I think I read somewhere in the cfl mod threads that the newer management engine is only running on 14nm chipset like z390, but I may be wrong. Was thinking the same about the VCC pads and hope that 1) they use some RSVD pads near existing pcie connections for additional lanes and 2) that the 10. generation didn´t need the additional pcie lanes connected at all. but yes, as you say shifted rows would be a nightmare and need another mechanical adapter.

I am 99% sure that H410 and B460 reuse Union Point silicon (no USB 3.1, no CNVI are a giveaway), just like H310A and B365 did, so new IME must be compatible with at least Z270 and very likely Z170 as well. Making it believe that it is running on a Z490 if it ain't might be tricky, though. CFL mods usually use older IME to circumvent advanced detection techniques, but those old versions are unlikely to work with CML I guess. Either way: Pinout needs to be sorted out first. 10900K is definetly to expensive to just try and see what happens.

hi guys
i have MSI h110M-PRO-VD with 9100F B0 and ***ME version 11.8*** ... should i downgrade my ME version before flashing my bios with the bios file from CoffeeTime?? how i can do it in the easiest way?
thanks

hi guys. can someone do a bios mod for my asus prime z270-a . i just bought a i3 9100f and found out for this mod. :)

Zitat von pattinik im Beitrag #1211

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Zitat von pattinik im Beitrag #1208

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Hi all!

I just discovered this awesome modding thread! O_O
So I have an ASRock Z170 Extreme4 with a crappy i3-7100 and 16GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance. I upgraded the first BIOS chip with BIOS version 7.50, so Intel ME was updated to last version.
In your opinion/experience which is the best/stable/tested 8th/9th CPU it worth to buy and install?By your experience which is the best method to roll back the ME?

Thank you all guys!

Bye

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Hi all,
thanks to the all GUIDEs in this forum I managed to work it through. Using CH341A programmer and the amazing Easy automated Mod tool I flashed the modded BIOS I've got a 9th gen CPU working smoothly.
It was quite trick to short and isolate the CPU's pads, but with a good quantity of patiente is feasible!
Thank you all for your work! You rocks!

Bye

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Sill Question but where do I get coffee time to add the details?

Hello. This is a dump by FPT ( with Service Mode Jumper) of bios 1.14 ver. (latest BIOS from Dell official site) https://yadi.sk/d/CJOcmOH9pC8fOw .
Can it be possible to modify a BIOS to support just only i3-8100 or i3-9100 (i3-9100F)? Will be it enough to downgrade a ME version an add a microcode? Or may be Dell BIOS is different than the others like ASUS, Gigabyte etc?

Hello, I've brought a used Z170 Fatal1ty K4 and I plan to use my "old" 9600KF there (freeing my Z390 Aorus Elite for something more beefy).
Has anyone succeeded in having a 9600KF working on that board ?

EDIT: I'm still waiting for the pieces to gather, meanwhile I've dumped the flashes, both of them (they are the same). BIOS seems to be:

Zitat

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Vendor : ASRock
Model : Z170 Gaming K4
Chipset : Z170
BIOS ver. : 5.11
Released : 16/07/2015

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(but there's no trace of BIOS version 5 on asrock site)

ME analyzer says Version 11.0.0.7101 while Coffee time write this:

Zitat

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[ 1 ] ME ver. - 11.0.0.7101 # Consumer
[ 2 ] VBIOS ver. - 1020
[ 3 ] GOP ver. - 9.0.1025
[ 4 ] PCIe x16 - Activated
[ 5 ] SKU hack - Need patch!
[ 6 ] Cores sync - Need patch!
[ 7 ] Init 16CPUs - Activated
[ 8 ] ACPI tables - Need patch!
[ 0 ] Microcodes - 506E3 506E1 506E0

[ H ] ME HAP-bit - ME ENABLED
[ U ] FD Regions - Locks found!
[ M ] MAC-address - 888888888788

MCodes info - Found 3 microcode(s) in volume(s) 4

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MAC address isn't that nice, but this is a K4, so it doesn't have the integrated Intel NIC (but an Atheros 2400 "Killer NIC").

U must know about revision CPU, SRFAD - P0, SRG12 - R0
About hardware pinmod, I don`t know it.
Try this mod bios, but you must flash it with programmer.
https://mega.nz/folder/jH5jiQqY#rCZPyuaHKJPm30m__lA3og

@davidm71 working through the thread still, but I saw one of your earlier posts here and am seeing the same behavior. Just got a 9700k to replace an 8600k for my asus z170. Adaptive voltage worked exactly as expected with the 8600k (906ea/u0), but seems to not do anything whatsoever with the 9700k (906ed/r0). Offset works as does using ia ac/dc loadline to manipulate vid and thus vcore.

I used 0.01/0.01 ac/dc loadline right off the bat since historically, that along with llc4 produced roughly matching set vcore, vid, and reported vcore.

I then reverted them to auto and saw vids/vcores pushing completely unacceptable values even when underclocking.

Was your solution to play with the loadline values until you arrived at desired voltages? Or did you find a way to achieve working adaptive voltage? I've toggled svid/bclk aware to no effect.

Zitat von ziddey im Beitrag #1225

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@davidm71 working through the thread still, but I saw one of your earlier posts here and am seeing the same behavior. Just got a 9700k to replace an 8600k for my asus z170. Adaptive voltage worked exactly as expected with the 8600k (906ea/u0), but seems to not do anything whatsoever with the 9700k (906ed/r0). Offset works as does using ia ac/dc loadline to manipulate vid and thus vcore.

I used 0.01/0.01 ac/dc loadline right off the bat since historically, that along with llc4 produced roughly matching set vcore, vid, and reported vcore.

I then reverted them to auto and saw vids/vcores pushing completely unacceptable values even when underclocking.

Was your solution to play with the loadline values until you arrived at desired voltages? Or did you find a way to achieve working adaptive voltage? I've toggled svid/bclk aware to no effect.

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@davidm71

Thanks! Will play around some more later, but for now, I've settled on IA AC/DC loadline values of 0.25. This, along with LLC4, results in ~1.3v vid/vcore at 4.8ghz (~1.38v avx). Doesn't look like a good chip, but at least it's not that much worse than the 8600k it's replacing.

I modded my bios by hand for the 8600k (no tools yet), but just used revlaay's script this time around. 906ed ucode is a bit old (C6). You're saying adaptive voltage is fixed with a newer microcode?

With auto IA AC/DC loadline, I was seeing vids around 1.48v. Even without LLC, I'd imagine this would produce vcores in the mid-high 1.3s. Not unusual, but I'm trying to target no higher than 1.3v (electricity is $$$ and chrome likes to keep a core or two pegged if I'm not paying attention, so not good for 24/7)

Looks like the avx boost voltage is quite large at these loadline settings. With 0.01, I saw +0.015vid with my 8600k. I'm seeing about +0.065vid with ac/dc loadline of 0.25.

Zitat von ziddey im Beitrag #1227

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@davidm71

Thanks! Will play around some more later, but for now, I've settled on IA AC/DC loadline values of 0.25. This, along with LLC4, results in ~1.3v vid/vcore at 4.8ghz (~1.38v avx). Doesn't look like a good chip, but at least it's not that much worse than the 8600k it's replacing.

I modded my bios by hand for the 8600k (no tools yet), but just used revlaay's script this time around. 906ed ucode is a bit old (C6). You're saying adaptive voltage is fixed with a newer microcode?

With auto IA AC/DC loadline, I was seeing vids around 1.48v. Even without LLC, I'd imagine this would produce vcores in the mid-high 1.3s. Not unusual, but I'm trying to target no higher than 1.3v (electricity is $$$ and chrome likes to keep a core or two pegged if I'm not paying attention, so not good for 24/7)

Looks like the avx boost voltage is quite large at these loadline settings. With 0.01, I saw +0.015vid with my 8600k. I'm seeing about +0.065vid with ac/dc loadline of 0.25.

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yeah, both ia ac and dc loadline to 0.25. At 48x100, it results in 1.3vid non-avx, 1.365vid avx. Bottoms out at 0.633vid at 8x100

edit: dropped to 47x100 with 0.02 loadline. Vcore must have been dipping too low in transition or partial load.

edit2: looks like cstates (at least deeper than c1) will crash. assumedly, this is the same low voltage issue

Hi,

I got an i7-9700 (none K) for my Asrock z170m extreme4.

Unfortunately Windows is booting only if I set the CPU clock to 800Mhz (battery safe mode in BIOS, Boost and stepping disabled). The CPU Auto settings are probably wrong. Already tried to set VCore to 1.3V (fixed)

Before I start random combinations in the BIOS settings. Any idea which bios settings I should start with to get it stable at normal CPU clock?

regards