@jcorrea I don't but it seemed to work anyway :p I'm going to install python and extract again to make sure everything extracts properly.

@ket
Without python, the script will not to be able to extract the images from modules. You will only have all uefi modules extracted to a folder.

@jcorrea ok thanks, python is unfamiliar to me I've only done some worth with perl. Is this error going to cause a problem?

@ket
Yes. You will only got all uefi modules, without extract images from them. Install python and everything will be ok.

@jcorrea I have python installed (v3.6.4) when getting that error.

@ket
Is python at yours path enviroment variable?

@jcorrea I don't think so. I think I might have found the problem though I clicked the first python download link I saw assuming it would be x86 and x64 but looks like it might of only been for x86. Going to install the python version i just downloaded for x86 and x64.

@jcorrea I have the images extracted now I needed to do the process on one of my other systems though for some reason my main system seems to really hate python I'll look in to that another time. The issue I'm having now is that all of the files extracted are read only and nomatter what I do the damn files will not let me edit them even with using tricks like grant admin full control.

EDIT: Hopefully that issue is solved now. I hate windows.
EDIT 2: Yes and no. Now windows is whining about the directory being too look despite overriding its 260 limit which means I still can't edit anything. Moving the file I want to edit, editing it, then trying to move it back doesn't even work.

@ket
You don't need to put the file back to the path. You only need to get the GUID (on folder name) to replace the right module (the file you edited) on uefi with UefiTool.

@jcorrea Ah ok, I was thinking the structure needed to remain unchanged. I'm on my way now . Would you have any interest in helping me track down and try to fix a few things in the Gigabyte Gaming 5 and Biostar X370GT7 firmwares? It doesn't look like Gigabyte or Biostar are ever going to fix them. In theory they shouldn't be difficult to fix I just need someone who is more familiar with UEFIs once they have been completely taken apart. Heres the things I'd like to fix for each board;

Gigabyte Gaming 5

Locate LED presets for RGB fushion to correct preset values for orange colour
Locate and replace memory compatibility table to fix broken 2400 and 2667 memory straps (I'm assuming this would be its own module so easy to directly replace once found)


Biostar X370GT7

Locate and replace memory compatibility table
Fix wrong memory frequency shown in the UEFI when memory frequency is at 3333MHz or above
Fix Windows Task Manager grossly misreporting CPU frequency when under load (this is a specific bug to the GT7 no other X370 board I have reviewed has this problem)

@ket
Do you have a way to recover a bricked uefi if something goes wrong? Cause everything about memories and behaviors are very sensitive, and I'm almost sure that we will get brick sometimes before we get a "patched" uefi.

I do, I'm all set up my end.

EDIT: @jcorrea, I've finished editing all of the images for the UEFI (my god there are a lot of them for the GT7 firmware... about 100!) after editing the images I manually added the missing information using HxD and made the image a bin file which should have made the file compatible with the main firmware image (I think) so I updated one of the baked-in images and tried the firmware out. Results were so-so, it sort of worked but some things were missing that shouldn't have and the updated image displayed some odd corruption.

After editing the jpg files what exactly needs doing to convert them for use within the main firmware image? Thanks

@ket
sorry, I did't see the edit cause it didn't appear on the history. After edit the jpg, you only have to add a new header and, replace that on UefiTool. On my ASRock it did work, but my board is a little bit old (a Z77 Professional), not sure how it will work with brand new motherboards. About the new image you get after edit, could you please attach the "old" and the "new" images? I will take a look on that, to try to understand what could cause the "glitches" you got.

About the fixes on Gigabyte and Biostar boards, I think we would start with Gigabyte Gaming 5, to replace the memory compatibility table. In this weekend I will take a look on that.

Forget to mention that I was "teaching" JAVA RESTFul to my wife and because of that, I was a little bit away from the forum.

@jcorrea No problem :) Attached is a small archive of one of the new UI parts for the GT7 along with the original UI part. For reference the Gigabyte memory compatibility table once found I'm thinking would be best replaced with the memory compatibility table from the Asus ROG STRIXX X370-F. I've reviewed and tested 5 different X370 boards now and the X370-F seems to have the best compatibility with Samsung B-Die memory which is what most people are using on the Zen platform. Fixing the broken 2400 and 2667 dividers is going to be an added bonus. No idea why Gigabyte haven't fixed that it is ridiculous that they haven't.

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