You're welcome! It was funny to see that hassle I ran into, every once in a while you need to use one tool for this and another for that, but it was quite the fiasco and surprised me for such a simple textual edit.
Appreciate the offer, but no I don't do any folding. As for BIOS Version number, what do you mean? And no more time needed to waste on this, I can edit it to say whatever you want now.
Ohhh! You mean the in BIOS version, yes, I would need to spend more time and find that one, probably in assembly somewhere.

Yes, flashing BIOS resets things, and you should load optimal post flash too, then reset everything to what you originally had set.
You can F12 screenshot to USB if that makes things easier, but you'd need to be looking at those images on something else while you're in BIOS

I dumped the last bios you worked on for me some months ago onto the spare bios chip I have. I do not intend to brick my board, but one never knows what stupid antic I might engage in unwittingly. So be prepared is my motto. I want to also take this opportunity to again thank you for what you are doing for Assimilator1 since it will also benefit me by being able to remind myself that I am on an especially tailored bios that enables my aged board to run the latest and greatest WD SN750 despite ASUS telling me to buy a new board. Thanks!

@ClarenceE - you can always redo it today, and have fresh backup, then use the new BIOS I made, if you wanted.
I don't remember what all we did to your BIOS, so keep in mind that BIOS is only what Assimilator1 gave me, I didn't edit anything other than the BIOS name as mentioned, you'd have to check with him what all has been changed other than NVME mod

I only added the latest NVMe module (dated 4/18), not the 'small' version, which I found from the Bios modding thread here. I used MM Tool to do it.

And yea you'd think a simple text edit would just require a simple text edit! ;) lol
Re DC offer, not just folding@home, their are many other projects :)

Yea I meant in bios version.
Good point on taking screen shots, didn't think of that! And I have a 2nd PC I could look at them on.
What does load 'optimal' optimise?
And thanks again for your work :), I already have the SS 970 evo+ & adapter installed, so I will flash the bios soon & let you know how it goes. Then I will have to consider whether to install win 7 again, or 10 on it, bleh!

Right! On your board it is just a simple hex edit to two files post extracting them, then reinsert, all done. However I did do some double checking in assembly too but that wasn't required part of the editing.
It's my luck, I choose that board first to use as test, I should have just picked another one once I ran into all that, but BIOS modder in me said to move forward and not go the easy route

For optimal, I meant load optimized defaults, from the exit page of BIOS, I think Asus calls it optimal.

Waiting to see screenshots of your POST Screen I say give it Win7

One again thanks for the wisdom. I am monitoring and expect Assimilator! to enlighten us all on the results. Meanwhile I have the modified bios you worked for me loaded on my chip ready to go; if needed.
Just to refresh, my biggest issue was not being able to get the latest and most apropos C600 series Intel Management Engine Interface, which is very fine right now thanks to you.
Grüß Gott

@ClarenceE - what all mods did I do for you before, do you remember? If you want, once Assimilator1 confirms it's all OK, you can send me a copy of your BIOS and I can apply this mod to your already modified BIOS

Well, this is odd, flashed the bios & it booted fine, & once I got rid of the logo I could see it said 4801-NVME :) (& I saw an extra drive appear in the boot menu, PATA SM, which IIRC is the bios seeing the NVMe drive but mislabelling it?).
But that bios introduced an odd problem that I couldn't see any connection to! Lol.
Anyway, I noticed the default 'auto' cpu vcore was below default at 0.93v ish, no probs I thought as I'd planned to manually set it to 1.14v, & the VCSSA to 1.11v anyway. On rebooting & going back into the bios I saw it set the vcore to 1.5 (shite!!) & VCSSA was still just below 1, rebooting & trying other values had no effect, switching to offset mode & putting in values had no effect, setting back to auto put them back to down to ~1v (phew). Then I realised I'd forgotten to load optimised defaults, Doh! So I did that, but then the vcore & VCSSA was stuck at just under 1v anyway, no matter what I put in.

So even though I couldn't see how the 2 features were connected, I flashed the bios to the one I'd modded (adding NVMe support), & the cpu vcore & VCSSA voltages behaved as they should (& the PATA SM was visible in the boot menu, but of course no NVME is shown on the post screen :( ).
So sadly, it seems, that somehow the POST message screen edit has had some very bizarre side effects knocking out manual voltage control for (at least) vcore & VCSSA.
Any chance you'll be able to fix that?

@Assimilator1 - Yes, I disabled Fast Boot, and disabled boot logo, then increased post delay time to infinite (until user pushes ESC), so I could take you those images.

PATA SM or PATA something is what NVME mod BIOS always says I though, until you set things up properly, then sometimes it might change to windows boot loader or something like that. Sounds like you don't have all settings exactly as you did before possibly?
But yes, the rest does sound odd! Not sure how anything I did would cause that, but we can narrow it down and confirm if you want, I edited two modules for this, so I could send you mod BIOS with only one each and you could see which causes that.
Then I could take the module we know causes that, and try inserting with different tools/methods, in case certain tool is causing that on the rebuild?
If you want to get started and do that test, here is two BIOS to check, #1 - POST only has the POST module edited #2 - DMI - only has the other edit, which shows up in CPU-z, windows etc.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...820862262912781

If it is due to the POST edit, I can try inserting that with a few other methods and see if that matters or not.
I'm confident the edit itself is fine and not part of this issue, I think that may be more due to how it's reinserted and rebuilt, possibly messing with some other module.
If we can't make it work, then we can just not include that edit, and have it to where you only see in CPU-z and other in windows type info apps.

I just hit the pause button to take a photo of the POST screen ;)....... I think that still works, lol, or I just timed my photo right.
Re PATA SM, yea I haven't installed anything on that NVMe drive yet. Currently still running Win7 from the SATA SSD.

Yea I'd like to get to the bottom of it too, although I'm somewhat concerned about putting 1.5v through my Ivybridge CPU again! But I guess if I just zip into the bios quickly to manually set a voltage then it shouldn't harm it too much.
I will try those 2 bioses once I have finished stability testing this 4.2 GHz setting. And thanks again for the ongoing work :).

Pause may work still, I didn't think of that

Yes, I'm sorry 1.5v may happen in these tests, but I think it's only way we can find out. Was it maybe a glitch, or did you see it twice and know it was actual/always?

I saw it many times from multiple reboots, vcore displayed in the 'simple' view on entering the bios, & confirmed in the advanced section (& monitoring). Didn't check with my DMM though, wouldn't have a clue where to stick it for that ;).

That would convince me too, at least we know for sure it wasn't a one time glitch, but yes without checking via DMM you'd never know for sure, but it's probably correct
So, keep it short and get in there and set quick

Will do, been side-tracked by other stuff atm ;), but I will come back to it soon.

Hello ....
I really need help and hope you can help me.
Also have an Asus P9X79PRO and the latest modification loaded here, even the old before.
Problem with both is, if I over BUpdater or also over BIOS EZ2 tries to load the mod, comes Security verification failed.
Haber already searched a lot of forum for it but all attempts ran into the void except for one where I hope he had another mod for another board. But at the beginning the problem as I have.
There was probably the problem that the checksum "CHECKSUM = 8" was wrong. How do I get the mod on my BIOS?
Have a addlink S70 1TB SSD NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 (auk1TBS70M2P) on a PCIe 16x adapter card.
Thanks a lot and hope you can help me.
I have solved ... a other USB Stick and Flash by standby to push and hold the Update Button
Thanks