@nimaim - can't wait, thanks! I hoped you'd try this morning, but I also thought I caught you in time last night too. I think due to all the effort put in there, I was more excited than you, since you've been dragged down by all the testing

@truelector - do you mean this image

If yes, see PM. Keep image jpg, same size, DPI, Bit Depth (8), RGB/8. You can try larger image, or PNG, but be ready to recover in case it fails.

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #133

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@nimaim - I'm in there now, maybe will get you a RC BIOS to test tonight before you get too tired!

*Edit 2 - @nimaim - here is RC1 test if you're around and ready! Please take image of main page of BIOS, so I can see how it all looks (want to see all menu's across top now), thanks - Exit might be on end now, due to hide OG Exit and expose Save & Exit
main x2, Adv x2, chipset, boot x2, security as-is, switched exit pages (Hide OG)
http://www.filedropper.com/gk5cn6zesibio...c13509-mod-rc1f

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Looks Fantastic. I wonder if there is a difference with the OP-LP3 bios which I have attached. So basically go back a few posts for the procedure? If you want to have a quick look to see if the edits will be the same or not, I attached the FPT backup.

@nimaim - Awesome! Thanks for the pics too! Yes, menus renamed directly in AMIBCP at root level. If you double click on entries you can rename. Back in the day, old versions of AMIBCP & old BIOS, you could copy paste and move stuff around.
No, I didn't attempt any further moving around this time. Original exit hidden by adding it to the block of short hidden menu ID's, and then the smaller chunk hidden menu's with the longer ID. I'll look over those notes/steps I wrote tonight and see if anything needs added from my current working notes
If you still are unsure about any of the changes I made, go back and look at the 3 hex locations I gave in the info previously, and then compare original and current module via hex at those locations and you'll immediately see the changes

On Save & Exit page, what is inside windows push button reset? It looks like a sub-menu in the image, and in AMIBCP, but nothing sub-directory there for it in AMIBCP and in the IFR there is maybe 30-50 individual "numeric" entries under it

You're welcome! And thank you for being able and willing to test as we went along, without that process it's very hard for a modder to get things accomplished in any sensible manner, especially without having one of the items in hand.
I don't think we missed anything, but only you can take images inside each and every section and then compare to AMIBCP to see if anything is missing in any section.
Some things do not appear until hardware supports it, or setting above/related is enabled/disabled, but there may also be still things hidden that could be made visible that don't relay on some other setting or hardware to support them, you just have to look through it all and figure that out.
Or send images of inside each and every section and I can check. If you do that, please batch resize them all in photoshop, or use 7zip to package and use max compression, or change something in your camera for smaller images (Since you're images are nearly 4MB each)

I'm going to repackage the original link I posted on previous page and update the link, with BIOS images and a info note in there, do you think I should go ahead and update the CPU microcodes too (or add any) before final packaging, or leave those as-is and let users update by request/as needed?
Current ones are 906EA & 806EA, both from 1/21/18 (recent, but still out of date). Sent via PM too, guess I missed you, if you think this would be wanted by a majority, I will repackage again later on.

@CPL0 - nailed it finally! In case you ever come across anyone needing to modify these or similar BIOS, method notes are on previous page (Post 94 and 99 I think).
Thanks for your help and thoughts during the process too!

@truelecter @pcfr33k @Johnazz @lKinder_Bueno @Zeddi - final BIOS on previous page on post #133 if you needed, it's ready and safe to use

Huge thanks nimaim for all his testing as we worked our way through figuring out this mod! Final BIOS posted @ post #133
Without that it would either be impossible or have taken forever and made many users impatient and mad or wanted to give up trying

@pcfr33k - Thanks! It took us a while, but once I found the key we only had to nail it all down to where it looked best.
I remember that BIOS name, you asked before and I replied with info I think, didn't I, I'll check back and see - I checked, it was Zeddi that asked, info on post #118 for OP-LP3 BIOS, and yes see posts #94 and #99 for method's general idea.
Don't edit and share a FPT backup with others, you may loose their serial, UUID, other system specific info by replacing their info with yours.
Edit stock BIOS, then you can flash via FPT if you want, but you would possibly loose details that way too, best to flash stock via stock method, or if editing FPT dump don't share it with others (Best way if only doing for you)
If you get stuck, or can't figure it out, let me know I will do that one too

Does that backup have full information, any way of doing a backup without having all the information? A command switch with FPT? The problem with the stock Bios is that its an older version, the ones that come in the newer OP-LP3 are newer than what is on OP site.

@pcfr33k - Do a backup to keep for yourself, that's fine, even to mod for yourself is OK too. No way I know of to backup without saving your specific info into the file.
Find link to newer version, that is what I would do. Link me to the onsite older version and tell me the name of the new version, maybe it's already on their server just not linked, or did you already look/try that?

Amount of info depends on where it's all stored in BIOS, and what FPT command you use to backup or reflash. LAN MAC ID is often stored in GbE region, but not always.
All other info like UUID, Serial, etc is always stored within the BIOS region, which is what you'd edit and reflash mainly for a mod BIOS, so you can't dump/edit/share/flash via FPT otherwise whoever flashes put in your details unless they gather their own info first and edit it into the file in place of yours

*Edit 3 - what you could do, is edit and share only the AMITSE/PE32, and AMITSE/Setupdata modules (And setup PE32 if you edit that). None of these details are stored in those modules.
Then users could modify their own dumps with those files, if you do that's it's not advisable to have them put into the older BIOS, only new BIOS since there may be differences between the modules in new/old version of BIOS.

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #141

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@pcfr33k - Do a backup to keep for yourself, that's fine, even to mod for yourself is OK too. No way I know of to backup without saving your specific info into the file.
Find link to newer version, that is what I would do. Link me to the onsite older version and tell me the name of the new version, maybe it's already on their server just not linked, or did you already look/try that?

Amount of info depends on where it's all stored in BIOS, and what FPT command you use to backup or reflash. LAN MAC ID is often stored in GbE region, but not always.
All other info like UUID, Serial, etc is always stored within the BIOS region, which is what you'd edit and reflash mainly for a mod BIOS, so you can't dump/edit/share/flash via FPT otherwise whoever flashes put in your details unless they gather their own info first and edit it into the file in place of yours

*Edit 3 - what you could do, is edit and share only the AMITSE/PE32, and AMITSE/Setupdata modules (And setup PE32 if you edit that). None of these details are stored in those modules.
Then users could modify their own dumps with those files, if you do that's it's not advisable to have them put into the older BIOS, only new BIOS since there may be differences between the modules in new/old version of BIOS.

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Give me the link to the current latest BIOS, and the name of the one on your PC now, maybe I can find link to latest.

I did not lay out exact edits, only explained the steps and showed the locations, if you understand that and get the gist of what you need to do, then yes it will turn out exactly the same.
I did not mention renaming menus in that info, this was discussed later on/recently, change the hidden menu names in AMIBCP at root level. I'll edit that into 94 or 99 right now (Done @99).

The test BIOS that didn't work were regarding other edits, not the main menu enabling that you're wanting to do and that the info at 94+99 covers.
Failed BIOS tests were about moving menus around physically, and maybe some other things I can't remember, but for this main goal here revealing hidden menus we've not had any failed BIOS that I can remember
Maybe early on there was some failures, before post 94, but I think only failed to work and show menu, not failed=bricked

If you can't get it, I can do for you, send me your dump if you want.

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #143

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Give me the link to the current latest BIOS, and the name of the one on your PC now, maybe I can find link to latest.

I did not lay out exact edits, only explained the steps and showed the locations, if you understand that and get the gist of what you need to do, then yes it will turn out exactly the same.
I did not mention renaming menus in that info, this was discussed later on/recently, change the hidden menu names in AMIBCP at root level. I'll edit that into 94 or 99 right now.

The test BIOS that didn't work were regarding other edits, not the main menu enabling that you're wanting to do and that the info at 94+99 covers.
Failed BIOS tests were about moving menus around physically, and maybe some other things I can't remember, but for this main goal here revealing hidden menus we've not had any failed BIOS that I can remember
Maybe early on there was some failures, before post 94, but I think only failed to work and show menu, not failed=bricked

If you can't get it, I can do for you.

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Ohh yes, crap, never mind! Maybe send them email and ask for latest BIOS only package? See my edits above

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #145

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Ohh yes, crap, never mind! Maybe send them email and ask for latest BIOS only package? See my edits above

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Reply to that same email and ask for update package now, or single link BIOS attachment in email reply.
Otherwise, tell them they should remove the "Contact Us" links if they don't want to help customers, that's lazy, it takes two seconds to attach a BIOS file to email or 1 minute to update link on their site.

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #147

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Reply to that same email and ask for update package now, or single link BIOS attachment in email reply.
Otherwise, tell them they should remove the "Contact Us" links if they don't want to help customers, that's lazy, it takes two seconds to attach a BIOS file to email or 1 minute to update link on their site.

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If not, they're "UnderPowered" - tell em we said so! if they wont send you BIOS, tell them to at least update and correct the available 10GB download with proper latest BIOS

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@nimaim - Awesome! Thanks for the pics too! Yes, menus renamed directly in AMIBCP at root level. If you double click on entries you can rename. Back in the day, old versions of AMIBCP & old BIOS, you could copy paste and move stuff around.
No, I didn't attempt any further moving around this time. Original exit hidden by adding it to the block of short hidden menu ID's, and then the smaller chunk hidden menu's with the longer ID. I'll look over those notes/steps I wrote tonight and see if anything needs added from my current working notes
If you still are unsure about any of the changes I made, go back and look at the 3 hex locations I gave in the info previously, and then compare original and current module via hex at those locations and you'll immediately see the changes

Yes that would be great if you could consolidate your notes! Does not need to be super specific but just a rough outline of how you did it. That way you don't need to spoonfeed us every time :) Yes I will definitely compare to see what you changed.

On Save & Exit page, what is inside windows push button reset? It looks like a sub-menu in the image, and in AMIBCP, but nothing sub-directory there for it in AMIBCP and in the IFR there is maybe 30-50 individual "numeric" entries under it

Will verify when I get home.

You're welcome! And thank you for being able and willing to test as we went along, without that process it's very hard for a modder to get things accomplished in any sensible manner, especially without having one of the items in hand.
I don't think we missed anything, but only you can take images inside each and every section and then compare to AMIBCP to see if anything is missing in any section.

Sure!

Some things do not appear until hardware supports it, or setting above/related is enabled/disabled, but there may also be still things hidden that could be made visible that don't relay on some other setting or hardware to support them, you just have to look through it all and figure that out.
Or send images of inside each and every section and I can check. If you do that, please batch resize them all in photoshop, or use 7zip to package and use max compression, or change something in your camera for smaller images (Since you're images are nearly 4MB each)

I'll try to see if all the options are there. I think they are, but I only checked a few I was interested in.

I'm going to repackage the original link I posted on previous page and update the link, with BIOS images and a info note in there, do you think I should go ahead and update the CPU microcodes too (or add any) before final packaging, or leave those as-is and let users update by request/as needed?
Current ones are 906EA & 806EA, both from 1/21/18 (recent, but still out of date). Sent via PM too, guess I missed you, if you think this would be wanted by a majority, I will repackage again later on.

Thanks! Yes I think the microcode updates can be beneficial to package along with this. Maybe keep it a separate update for those that just want the original 1.05 with unlocked menus?

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