Hi guys, first of all. Id like to thank you for having me and congratulate the AMAZING devs that find these "exploits" and share their work with us all. I'm new in here (which is pretty obvious) and wind up in here following the "rabbits hole" so to speak.
I'd like to explain if you let me, my current situation and any and all help provided would be very much appreciated.

- Currently I have 2 chips, both 4790 (non K). And the mobos holding the chips are an ASUS H81M-K and the other one is a GIGABYTE GA-B85-HD3 (rev. 2.1). Well, the chips as you probably already know have a max turbo boost speed of 4Ghz with 1 or 2 cores in use. 3.9 with 3 and 3.8 all core speed. What I'd like to do is "lock them" in 4 GHZ all core boost. Basically, turn a 3.6Ghz chip into a 4GHZ one (I dont know nor care if turbo boost still works after that). Thats all. An all core 4Ghz chip.
Reading around I found a couple of posts, comments and videos that pointed me towards the UBU tool. Which turned out to be the UEFI tool on this site. Something about the CPU microcode downgrade to v7 (although v7 allowed overclocking of non K haswell chips. Which Im not interested in. Well, I guess kinda? Since running it at 4Ghz all core speed would be TECHNICALLY an OC?)
Anyway, And thats where this post comes about. I downloaded the tool, tried snooping around but to be honest. Im terrified of messing my only 2 currently working computers by doing something stupid and force flashing them.
So TL;DR:
Is it possible to lock the chip at 4GHZ all core turbo speed? Is the tool the appropriate tool to do so? How would I go about doing it?
And I guess my most important question would be: Would any kind soul in these forums be so AMAZINGLY kind as to be able to help me by doing the mod themselves and sharing back the modded BIOS (of course, only if the aforementioned "mod" is even possible... Maybe Im talking out of my ass...) That would be really something else...
Just in case anyone is up to the job, and has a bit of spare time to do me a solid here are the 2 original BIOS:

ASUS:


GIGABYTE:


Thanks again, for everything and I really hope one of you guys that actually KNOW what you're doing decides to give me a hand. It would mean a lot.

Thanks.

*EDIT* Cant put links in so Im attaching the BIOS files. I hope thats Ok...

Hi. Unfortunately the latest version of UBU does'nt work with latest python 3.8.5, the statement is "Need Python 3.7 or higher" despite that i followed the instruction.

Zitat von izajasz im Beitrag #1337

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Hi. Unfortunately the latest version of UBU does'nt work with latest python 3.8.5, the statement is "Need Python 3.7 or higher" despite that i followed the instruction.

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@izajasz @MDM

Are you using Python from the Microsoft Store?

Outside of that question, like is instructed a few posts ago, you have to update/overwrite the MCE in the UBU folder.
Got the same error as you until I read that message and updated it myself (am using the one from the Microsoft Store)

https://github.com/platomav/MCExtractor/releases

Extract the latest release, go into the folder until you get to the 2 MCE files, then copy/cut and paste them into the UBU folder (if your not prompted to overwrite the existing files then you might need to grab a fresh copy, or make sure you have the 2 actual MCE files, not a folder or something)

Worked for me.

Hm, some how I managed to make it work with the newer 3.8.5., although it would not at first it took several PC restarts and update of colorama and pltable...

But he update of MCE. files from UBU is no-go still (Error: Failed to check for MC Extractor & Database updates!).

@Net7
No, if you put the .exe MCE variant in it, you wont be usig Python at all! Of course it works then, but that is not the point...
You need the .py one found if you download the "Source code" variant.

@MDM:
Gotcha, I went ahead and deleted the .exe but kept the updated DB and this is what I get when I go to the microcode section*:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mce.py", line 21, in <module>
import colorama
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'colorama'

EDIT: If I check for update MCE/DB after this, endless cycle :D
I do NOT get the "Need Python 3.7 or higher" error.

EDIT2: well, I actually downloaded a fresh copy of both MCE/DB and UBU latest so I was working with fresh files/directorys

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded fully quoted post replaced by directly addressing to the author (to save space within this very often joined thread)

Hi Net 7,

Install Python 3.8 and call the CMD.
Enter the following commands;

pip install colorama
pip install PTable

It should be!

@Net7:
Im using the version from python site, but the trick You mentioned here did it for me. Thank You ;)

@RoadrunnerDB:
I've removed the exe version of MCE and did everything You described. I've installed colorama before but did not have PTable, but still getting "Need 3.7 Python or higher" message.
Also, I just removed Python 3.8.5 and installed 3.7.8 and I keep getting the same error...

EDIT: I've tried the Store version of Python and it worked but i keep getting those errors: File "mce.py", line 959, in <module>
mce_hdr(title)
File "mce.py", line 897, in mce_hdr
hdr_pt,hdr_pt_empty = mc_table([], False, 1)
File "mce.py", line 862, in mc_table
pt.set_style(prettytable.UNICODE_LINES)
AttributeError: module 'prettytable' has no attribute 'UNICODE_LINES'

EDIT by Fernando: Natively separate posts merged and fully quoted text replaced by directly addressing to the related author (to save space and for better/faster access to this thread)

Install Python 3.8

pip3 install pltable

I used latest UBU v1_79_5 and wanted to add/replace other CPU-microcode with the option user-mcode. I placed the microcode-file, which contains only 1 code and has .bin-ending in the folder \UBU_v1_79_5\Files\intel\mCode\USR_mCode, executed the GenUSRmC.bat and started ubu.bat.

But it told me "nothing found" when choosing option "U". File USR_mCode was generated. What is the problem?

OROM VBIOS Kabini - 015.033.000.004.046101 date_02/03/15
OROM VBIOS Weston Pro - 015.049.000.019.053941 date_12/18/19 (+old versions)

..and some unknown VBIOS

This tool rocks, but I have issues,
Modding original bios file works OK, without problems, but modding the dumped bios from intel flash programming tool or saved bios from AFUwin will give CRC check fail messages all the time,
I already unlocked my bios, but is it OK to flash when these messages are show, here is just an example

Bios locked before flashing, And I was a little bit busy that made me wait although I think I am 100% safe to go, except if my hardware are not supported bu the new EFI drivers,

Anyhow, if someone can look into my files, I will flash them tomorrow morning as tonight I will be busy, here are my files.
Original bios https://download.msi.com/bos_exe/nb/E1815IMS.312.zip
The file I made to mode by deleting the first 2MB (Me region) the will be named Original.bin
The modded bios to flash will be named mod_original.bin
I think I am good to go, but an another opinion from an expert would be appreciated,
Pictures of UBU tools before and after modding, this tool is awesome

I always brick my devices by updating bios/firmware I don't know why I still do that

Hi, @sideskroll

Here's some quick method if you haven't done it yet.

Easy method
1. Download some old versions like UBU_v1_69_17_3 to downgrade microcode to version 7.
2. Change core ratio to max in BIOS

UBU v1.79.5 method
1. Copy "cpu000306C3_plat32_ver00000007_date21-01-2013.bin" to "UBU_v1_79_5\Files\intel\mCode\1150"
2. Open MCUpdate.txt and then insert older microcode and comment out the newer microcode like below

Zitat

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#LGA1150
40671 1150\cpu40671_plat22_ver00000022_2019-11-12_PRD_00B9F4B1.bin
#306C3 1150\cpu306C3_plat32_ver00000028_2019-11-12_PRD_DBD4CFD1.bin
306C3 1150\cpu000306C3_plat32_ver00000007_date21-01-2013.bin
306C2 1150\cpu306C2_plat32_verFFFF0006_2012-10-17_PRE_30531EB4.bin
306C1 1150\cpu306C1_plat32_verFFFF0014_2012-07-25_PRE_E86E3EB1.bin

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3. Replace microcode with UBU
4. Change core ratio to max in BIOS (You might need additional bios modding if your BIOS doesn't allow you to changing ratios)

Let me know if you encounter any problem or you'd rather want me to do it for you. I have managed to downgrade microcode on Z87, Z97 mobos and tested them with NON-K/Haswell refresh CPUs.

@ALL
I have a few questions about v1.79.5

1. This is about USR_mCode feature.

So i copied microcode file to USR_mCode then executed GenUSRmC.bat. It generated Usr_mCode.txt. Content looks OK. But when i press "U - Find and Replace from USR_mCode.txt" . It says "Nothing found - Press any key to continue". What am i doing wrong?

2. Search for available microcode in DB

When i check available microcodes by using "S" and entering "00306c3"

It shows all microcodes for that CPUID. There is a modded microcode such as this.

CPUID │ PLATFORM │ VERSION │ YYYYMMDD │ SIZE │ MODDED │ NOTES
000306C3 │ 00000032 │ 00000099 │ 20130121 │ 00004000 │ 1 │ Non-K OC

I assume this is just version number changed to 99 from 07 to avoid Windows pushing newer microcode. But i am still curious. How to download these microcodes? I looked around MCE github and found nothing.

Thank you!

@NeverMore

Zitat von NeverMore im Beitrag #1349

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How to download these microcodes? I looked around MCE github and found nothing.

Thank you!

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