Yo i've been into tweaking for a long time now OS side and as i'm getting deeper into the tweaking scene im seeing people with modded bioses who have allot of different c state options and such.
Since i'm a freak when it comes to tweaking and i have a bit of ocd, i would really love to have my bios fully unlocked. I have a friend who knows allot but is too busy to work on my bios. AMIBCP did not work with my board,
so i'm here to ask for help :). If ur gonna mod my bios, i would love for it to be fully unlocked. I can talk to a guy about what to set later.
MY BIOS: http://www.mediafire.com/file/9z993jh2fz...IGINAL.rom/file

It's not a virus. If i am supposed to post it in a different way i will edit this. Riot

Also something i want to add is that my bios is loaded with horrible microcode. Basically it's patched with spectre and meltdown patches.

@riotatetacos - Please tell me how you made the above file? Does your board have USB Flashback or not? If it does, I will use stock BIOS, unless you want me to use your current BIOS (if so, I will walk you through FPT usage and have you dump BIOS region)

About your microcode comment, do you mean your BIOS is updated with latest microcodes? If yes, are you also asking for older ones instead? If yes, I need to know your CPU model

I also need to see one image of each main page of your BIOS, you can use F12 to screenshot to USB, then zuip for me.
I need to see root level of each only, at top of each ones page. So on each of Main, Advanced, Boot, Security, Save And exit etc.
Also, since you are interested in C- States, please show me all currently visible to you settings at >> Advanced >> CPU Config >> CPU - Power Management Control (If you can see this deep into Advanced).
Scroll up/down if needed, so I can see everything you can see in that section now.

Also, please confirm this is your motherboard since you did not give full model name anywhere - And please tell me the BIOS version you are using (I'm grabbing latest 1401 now to check it out)
ROG STRIX Z390-F GAMING - https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG...-Z390-F-GAMING/

I made the file with Universal BIOS Backup ToolKit 2.0. And i'm not sure about the usb flashback feature. I would just like u to use my current bios. This is the bios i just got with my ASUS ROG STRIX z390-F. Yes the motherboard is updated with the latest microcodes as far as i know. Atleast im 100% sure that its protected with spectre and meltdown patches. Not sure about zombieload and if thats even being microcode patched yet. My cpu is a 9700k. I will go and take pictures of my bios right now and post them here. My bios version is AMI 0905 4/10/2019

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Aight ill post the pictures here. The monitoring section is blurry but you get the idea i think

http://www.mediafire.com/file/epb6mvwhcf6q5c5/BIOS.7z/file heres pictures of my bios.

Also i wanna add i can only see 1 c state. I realised u asked for all the settings i have there now. Ill post another picture http://www.mediafire.com/file/ddke67mmwj..._CONFIG.7z/file heres my cpu config settings in my bios.

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The reason why its taken with my phone is because i couldnt take screenshots with an ntfs usb... So ye but i got the pictures

Thanks to whoever edited it for me. I was gone for a few hours and was worried if my posts would get taken down :)

Please edit your posts if you need to add more info/questions and no one has replied yet. Thanks

BIOS 905 does not have all the latest security fixes for spectre/meltdown, for that you should use latest BIOS 1401 if you are concerned with those things.

Your board does not have USB Flashback, so this is my preferred way for you to flash mod BIOS, please do as below and then wait (This will keep you on BIOS 905, and keep any saved profiles you have)

I made a picture of it with my phone which wasnt blurry as in the cpu config picture
Ill make a fat 32 usb and redo the pictures

Ok this are the pictures you need

http://www.mediafire.com/file/uoobjmrlzu...IOSPICS.7z/file

And this is cpu configuration.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ddke67mmwj..._CONFIG.7z/file

After ive dumped the fpt whats next?
I found my me version

Alright i found out i got the v12.0.22.1310 ME FW. So i downloaded the v12 r19 from C.2

So when i typed in
FPTw.exe -bios -d biosreg.bin

I got an error saying this:

'FPTw.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

And when when u mod my bios i would like to have all of the microcode patches removed and everything unlocked. Cause microcodes cause higher temps

Maybe i can try doing it in dos?

I found that in DOS i got a "Bad command or file name" error. I have no idea what i'm doing wrong

Also i dont need to keep any profiles or settings so if its easier to start over we can happily do that. I remember what i need to set. :)

So i wont need to clean the ME firmware

You cannot run a board without CPU microcodes (usually), it will fail to boot. And one microcode over another, or none, is not really going to affect your temps anyway.
Since you do not have flash programmer, no, I can't send you BIOS without microcodes because if it bricks the board you wont be able to recover

I am on limited internet, what is "CPU Config" file? If this is just another image, please put all images into one zipped package, thanks

Please show me image of what you are trying to do in windows when you try to run FPT, sounds like you are not using CMD properly and or are not at the correct location in CMD window where the FPTw.exe file is located (follow what I mentioned exactly and you'll get it)

Clean or Update ME FW has nothing to do with BIOS settings or BIOS profiles, so not sure what your last two comments are about? Additionally, nothing we're doing above has anything to do with ME cleaning, updating etc.

Ok so i misunderstood the prosegure. I will give you one zipped file with all the pictures you asked for so its easier for you. Sorry for that. I understand that you are limited on internet so i will not send different zips and just do one instead.

So i the microcode thing, we can scratch out of the way. That is fine. The most important thing is to just get all the settings unlocked. Basically i found that it wasnt running cmd as admin, but when it did run as admin i got an access denied and an error on the screen. (its in the picture i sent).

I will edit this when i will send the link.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/bqr2q71fzw...ked_for.7z/file Heres the pictures you asked for. Sorry for being bad at this lmao.

I just realised i did it in the win64 folder the whole time. Ill try to do it in the win32 folder right now.

Ye ill just do it in dos. Im missing allot of dll files and i cba downloading all of them

In dos it said that "The program cant be ran in dos"

I will install windows 10 for now so i dont have to install all the files separately. This is kind of tidedous ngl. But thats fine im powering through it.

Aight i did it! it worked in windows 10. What now?

This is how it went: I did the FPTw.exe -bios -d biosreg.bin command and it worked, then i made the PTw.exe -bios -f biosreg.bin command and it asked me to overwrite a biosreg.bin file and i hit y. then it said successful. what now.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/p93t36crlw7batk/BIOS.7z/file This is the bios file it gave me. Here it is! :)

Please slow down! I thank you for all the images at once, but please redo, once you have done all things correctly

FPT DOS, you have to copy all the files from the DOS folder to your bootable USB, not from the win/win32 folder
But, anyway, you can do in windows as I mentioned. You just have got in hurry it seems, so you need to toss all you have, slow down, and do it again properly and carefully. You must be careful with FPT or you can brick your BIOS in a single click!

Please re-read the FPT spoiler above, and do exactly and only that, then give me all images (including the error image, or you can tell me error # here, image not necessarily needed unless you are not putting in command properly)
Your last comment about usage of FPT with the -f command could not have happened that way (-f means flash file) and you explained some (Save/create operation, since you mentioned overwrite your file that was already in folder)

So, to avoid any confusion, please toss all the FPT files and images and redo that as instructed above and stop once you get the FPT error on write procedure so I can then show you how to disable whatever lock stops it and gives you the error.

Yes, sorry, this may be tedious, but it's best to do carefully and properly, so you don't end up bricking your board. And I'm sorry to let you know, more tedious stuff will be coming your way, to unlock the lock stopping you from writing BIOS back, but it's what we have to do.
Don't worry I've made an in-depth guide w/ images and steps explained etc for the next procedure, so hopefully it wont be so bad for you

Ok. I'll slow down xd. I'll do it in DOS. Then ill send you all the pictures organized.

First i tried in dos with the files from the "DOS" folder, that gave me a "Bad file or command name" error.

Then i thought since i was able to do it b4, i was gonna be able to do it in the OS again. Well that gave me this error

http://www.mediafire.com/file/h9biys92vg...picture.7z/file

And these are the pictures of my bios

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jfx8sgxvtt...ked_for.7z/file

:)

DOS is not required or suggested, unless you can't figure out how to do in windows. Bad command or file name means you are not doing something correct (ie command is wrong, or directory you are in does not contain files you used in command).
I'd have to see the screen before I could tell you for sure (if you do this, run dir /w before, so I can see USB Contents too

Is your ME FW version 12? If yes, do you have Intel ME Drivers installed? Those errors are VERY unusual (ie I've never seen that before after having helped 1000's of users). This is not kind of error you should have been getting, that I previouly mentioned we'd work around
Are you using an edited BIOS now? Something seems not correct. Please reflash stock BIOS from Asus using EZ flash, then redo the FPT stuff from windows again.

Thanks for the BIOS images, missing rest of Ai Tweaker. And on CPU Config, you have C-States disabled??? Please enable, so I can see all visible to you options. Surprised to see that disabled, since you are requesting use of more c-state options???

Im asking for more c states to disable :) Also i dont see intel management interface in device manager. I disable all of this shit in bios. Cant u just download the 0905 bios from the website and unlock it? wont that work. And im on me version 12 yes. me fw 12.0.22.1310 on there it says. 12.0.something.1433. i couldnt find one for my version. So maybe its better to download the bios from the website. Since i dont care about my own bios rn. I can redo everything.

People with unlocked bioses can disable multiple c states and disable them all and get insane results.

This is NOT a modded bios btw.

I bet that its because its the wrong version cause im using a different v12 than what it says in the cmd windows as in the picture with the error. As mentioned before.

You already disabled all C-States with that one setting, so adding more to be visible to you under there is a moot point. We can do it of course, but there is no reason to since you disable the main controlling setting for C-States anyway
You can't "Disable" ME in BIOS settings, however you can enable ME Reflash in BIOS if you used special methods (it's not a visible BIOS setting, and is only meant to be a temp setting to allow ME reflash via FPT).
It sounds like you have not installed Intel ME Drivers, either do that, or carry on in DOS where ME drivers are not required.

Where do you see ME FW 12, what app are you seeing that in, and where, show me? Yes, I can edit stock BIOS, but that wont help you flash it FPT is only way you can flash mod BIOS, so we are here

Back to C-States, if you enable that setting you can disable individual ones too, same as everyone else. The setting you disabled already, disabled all at once.
But yes, sometimes there may be a few individual C States hidden from you, which would be disabled once you disable main anyway. Set C-States to enabled, and then show me all you can see in BIOS, then I;ll know which you need visible still.
I didn't ask this above because you disabled, so I wasn't sure of your goal at that point.

V12 FPT version does not matter, main version is all that matters here (V12 System Tools package, for any V12.xxxx ME FW)

Show me an image of your DOS USB Stick contents (all should be in root, nothing in folders)
Then show me dir /w in DOS, followed by your attempt to dump BIOS region in DOS (FPT.exe -bios -d biosreg.bin)

Anyways i have a friend who knows allot about bios settings so thats why i need it fully unlocked. I dont have chipset drivers installed because i have never needed them. But i can install them and see what happens.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tg5fn11le4...picture.7z/file This what i have on the usb. Everything is in root as u can see. The locale folder is from Rufus. Do i have to do dir /w before i do the command? I just realised i did FPTw.exe instead of FPT.exe. That was the issue. Ill do it in dos. Now we shouldnt have any issues. This is embarrasing for me im sorry for wasting time man. You are very nice. I will redo it now and send u if i have any errors. I have been wrong this whole time. I appreciate your help so much you dont even know. :)

Alright! So now we are on the same page! I found out i did make the wrong command before. This is my bad and i appreciate that you are so patient with me. Ok so the Memory dump worked out perfect. The command was FPT.exe -bios -d biosreg.bin. Success. The second command called FPT.exe -bios -f biosreg.bin Did not work. Here is the picture showing the error. Seems like bios protection getting in the way.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/6...7887/image0.jpg

Sorry for short reply, only have one second and have to run. Yes, protection error is expected, nice you got it working (I haven't checked image yet)
Anyway, tonight I will show you how to disable protection, then we move forward. Please wait

It's OK, don't worry, I am very patient person

Be back tonight!

Ill be on basically the whole night man! Up until 4 or 5 am. I like taking advantage of holidays xd. I will frequently check this forum and short answeres are fine bro. Also im eu region and i think you are NA right? Ye most people from eu dont have as good of english as you XD. Anyways if you are on in the next 6 or so hours ill be on. If not im gonna be on 6 am eastern time. Which is about 12 for me. We can talk then.

Aight i see were both on right now :)