GIGABYTE Modified Bios

[Amurtigress]

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Thank you very much!
There is still no update for the Gbe? Mine is 1.3 and I saw a thread for the X79 that had 1.5, but I can't find anything for Z87.

You probably mean my thread.

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/53618-x79-intel-gbit-lan-gbe-firmware-update-howto-also-socket-1155-1150-a-3.html

There's quite a chance for this to work for you too.

Virtualfred however found later that only 1 or 2 bytes were different in 1.5 compared to 1.3, we are very unsure tho if this means a real difference or not since this could mean anything from no change to those bytes being parameters that disable or enable features.

Hope that helps...

[JeanHarris]

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Yes that's the thread I was talking about.
I tried it before flashing my current BIOS, and it worked. Windows detected a completely different hardware (82579V instead of I217-V), but everything looked OK if I reckon correctly.
When I flashed this BIOS I forgot to update the Gbe so it's back to 1.3, and it works quite well too so I'm probably not going to update it, especially if there's little to no change.

[eBombzor]

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Hey TT I have a few questions about this modified BIOS:

1. What does this BIOS actually do/update?

2. Is MEI required for modified BIOS?

Thanks.

[kulica]

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Can someone please update a BIOS mod for the following motherboard: GA-P67A-UD5-B3

Thanks

[nobugsonme]

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Fred or Stasio,

Could one of you please build me a bios for the X58A-UD5 Revision 1.0 with all of the latest beta/modules? I believe it would just be F8b Mod 4 with the latest Intel RAID module.

Thank you very much in advance!

[Amurtigress]

Re: GIGABYTE Modified Bios

Yes that's the thread I was talking about.
I tried it before flashing my current BIOS, and it worked. Windows detected a completely different hardware (82579V instead of I217-V), but everything looked OK if I reckon correctly.
When I flashed this BIOS I forgot to update the Gbe so it's back to 1.3, and it works quite well too so I'm probably not going to update it, especially if there's little to no change.

Frankly I just had to look it up, the i217V was new to me. But it looks that the PRO/1000 PT (82572), 82579V and i217V are all successors of each other. The 579V had more features available in the driver than the PRO/1000PT, and the i217V seems to be a die-shrink of the 82579V that was only released in the last quarter of 2012.

It is possible that the i217V is having extended features too that might be disabled if it is appearing as 82579 now...you'd better leave that alone
if it's NOT the same chip.

[robbo84]

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@ Virtualfred

Hi virtualfred

If you have a spare moment, would you be able to mod the F4 bios for the X79S-UP5? Still having some issues with the latest F5C bios and since i have a rev 1.0 board I'm hoping going back to this one may help.
link: http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList...79s-up5_f4.zip
or ftp://download.gigabyte.ru/bios/mb_bios_x79s-up5_f4.zip

Many thanks in advance

[stasio]

[Lil_Heidi]

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Stasio, will MEI 9 work with X79?

[stasio]

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FW or drivers?

FW .....No
Drivers...Yes

[PhoenixLFire]

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GA-Z87X-D3H BIOS F8d mod
Modified with :
Intel Legacy RAID SATA 12.7.0.1936 to 13.1.0.2030
Intel EFI SataDriver 12.5.0.1815 to 13.1.0.2030
Intel Boot Agent GE 1.5.04 to 1.5.48
Intel GigabitLan X64 5.1.0 to 6.0.24
Intel PCI Accelerated SVGA BIOS 2179
Intel GOPdriver 5.0.1035
CPU Microcode Pack (with 6C317)
ME firmware 9.0.30.1482
Modified splash logo 2

[Lil_Heidi]

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I meant FW...thanks!

[tim.a.willis]

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Hi

GA-Z87MX-D3H BIOS F5 mod

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 1.5.43
Intel PCI Accelerated SVGA BIOS 2171 to 2177
Intel GOPdriver 5.0.1032 to 5.0.1035
Intel EFI VBIOS 1215 to 6767
Intel Haswell Microcode (06C3) 09 to 16
ME firmware 9.0.3.1347 to 9.0.21.1462
Modified splash logo

I know this is a few months old, but i tried this bios and I lost my Intel HD audio. Has this happened to anyone else?

[stasio]

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I know this is a few months old, but i tried this bios and I lost my Intel HD audio. Has this happened to anyone else?

Modded BIOS has nothing with any HD audio.
Try to clear CMOS.

[tim.a.willis]

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Modded BIOS has nothing with any HD audio.
Try to clear CMOS.

Then why would it come back when I flash stock bios back. Tried this 3 times just to make sure. Same results every time, the Intel HDMI audio would not load.