azdave85650 wrote:


"Hello hancor, Would one of these files be applicable to my Lenovo m93p ThinkCentre? I would like to be able to boot from my Samsung 970. Most of my info is in my signature line. - Thanks

ThinkCentre M93p SFF PRO (type 10A8) - BIOS: FBKTD5A - Intel i5-4670S 3.10GHz - Patriot Burst 500GB SSD - Samsung 970 EVO Plus Series 500GB PCIe NVMe - Patriot Viper 16GB DDR3-1866 UDIMM - EVGA GeForce GT 1030 Low Profile 2GB - TFX350 PSU - Win 10 Pro"

Zitat von hancor im Beitrag #1

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azdave85650 wrote:


"Hello hancor, Would one of these files be applicable to my Lenovo m93p ThinkCentre? I would like to be able to boot from my Samsung 970. Most of my info is in my signature line. - Thanks

ThinkCentre M93p SFF PRO (type 10A8) - BIOS: FBKTD5A - Intel i5-4670S 3.10GHz - Patriot Burst 500GB SSD - Samsung 970 EVO Plus Series 500GB PCIe NVMe - Patriot Viper 16GB DDR3-1866 UDIMM - EVGA GeForce GT 1030 Low Profile 2GB - TFX350 PSU - Win 10 Pro"

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I flashed the bios from your attachment and didn't succeed, booting from the Samsung NVMe attached via a PCI adapter card. What should I select in the Bios as boot device? There is no option for selecting my NVMe.

To make the "Windows Boot Manager" show up in the bios, you need to set CSM (Compatibility Support Module) to DISABLED in the BOOT tab. Further, make sure when you are doing the initial install the GPT (GUI Partition Table) option is used. Having an MBR (Master Boot Record) and GPT mixed environment of drives won't work. Also disconnect all other drives when doing your initial install. If you have any other drives you'll need to convert them to GPT drives to see them via the UEFI/GPT environment.

Didn't it has verification to block you？Did you flash it through afu ？

my machine is ThinkCentre M93p SFF PRO (type 10A6).But I failed to flashed the bios from your attachment.I met error "error: 18 - error secure flash rom verify fail" during flash the bios rom.

@hancor x2 ^^

@Lost_N_BIOS @hancor
This mobo has flashing protect that can only be flashed the official bios.Once you flash the modded bios it would block you.

@gloobox - I doubt, I've modded this BIOS for others too (spam00r is one person I can think of that I've modded M93P for in past)
But, there is a few others too, I have in folder some were I helped recover users from bricks, swapped NVRAM, board details etc and then final fixed BIOS for those too.
Most all were done with programmer though, I can tell because I have 4MB + 8MB files from each user. EC FW must match BIOS version (if not, brick/no boot), so don't update BIOS version without first official update package so EC FW gets updated too, then dump both, compile, edit, split, program back

@Lost_N_BIOS
I think it must have something to do with bios version.
I once flashed the modded bios of M92p by AFU(/gan) and it was successfully(I forgot what bios version is).But when updated the bios to the latest one,it was failed.
Several days ago I had tried it in S30 by the same method,and it was successful too.
I think M93p and other LENOVO mobos may be successful by flashing with the old bios version.

It may have to do with BIOS version, or it may also have to do with you using AFU when you shouldn't, and then BIOS is messed up after that (FPT flash often fail after use of AFU = error 204)
When I fix BIOS for people though, I usually use the latest version, so if you are having issues it's either due to use of AFU or older versions causing some problems possibly

INFO >> AFU that allows /GAN was made for BIOS series/type BEFORE Aptio IV (Like 12+ year old BIOS) and should not be used on Aptio IV or Aptio V, yes it works sometimes, but other times bricks, and almost always causes future BIOS flashing issues when using other proper tools.

@t0m
what flash technique did you try to use to flash the modded BIOS? I have some suggestions... But I need more info.

btw, now the bios is FBKTD8A

Yes it did work in the past, but with the programmer. But also flashing with FPTW did work, but now I get errors with FPTW and AFU.

Now I'm also getting errors when trying to flash a modded bios. In my case for a Lenovo M92p now.

I made a Post in my thread here: Enabling "Headless display emulation" BIOS Option on Intel AMT Platforms. (2)

EDIT: it did work due to this Trick: There is a trick you can try, BIOS bug, to see if it's still left in your BIOS. Put the system to sleep (S3) for one minute, wake it up and try FPT again, see if you get same error (If you do, manufacturer has fixed this bug already in your BIOS)

Hi,

I'm new to the scene, modded my desktop bios (ami) a few weeks ago to support booting from NVMe drives and got it working.

Now I'm stuck here. I want to achieve the same thing on my M93p SFF (type 10A8) and I have no clue how.

I modded the original bios (from the BIOS Update [Operating System Version], the FBIMAGE.ROM file) with UEFITool to include the relevant NVMe DXE driver, I used the linux version to introduce the changes.
I can't flash it with afuwin.exe (shipped with the BIOS Update [Operating System Version]), error: "18 - Error: Secure Flash Rom Verify fail."
The latest version of UEFITool (A57 on windows) from the github repo doesn't allow any insertions to my rom (Insert after, Insert before, ... greyed out in the options dialog)

I dumped my current bios, but as stated above, I can't modify it, instead I modified the version from Lenovo directly.
I've updated my bios to that version using afuwin.exe, it doesn't complain with the vanilla FBIMAGE.ROM.

Version I downloaded: FBJYDEUSA
Current BIOS version on my system: FBKTDEAUS
Link to manufacturer's website: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/produ...nloads/ds035753

Looking forward to hearing from someone more experienced soon!

Zitat von Shebang im Beitrag #14

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Hi,
Looking forward to hearing from someone more experienced soon!

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