It's certanly not so easy for BIOSes with another menu setup, but the whole idea is the same. I could also recommend trying AMIBCP to modify menu entries vilibility from "Default" to "USER", if your menu setup is more complex then a setup above.
ASUS UEFI Setup Hi JRandomHacker, thanks for your guide. On my P8Z77-V LX there's an interesting menu which isn't visble, but according to your guide I can't enable this menu as it isn't listed in the form settings section. That's the menu I'd like to see Form: BIOS Security Configuration, Form ID: 0x41C {01 86 1C 04 29 01} Any ideas? IFR dump attached. best regards View attachment 28780
nexus76, this is exactly what i'm talking about. Just change access to USER for all menu folders in the tree with AMIBCP and you will see it. You know how to flash the modified file, I assume. View attachment 28781
thanks!! :beer: View attachment 28782 Coderush, is there any news about where/how to unlock nvram-write for osx? What is the 'Lock ICC Registers' option? About 0xE2 unlock, am I right enabling this menu entry called SENFE, it's the only value for 0xE2 found: View attachment 28785
Not all AMI BIOSes have "Unclock C-States Config" option available for setup, and that SENFE option has nothing to do with MSR 0xE2, I think.
aha, the magic words 'C-State' Code: 0xBFAEE Setting: Package C State Support, Variable: 0x58 {05 A6 0D 01 0E 01 20 00 01 00 58 00 10 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00} 0xBFB14 Option: Auto, Value: 0x0 {09 0E FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00} 0xBFB22 Option: Disabled, Value: 0x1 {09 0E FE 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00} 0xBFB30 Option: Enabled, Value: 0x2 (default) {09 0E FD 00 10 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00} 0xBFB3E End of Options {29 02} View attachment 28787
If AMIBCP works on your BIOS use CodeRush's method for sure! Much safer and easier. I had to figure out how to do this manually as no version of AMIBCP I was able to obtain could successfully open my BIOS image. Maybe Dell's doing something funny or maybe it's due to the large size(8M)?
yes, it's most likely an issue with non standard-compliance I had simliar problems opening gigabyte ami roms. But it's not regarding the size, my ROM hast 8192KB too.
It's just a coincidence that the SENFE setting's value is stored at offset 0xE2 of the setup's variable storage. It has nothing to do with the 0xE2 MSR register.
Hello everyone! I have a Chinese Intel Atom Z7340D tablet here which is using an AMI Aptio Bios. Unfortunately there is something wrong with the Intel TXE Firmware which is causing it to turn off every 30 minutes. A solution would be to disabe Intel TXE, but unfortunately the menu for this has been hidden by the manufacturer. I already tried unlocking the menus according to this manual, but the file is looking totally different. I already tried changing it and flashed it but had a brick afterwards. Was able to re-flash a backup via USB and the famous CTRL + Home combo. I now tried doing it with AMIBCP, but this tool is crashing while loading the ROM. So I will now attach my Setup IFR file for you to have a look at. Maybe someone has an idea how to unlock all the hidden menus. Thanks in advance! View attachment 30304
Before I go and brick my motherboard I thought I would ask a question 1st. this is my ifr for my XPS 15 9503 Code: Form Sets -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Offset:Title: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x4A17FMain (0x71 from string package 0x0) 0x4A449Advanced (0x73 from string package 0x0) 0x4AB66Intel (0xA5 from string package 0x0) 0x4AC59Security (0x77 from string package 0x0) 0x4BA0DBoot (0x79 from string package 0x0) 0x4C2EFExit (0x7B from string package 0x0) 0x4C538Main (0x7 from string package 0x0) 0x5DC1AAdvanced (0x1D from string package 0x0) 0x681A0Chipset (0x1F from string package 0x0) 0x71E53Boot (0x21 from string package 0x0) 0x72F5BSecurity (0x3C from string package 0x0) 0x737F9Save & Exit (0x50 from string package 0x0) as expected it is the same as the 3800 listed by the OP. If I search for 01 01 00 01 01 01 it is found but the following is 01 not 00 Code: 01 01 00 01 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 It says to me that I have main enabled twice? Is it safe to change it all to 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01?
Hey. I've tried this on my AMI powered Asus laptop. This is what Universal IFR Extractor gives me: Code: 0x1456D Main (0x69 from string package 0x0) 0x14746 Advanced (0x7C from string package 0x0) 0x14BE3 Boot (0xBE from string package 0x0) 0x15146 Security (0xC6 from string package 0x0) 0x15815 Save & Exit (0xF0 from string package 0x0) 0x15ACD Main (0x6 from string package 0x0) 0x189D3 Advanced (0x1C from string package 0x0) 0x1B8A2 Chipset (0x1E from string package 0x0) 0x1F266 Boot (0x20 from string package 0x0) 0x1F702 Security (0x3B from string package 0x0) 0x1FB03 Save & Exit (0x4A from string package 0x0) Only the first five show up in BIOS, so I went ahead and opened the PE32+ bin in a hex editor and did a search for 01 01 01 01 01 and I found something like this: Code: 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 EE 2E 20 71 53 5F D9 40 AB 3D 9E 0C 26 D9 66 57 So, after the last 01 group, there are only 5 groups of 00, and I need 6 (main, adv, chipset, boot, security, save..). I went ahead and edited it anyway, filled the five groups with 01, saved and made the changes to the bios image. I've flashed it with ASUS' WinFlash, but I was still getting the basic menu. What can I do? Thanks
Hello guys, may this tut be used for Legacy Bios AMI? I set Lagacy standard for my lap although it supports both Legacy and UEFI. I am absolutely a newbie on this so sorry for this stupid question! Thanks in advance!
No idea on Legacy although I plan to find out (mine is also in legacy mode but should be full uefi capable as well). Looking at this right now on the bios for a Dell Vostro 330 AIO. I have AMIBCP and that can open the file just fine and I can even set everything to "user" with AMIBCP save and install the edited bios just fine but none of the hidden menus get enabled with that method. That does enable a couple of options in the already enabled menus that were hidden though. So AMIBCP will not work. Looking at my bios I am going to have to dig some to determine the order of things. AMIBCP shows the menus in a different order than the extracted setup_whole_ifr so its going to take some digging to determine what the order will be that I need to search for. I did find one section but there are too many 00 bytes both before and after that section to know where it starts until I can determine what order the bin file actually shows them in. I'm assuming the same order as the entire setup module for now. Still a bit confusing and getting it wrong means bricking the system. One thing I'm going to determine ahead of time will be to try the Dell bios recovery and make sure I can recover the board if a bad bios gets flashed. This system came factory loaded with Win 7 Pro so the bios is currently in a legacy mode. I'd also like to determine if the bios is truly switchable between EFI and Legacy modes and finally might look closer at the MXM graphics module that is loaded in the BIOS. On this system Dell has a single optional discrete graphics option (ATI card) or the on board Intel graphics. I tried a higher end MXM card and the system rejects it (no video at all) which I'm assuming is because the single MXM driver in the BIOS is for a different model MXM card. The only one Dell offers is an ATI HD5470 (which I do not have) but I do have an ATI HD6770 from an HP laptop. I'd probably need to somehow find the dxe driver and its associated pei module though to add it to the Dell bios.