate) and i think we should be able to use it as a more wide award bios 6.00PG (gigabyte's) editing tool in the future Thanks in advance, Cartri
I have Tested SSV1 with my Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H(Award BIOS). It fails and brick my motherboard. I have manage to recover it using the pin 5 and 6 BIOS chip hack to force it to load from second BIOS.
Hi, am glad you got your bios restored. Lucky your a Gigabyte kinda guy. I now am also. As for the mod going south. I'm having a problem with all methods at the moment as the data moves and that should not happen. Only replaced or created in existing space. But, your first mistake was SSV1. It's posted all over the place that with a Gigabyte motherboard you use SSV3. No room for mistake, misunderstanding, or question. Why would you use anything else? Just a question. I myself have made much worse errors over the years so it happens to most unfortunately. Keith
Andy. I used v1.33 of the Award tool for a GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P (rev1.0) mb.. The bios mod attempt F5. The tool stated a success & I used suggested defaults. When finished, when comparing with the original bios (un-modded), it appears that every single line/address had been changed. You'd never know they were once even remotely the same file with just an insertion of a few slic numbers and names... Is this correct? I have patched many video cards, and the only change was data at certain addresses. I also tried patching the F5 bios with the Award bios patcher. It seemed to just patch a section of addressses and the rest of the bios was left intact. Which is right or what am I doing to produce these 2 totally opposing results? I cannot be the only person that noticed this. And the differences can only mean there are hundreds of failed mods. I've had many good flashes and bad, so I was forced to learn a bit more than my mind even wants to know. But I do know something isn't right. Two diferent mod methods and results so different it's scary. I can only wish there was someone who could mod my bios for me, cause my results are crazy. Flashing isn't a problem, neither is a bad flash or normal things that can scare regular users. But with my results I would be knowingly doing a bridge jump. Can you help? Either way, your efforts are astounding. Thanks. Keith
The tool just uses the Microsoft/Intel ASL tools depending on the creator ID.... it doesn't parse the DSDT data itself at all. The output is from them. Andy
Why SSV1. That was only added very recently for 1 specific motherboard..... the tool even defaults to SSV3 for gigabyte..... Andy
Hi, I've tried to mod my bios with award tool 1.33 (GA-N650SLI-DS4 rev F8F), but I've a Failed status when I open the bios file. What's the problem ? (I'm pretty sure that was working on an older version but I can't remember what version because I've already modded my bios)
Hello Andy, thanks for replying. Your tool would be UNIQUE if it let us create our own bios before SLICing it. Its already a great decompressor tool trough the " * " button, but it still doesnt let us make much things with our bioses but DSDT editing and - of course - SLICing. Since the objective of your program is really this, there is no problem but, it would be very nice if it could become a wide substitute to CBROM and MODBIN, specially to the boards in wich they dont work preperly and specially for HEX EDITING THE MAIN BIOS MODULE WITH CORRECT REINSERTION OD THE MAIN MODULE . Since LHA will always create a main module compressed with 2 bytes less then the original main module, its impossible to re-add the changed main module to an award bios 6.0PG (and all the gigabytes) without your tool, it would be just great if it could let us choose the modules we want before remaking the bios. All of this doesnt envolves SLIC at all, to be sincere i like SLIC but i dont need it, it would be really nice if your tool would become a broad award bios editing tool for those who KNOWS HOW and who somehow NEEDS to hex edit the main module. Told that, i ask you: 1 - Could your tool add the possibility to edit the SSDT Tables beyond only the DSDT table? If not all tables, only the cpupmref table? 2- Could your tool add the possibility to us to choose a edited main module (decompressed bin with exact hex size of course, only swaped hexs here and there) instead of the one within the provided bios? 3 - Could your tool add the hability to NOT include SLIC at all and be used just as a ACPI/MAINMODULE editor? something like "use dump folder instead of original bios" option would be a GREAT start, and would make your tool not only a SLIC inserting tool but the BEST award bios modding tool until today, since the problem with all the cbroms and modbins is always reinserting and checksums, and your tool corrects everything about it. Specially the reinsertion and modification of main module. Im experient in the tools your tool uses for bios modding (cbrom Lha) but cant understand how did you solved the 2bytes problem of LHA compression for the main module. I offer myself to give you my e-mail to alphatest any version you create about the above features asked, and help within the proccess. My motivation for all that is that i need to put a very simple hex edited main modules back into some gigabyte boards and cant do that with any tool until present days: You are the bridge. Thanks for your time, and please answer as soon as possible, ill try to PM you this message too, but i know myself how PMing can be irritating when you are the developer.
1.34 solved everything, now im able to perfectly edit the main module among with the acpi table in a very easier way then before, thank you andy!
Greetings, everyone. I went back all the way to September, and I don't see my Gigabyte motherboard mentioned anywhere. It's the EP45-UD3R socket 775 with award F5 bios. Has anyone done one of these motherboards yet?