Presents if and only if the board has integrated Intel LAN, with minor exceptios like Z77 WS, that has two Intel cards but no GbE region. Has Intel BIOS Region Lock bytes at 0圆0 offset, that can prevent read and/or write access to another regions. Not affected by any ASUS BIOS tool, with one exceptions, that I describe later in section 5. This region must present and the board is unable to boot if it becomes corrupted. The new UEFI BIOS is common for almost all modern boards and described in Intel documents, that are belong to TianoCore project.ġ. S: Transfer the data from BIOS dump to another BIOS file with FD44Editor and flash modified file to SPI-chip using hardware programmer, as described in section 9.ġ. P: System is unbootable and remains unbootable after using USB BIOS Flashback. S: Edit your individual board data with FD44Editor and flash the modified BIOS, as described in sections 7 and 8.
P: After BIOS update my software activation is lost. Reflash GbE region, as described in section 5.
P: Integrated Intel LAN can't start, code 10 in device manager. Reflash ME region, as described in section 5. P: System detects all the RAM, but can use only a half of it. P: Turbo-multipliers are absent or not working. Recovering from unbootable BIOS using FD44Editor and hardware SPI-flash programmer. Using FD44Editor to add/edit individual board data in BIOS image.Ĩ. Using FTK to update ME from Intel BIN-file.ħ. Using FTK to downgrade/reflash/update the whole BIOS or some regions only.Ħ. Preparing DOS-bootable USB-flash with FTK.ĥ. UEFI BIOS and BIOS image file structures.Ĥ.
UPD: uploaded new versions of FTK8 (for C600/6/7 series chipsets, based on Intel FPT 8.1.40.xxxx) and FTK9 (for 8 series desktop chipsets, based on FPT 9.0.22.xxxx)īatch files for making your own FTK bundle are here: ġ. Please use normal ASUS solutions like EZ Flash or USB BIOS Flashback for performing updates of fully-functional BIOS. In addition: using this flashing methods and modifying your motherboard data is not supported by ASUS in any way and it could void your warranty, if spotted. Be prepared and don't blame me, if anything goes wrong. You make anything described below on your own risk, there is no perfect bug-free software and flashing the BIOS is dangerous. I'm open for contact, so if you have something to say - you are welcome. I apologize for my bad English, but I hope that it is much better that Google-translated one anyway. I have started this projects on forum about 6 months ago, and now the tools I developed are proven to be working, stable and reliable by large Russian overclockers community.Īt first, I didn't think about translating that to English, but I see many topics and messages all over the Internet, where people with CPU-multiplier stuck at 35x are asking for help, but receiving only responses like "Try to clear CMOS", "Buy new BIOS chip from EBay", "RMA the crap" etc. This topic is my reaction to situation with BIOS corruption problems on current ASUS boards and inability to recover from it using ASUS tools.