Zitat von chinobino im Beitrag #210

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@quochung88

Gigabyte BIOS are supported, I was able to modify those BIOS files no problem.

Try rebooting, then disable your antivirus software and try again.

If it still won't work and you have all the BIOS files in Revlaay's tool folder try adding .rom extension to each file and then patching;

B15MD3H3.F20c.rom
B15MD3H3.F20d.rom
B15MD3H3.F20e.rom
B15MD3H3.F20g.rom

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Sometimes MMTool will hang, if you manually close the MMTool Window(s) and leave Revlaay's Tool running it will complete the microcode patching.

You can verify the BIOS patching by opening the modified BIOS in UEFITool NE 53 and looking at the "FIT" tab at the bottom, which will list all the microcodes.

Or you can open the modified BIOS in UBU and check the inserted microcodes by selecting menu option 5.

So i have a MSI Z170A gaming pro and i was just wondering is the easiest way to do this just to grab the latest bios for the board and use this?
the 2 latest Bios updates for my board (Update 1.9 and 1.A) use ME higher than v11.7.x.1xxx but since this Downgrades it is it okay/better to use the latest due to other fixes the newer Bioses may have included?

Also the MSI bios are named XXXXXX.Patch-version so the latest is XXXXXX.1A0 and this tool outputs a .bin file, do i just rename the file to the offical bios name and change the extension type?

And finally i see for this you need to bridge 2 pins on the CPU and Isolate 2 others, I was just wondering what people use for isolating the 2 ? liquid rubber? electrical tape?

Zitat von chinobino im Beitrag #212

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Sometimes MMTool will hang, if you manually close the MMTool Window(s) and leave Revlaay's Tool running it will complete the microcode patching.

You can verify the BIOS patching by opening the modified BIOS in UEFITool NE 53 and looking at the "FIT" tab at the bottom, which will list all the microcodes.

Or you can open the modified BIOS in UBU and check the inserted microcodes by selecting menu option 5.

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It looks like the microcodes were inserted ok, you can also check the parser tab for any error messages.

Zitat von chinobino im Beitrag #215

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It looks like the microcodes were inserted ok, you can also check the parser tab for any error messages.

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Gigabyte quite often does not implement BootGuard correctly - check if the same error is present in the original BIOS, if it is then the modified BIOS is likely ok.

How did he managed to get the 9900k worked on his z170 without covering the pads under the cpu?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMdwjZhUO_g

MOCF only has two critical pins and I have seen several reports of users who did not isolate and either nothing happened or the pins burned out without further harm done. My guess: Asrock wired one of the reserved diagnosis pins that are now connected to ground. If you plug in an unisolated CPU, it will short that contact and depending on resitance the pin will cope with the current or smolder until there is no contact anymore. But as these pins were never indented to be used anyway and are not related to voltage supply of CFL, a nonworking contact is perfectly fine for anyone involved.

does this mean itll work with all 8th gen 8400-8700?
also how can i activate BCLK overclock on skylake

thanks in advance

You got microcode for six- and quadcore CFL (though old one for the latter), but whether it works at all with CFL depends on a number of other factors as well.
I think no one has yet achieved non-K OC with CFL. The old IMEs without "shutdown at more than 103 MHz" routine don't even support KBL. So you need CFL K sku for BCLK overclock, but obviously K sku can be overclocked a lot easier via multiplier.

no sorry you're wrong
skylake non-K processors can be BCLK overclocked

? Sorry, I thought we were talking about CFL/8series. SKL non-K can obviously BCLK oc. But you need IME from 2015 to do this. Afaik CFL won't run on IME that old. So one cannot have a UEFI that can do both non-K OC AND 8series.

oh thanks that makes sense
can you point me in the right direction for the IME from 2015?

I think it is not available separtely and IME downgrades require some tinkering anyway (there is a guide around somewhere here), but you will find it in any UEFI old enough to still allow non-K OC ;-)
Not sure when Asus introduced support, but Nov15-Jan16 releases are worth trying. Or try finding a non-K oc thread specific for your board. Having a 6700K I did not keep detailed track myself. Compared to CFL-mods non-K is at least easy to test - flash UEFI, check whether IME has actually changed, insert non-K skylake, set BCLK to 105 Mhz. If it works you find the correct UEFI.