GIGABYTE Modified Bios

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Hi, thanks for the ga z77 d3h mod 4 bios. I have been testing it through out today. I have noticed that the bus speed is greyed out in the bios and also locked at 99.8mhz while in windows. Do you know why this is?

Try checking your ME Firmware. Usually problems like that and losing unlocked multi's are because of ME firmware going bad or being incompatible, i.e. using ME8 firmware with a BIOS that supports ME7 firmware or ME7 firmware with a BIOS that supports ME8 firmware.

[virtualfred]

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Hi, thanks for the ga z77 d3h mod 4 bios. I have been testing it through out today. I have noticed that the bus speed is greyed out in the bios and also locked at 99.8mhz while in windows. Do you know why this is?

I just checked it with Z77X-UD3H F20a mod3's BIOS, same base and same content, and no problem with BCLK setting. Could you flash it again with Q-flash ?

Did you also check MEI version with MEinfo ?

[boe323]

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Does the 9.5 driver support x79 for ME?, or do I need the 8.1.40?

[snout]

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Does the 9.5 driver support x79 for ME?, or do I need the 8.1.40?

Hey Boe
Have you managed to flash your Assassin with the MEI Firmware to 8.1.40 ?
I have tried several methods now but without success. I,m running Windows 64 8.1 preview edition. i keep getting errors of one sort or another.
It will just not take.

[boe323]

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Hey Boe
Have you managed to flash your Assassin with the MEI Firmware to 8.1.40 ?
I have tried several methods now but without success. I,m running Windows 64 8.1 preview edition. i keep getting errors of one sort or another.
It will just not take.

Yes, flashed fine, PM me, ill send you 2 reg files to add elevated prompt to the folder. should let you flash it then.

[snout]

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Yes, flashed fine, PM me, ill send you 2 reg files to add elevated prompt to the folder. should let you flash it then.

Hey Matey Worked like a charm.
Many thanks.

[vfdb]

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I just checked it with Z77X-UD3H F20a mod3's BIOS, same base and same content, and no problem with BCLK setting. Could you flash it again with Q-flash ?

Did you also check MEI version with MEinfo ?

With Meinfo it flashes up quickly and an error text file shows up saying: Error 9470: Fail to load driver (PCI access for Windows). Also when I try to flash to the new ME version I get an error saying

Error 8716: Invalid usage.

[killkernel]

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Hi virtualfred and thanks a lot for the modified splash logo (and the benefits that this brings)!

I've a Z77X-UP5TH and recently i bought a Z77X-UP4TH (i love UP MoBos for their VRM... ) and i use them with 2 Sandy Bridge (Core i5 2550K and Core i7 2600K) under custom watercooling and "obviously" heavily overclocked.

I've tested many Beta BIOS and i must conclude that there is something wrong with Sandy (06A7) CPU-MicroCode Rev.29...
When i flashed beta BIOSes with Rev. 29 MicroCode @ same conditions and BIOS settings i loose stability and when i rolled back to previous used BIOS with Rev. 28 MicroCode i recovered stability instantly.

For this reason i've two special requests for you:

1) For the Z77X-UP5TH is it possible to have the F12j mod2 but with the previous Sandy (06A7) CPU-MicroCode Rev.28)?

2) For the Z77X-UP4TH is it possible to have the F9 (latest and official from GB and for me most stable BIOS) with your modified splash logo and all latest ROMs but with the previous Sandy (06A7) CPU-MicroCode Rev.28?

If removing Ivy E1(06A9) CPU-MicroCode Rev. 19 let gain some small space that can help in updating ROMs to even newer version or simply have less issues doing the BIOS mod, you can remove it because for sure i won't buy Ivy Bridge in future (too hot, i wouldn't delid them and from SB there isn't a real improvement in term of features and performances that can justify the IB CPUs).

I thank you in advance for your kindness and time that you'll deserve to my requests.

Have a nice week-end!

KK

Hi Virtualfred!,
if you have time to spend for my request, would you be so kind to mod these two BIOSes (Z77X-UP5TH F12j mod2 + Z77X-UP4TH F9 + both with Sandy (06A7) CPU-MicroCode Rev.28) adding the latest ME Firmware V.8.1.40.1416 directly into BIOS?
I would appreciate so much because i've some issues flashing the Modded BIOS + the ME Firmware from Windows.
If you encounter space problems in managing the MODs you can use your BIOS modified splash logo that I really like.

Thanks a lot for your patience and disponibility.

Good evening,

KK

[virtualfred]

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With Meinfo it flashes up quickly and an error text file shows up saying: Error 9470: Fail to load driver (PCI access for Windows). Also when I try to flash to the new ME version I get an error saying

Error 8716: Invalid usage.

Strange ! So... could you download again my F20a mod3 and put this fresh one on your USB stick, load default value in BIOS, save and exit, flash BIOS, then load default value again... and try again... thanks.

[boe323]

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Hey Matey Worked like a charm.
Many thanks.

Cool, windows 8 is very security conscious, tiles don't work if you disable admin, so this is the best way, glad it worked for you also.

[virtualfred]

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As I know Stasio is very busy at the moment, I help him a bit by modding the new stable Z87's BIOS Gigabyte released today.


GA-Z87X-UD3H Bios F7

Modified with :

Intel RAID for SATA - 12.6.0.1867 to 12.7.0.1936
Intel EFI SataDriver 12.6.0.1867 to 12.7.0.1936
Marvell 88SE91xx Adapter 1.0.0.0027 to 1.0.1.0025
Intel Boot Agent GE 1.5.04 to 1.5.35
Intel PCI Accelerated SVGA BIOS 2.1.71 to 2.1.75
Intel GOPdriver 5.0.1032
Intel Haswell Microcode (06C3) 09 to 12
Modified splash logo

The USB driver must be updated in advanced.

**NOTE :
ME Firmware 9.0.13.1402 should be flashed by yourself in Windows.

[virtualfred]

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GA-Z87X-UD4H Bios F7

Modified with :

Intel RAID for SATA - 12.6.0.1867 to 12.7.0.1936
Intel EFI SataDriver 12.6.0.1867 to 12.7.0.1936
Marvell 88SE91xx Adapter 1.0.0.0027 to 1.0.1.0025
Intel Boot Agent GE 1.5.04 to 1.5.35
Intel PCI Accelerated SVGA BIOS 2.1.71 to 2.1.75
Intel GOPdriver 5.0.1032
Intel Haswell Microcode (06C3) 09 to 12
Modified splash logo

The USB driver must be updated in advanced.

**NOTE :
ME Firmware 9.0.13.1402 should be flashed by yourself in Windows.

[virtualfred]

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GA-Z87X-UD5H Bios F7

Modified with :

Intel RAID for SATA - 12.6.0.1867 to 12.7.0.1936
Intel EFI SataDriver 12.6.0.1867 to 12.7.0.1936
Marvell 88SE91xx Adapter 1.0.0.0027 to 1.0.1.0025
Intel Boot Agent GE 1.5.04 to 1.5.35
Intel PCI Accelerated SVGA BIOS 2.1.71 to 2.1.75
Intel GOPdriver 5.0.1032
Intel Haswell Microcode (06C3) 09 to 12
Modified splash logo

The USB driver must be updated in advanced.

**NOTE :
ME Firmware 9.0.13.1402 should be flashed by yourself in Windows.

[virtualfred]

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GA-Z87X-OC Bios F6

Modified with :

Intel RAID for SATA - 12.6.0.1867 to 12.7.0.1936
Intel EFI SataDriver 12.6.0.1867 to 12.7.0.1936
Intel Boot Agent GE 1.5.04 to 1.5.35
Intel PCI Accelerated SVGA BIOS 2.1.71 to 2.1.75
Intel GOPdriver 5.0.1032
Intel Haswell Microcode (06C3) 09 to 12
Modified splash logo

The USB driver must be updated in advanced.

**NOTE :
ME Firmware 9.0.13.1402 should be flashed by yourself in Windows.

[D-an-W]

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Evening virtualfred, is this new "ME Firmware 9.0.13.1402" also applicable to our "oldskool" Z77X-UD5H boards?