Hi,

I have separated pci-e AST1300 card. Gigabyte GC-IVA.

I have tried to update vbios and uefi gop with ASpeed own packages. aspeedtech support downloads
Actually they have a nice package that containing all. There is directories:

UEFI - *.efi files, UEFI_ROM - *.rom files, VBIOS - *.396 (rom) files, VBIOS+UEFI ROM - *.rom files

There problem is that VBIOS+UEFI ROM flash failed. I think there is enough space for both.
VBIOS is 32,8kb, UEFI 45,6kb and UEFI+VBIOS 78,3kb. It is little bit akward to choose between UEFI and normal VBIOS. If my MB get cmos cleared there is now picture to set up bios and to daily use UEFI is more comfort.

My MB is Supermicron X10SRA ( without IPMI and VGA ). There is also brother X10SRA-F that has AST2400 IPMI / VGA controller. So my bios have those modules in it.




It is better idea to replace those modules or add AST1300 as a new module to the bios to get UEFI and Legacy support?



ps. sorry about my english skills.

I suppose integrating the AST1300 bios in your mainboard bios possibly won't help for a separate PCIe graphics card from a different manufacturer.

The AST bios files do come with flashing tools. Did you try to make a backup of your cards bios with the dos- or EFI- flash program? What you get there might give you a hint which file you'll need to update. (Are you sure it's worth the effort?)

Zitat von lfb6 im Beitrag #2

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I suppose integrating the AST1300 bios in your mainboard bios possibly won't help for a separate PCIe graphics card from a different manufacturer.

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Zitat von lfb6 im Beitrag #2

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The AST bios files do come with flashing tools. Did you try to make a backup of your cards bios with the dos- or EFI- flash program? What you get there might give you a hint which file you'll need to update. (Are you sure it's worth the effort?)

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dump vBIOS with GPU-z and let me see it

I checked the download vBIOS package, and see only three possibly apply to your card in the legacy/BIOS+UEFI folder
- uefi_2300_396.rom: AST1300/2300, MCLK=396Mhz << Is this the one you used? If yes, how did it fail?
- uefi_2300_dvo.rom: AST1300/2300 + DVO, MCLK=396Mhz
- uefi_2300_ite.rom: AST1300/2300 + ITE66121, MCLK=396Mhz

The problem shouldn't be the .396/.dvo/.ite- files, they should be standard, digital out (mostly DVI), and support for an HDMI chip.

More confusing for me are the four different folders:


But when looking at the files there isn't too much difference:
It's Efi driver, Efi driver with a ('GOP-in-OROM') header (makes it look like OROM?), Orom and Orom and Efi driver combined after each other with the same 'EFI GOP-in-OROM' header before the Efi driver.
Read with drvver (version itself seems not to be right, it's from the 1.09 package, EFI driver from 1.02 was 0.24.74 and reads correctly)
UEFI => EFI GOP ASPEED - 0.08.8c
UEFI_ROM => EFI GOP-in-OROM ASPEED - 0.08.8c
VBIOS => OROM (drvver doens't give anything)
VBIOS+UEFI ROM => EFI GOP-in-OROM ASPEED - 0.08.8c

uefi_2300_396.rom works, also ASTVBIOS.396.

BUT with uefi_2300_396.rom no picture at boot with Video mode legacy,
ASTVBIOS.396, no picture at boot with Video mode UEFI.

I use mostly UEFI, but if CMOS in mobo is reseted it is automatically legacy video mode and I can't do the bios settings without picture. So I need another GPU to make bios settings ... and that is akward.

.dvo is digital output? What about .ite?

Zitat von raun0 im Beitrag #7

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.dvo is digital output? What about .ite?

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Zitat von lfb6 im Beitrag #5

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.... .396/.dvo/.ite- files, they should be standard, digital out (mostly DVI), and support for an HDMI chip. ....

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Zitat von lfb6 im Beitrag #5

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Did you try to flash the larger uefi_2300_396.rom from the folder 'VBIOS+UEFI ROM' (78kB)?

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Looking at a picture there are at least two chips that could be SPI: The two Chips with MX on it (red and green dot).
The syntax seems to be "Flash NewROMFile BackupROMFile" did you get a 'BackupRomFile' from your first flash?

Here is the original backupped vbios.

EDIT: The original bios only works with legacy mode.

BUT with uefi_2300_396.rom no picture at boot with Video mode legacy << This to me says you need to make some BIOS changes, to option rom/ boot filter settings, and change video to Legacy and UEFI Boot.
Send a copy of your BIOS too now, lets check it out. Manufacturer link is fine for now, so I can just look at the settings in general and the base default applied settings.

https://www.supermicro.com/products/moth...C600/X10SRA.cfm > Update Your BIOS. Direct link is not possible.

@Lost_N_BIOS As far as I undrestood he flashed the SPI of the separate VGA card only. If he flashes with the legacy rom (32kb) the card has picture at boot in legacy mode, If he flashes the UEFI- driver (46kB) the card has picture in UEFI mode. He couldn't flash the combined module (78kB)- SPI size?
Seems unclear to me if one could integrate the Bios of the separate VGA card in motherboard bios. The motherboard seems to have modules for AST 2400 (same bios used for another board subtype with AST2400 as BMC? on board). They might be exchanged with modules for AST1300/2300, but if this works?
(My P9D-I C222 has an AST2300 as BMC. 1 UEFI driver in CSMCORE, 1 as 'normal' efi driver, one legacy bios in CSMCORE and one legacy bios in padding...- as far as I could find. Exchanged them to a later version but never tried this bios in reality)

@raun0 Could you possibly make a picture of the card, especially the 2 chips close to the PCIe connector (just out of curiousity)?

^ You explained it just how it is! Sorry my about my english :)