Zitat von chinobino im Beitrag #1350

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@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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Here

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I have put 2 videos on render, I wont be able even to restart my laptop for at least 10 hours, I hope an expert can give me an advise,
I have flashed vbios on my nvidia card, although I was 100% sure but it didn't work, lucky I could restore the old bios,
Reflashing Laptop bios is hard thing to do, I am preparing my self for a failure

EDIT by Fernando: Fully quoted own post and unneeded blank lines removed (to save space)

No reply, OK I am gonna flash now, wish me luck, if I didn't reply anytime soon that means I bricked my laptop!

My motivation:
First 128kb EC firmware has not been changed, the most critical part to boot.
I checked the the tables on the modded bios I made, and it identical with the original bios, just changes of the addresses and sizes, which is also mentioned in the table.
the modded bios I made has the same IRQ, DMA, all devices as the original bios.

My worries:
In the first bios released by MSI killer orom was 2.1.1.5 but in the newer bios release it was downgraded to 1.0.0.8. I upgraded again to 2.1.1.5 hopefully nothing will go wrong.
The dumped bios by Intel programming tool can't be modded without CRC check errors, that what made me hesitate, it should be the same as original downloaded bios.
Updating the CPU microcode was done ok but the UBU tool change the sorting in the table, I don't why, but I think this should be OK.
I did lots ok checks everything was fine, but still, when I was almost sure about the Nvidia vbios I was wrong.

Wish me luck

@NeverMore I do not have the modified version of cpu306C3_plat32_ver00000007_2013-01-21_PRD_4F685CCF.bin and posting it here could lead to a DMCA takedown request so I am not going to pursue it, sorry.

@NeverMore

For the modified microcode, you can download the latest BIOS (3.9) for the H87-G41 PC Mate mainboard from the MSI website.
Just drag that BIOS on the MCExtractor executable and you will get the microcode.

Can someone with admin and his contact info help out SoniX?

"
I can't get to the forum.
Problems with reCAPTCHA.
"

According to his MEGA upload of the latest version.

Not a stranger to reCAPTCHA issues, I always used to have issues with 3 things:

Browser's and/or extensions
VPN
Proxy's

Cant say I know which of these is his issue, but seeing as his location, he might have circumstances that cause him to need to do something which trips it up.
Hope he figures it out as reCAPTCHA does provide some protection.

Hooray! I went to the forum. :)))

@Net7 @plutomaniac

Thank you very much!

I don't know what happened. At some point, a message appeared that many requests were coming from me. After that, there was a logout and I could not log in anymore. The system started asking for confirmation that "I am not a robot" (Captcha).
My eyesight is not very good and the pictures are hard to look at.
I could ask for help with the cards.
But! When we clicked on the necessary pictures, then after selecting 2-3 pictures, the selected cards were discarded. And so many times on different browsers.

I could only hope that someone would interfere with the system or the system would take pity on me.

Ok.

MCE and Python.
I understand that a lot of people are having problems using Python. But this is a necessary measure, since many antiviruses give a false message that MCE.exe contains a virus. Therefore, it was decided to abandon the EXE file in the UBU.
On the one hand, there are pluses, but as we can see, there are also minuses.
I added 2 files:
- MCE.txt a simple guide.
- MCE_upd.bat checking and updating the MCE without starting the UBU. Updates the MCE.py and/or MCE.db.

I already informed earlier that if you do not want to install and use Python, then you can continue to use MCE.exe. But you will have to download and update this file yourself from GitHub.


Using a folder "Files\Intel\mCode\USR_mCode"

I have updated the readme in this folder.
It is important to know that if you want to use your list of microcode, it is mainly the format in the microcode file name. The file name format should be as accepted in MCE.
Other formats will not be valid.

I also added microcode 306C3 - 07 for HSB non-K.
If you want to implement it, then just edit the list MCUpdate.txt, section # LGA1150

Zitat von westlake im Beitrag #1346

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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

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@jen1

From all your messages, I understood only one thing - I did not understand anything.

But I can answer something.
1) VIOS AMD and nVidia for external GPUs in mobile devices are practically not available in the public domain. You cannot take a similar V BIOS from another device and start using it. They are configured for each card as in conventional video cards
2) Your actions with the backup are understandable. I didn't even attach a file with a lot of Parser warnings.
3) The order of the microcodes is not critical. They are read at the specified addresses in the FIT.
4) Your OROM LAN v1.0.0.8a(b) == v2.1.1.5.
This is one and the same file, only the messages for the screen have been altered and the version has been twisted.

In all other respects, you have an ordinary regular BIOS, nothing supernatural.

@SoniX thanks for the reply, I already successfully flashed the modded bios I made and attached. Maybe I will report the results if anyone with the same laptop as mine wants to flash it, it is totally safe



I just though as no one wished me luck so no one will care about me bricking my laptop

Zitat von SoniX im Beitrag #1362

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@jen1
3) The order of the microcodes is not critical. They are read at the specified addresses in the FIT.

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@jen1

The overclocking capability can be limited or disabled in the microcode itself. Therefore, you need to select a microcdo that allows you to overclock the system. Older versions are often installed.
Also, the manufacturer can disable the overclocking option in the BIOS itself (delete or hide the necessary menu items), very often this happens in new firmware versions. Then a rollback is made or an attempt is made to enable these menu items.

In general, sometimes it's worth thinking about whether these updates are needed and then it gets down to business.

@SoniX I still can overclock using Intel XTU, and the official bios from MSI allows me to overclock, all option are available in the official bios from MSI.

I never though the loaded Microcode will affect it, cause windows keeps updating Intel's microcode, and the loaded microcode will keep changing.

Just one annoying thing is that using the new microcode, my CPU is now always between 3.3 - 3.9 GHz even on IDL, it is faster but may overheat my CPU, before the clock on IDLE will go down to 1 GHz.

I should have said my CPU is Intel I7 7820HK