@KaoDome - Sorry, you lost me on the menu/SATA stuff, I get what you mean, but you didn't mention what file you swapped.
If you are swapping Setup from one BIOS to another, you should also swap setup NVRAM/VSS section too, otherwise settings may not match up with what is in NVRAM/Stored current values (ie this is not ideal)
If you did mean Setup, yes of course, that's what we always edit for Menu changes When I say setup, I mean FE3542FE-C1D3-4EF8-657C-8048606FF670 (DriverSampleDXE/SetupUtility)
On the logo, there is many logos in there, some not even Acer (gateway/packard), but the ones we've been changing are the only green/black acer ones (We'll sort that later, it's least important here)

Thanks for the images of the board, and CPUID/microcode version image. Please give me clear images of these chips off the back


Here, please test flash, do you now have D6 microcode instead of C6 after flash?
If yes, then BIOS is flashing in OK, as we suspected and confirmed by checking setup edit post-flash-dump, and this is what is being used, so I must have incorrect menu edit area
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...609024145558925

You may have to ask for Menu unlock over at BIOS-mods.com if I can't figure it out Dudu2002 will be able to unlock it for you first time, then I can see what I missed and why

I see! There was a setting in the menu that allowed you to change the SATA operation mode from AHCI to RST+Optane, that setting got hidden in 1.12, you now have to press Ctrl+S at the Main tab for it to appear. Because 1.11 still had it visible by default I thought "maybe if I upload both menus he's able to what they did and figure out a way why we're being unable to unlock the rest of the features."

That's what those "FE3542FE-C1D3-4EF8-657C-8048606FF670" files were, the body of DriverSampleDXE/SetupUtility per BIOS revision. But I didn't flash 1.11 and then extract it the usual way (UEFITool), instead I opened the BIOS with PhoenixTool to get just that section (same with other revisions).

With that I then proceeded to use UEFITool 0.25 to replace the body of that section in the clean dump we have with that of the 1.11 where that setting was exposed in the open and check if the modification applied. Which it did, so we're editing the right file for sure. I didn't swap NVRAM/VSS either I'm afraid, I'm just going blind, with some educated guesses but I'm learning a lot in the process :)

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For the logos, when decompressing using PhoenixTool and then using Linux's "file" utility to ID the 1000+ dumpped files, I found plenty of images, plenty. And out of those I edited the ones that showed the Acer logo for the wolf, but it didn't take. So I think the real Acer logo that's being loaded may reside in a different place or be packed differently. I'm going to try to replace all of the Acer ones with those of Gateway for example, using their original files, to see if there's any change.

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You'll find pictures of all of those chips attached to the post, although a quick search showed they were MOSFET packages "only".

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The important stuff, your mod on the microcode worked, utilities are reporting the processor running on D6 now instead; so another thing we know that works. Later on I may open an account at BIOS-mods.com and make a thread over there, see what it is we're missing and report back here if you're not over there too, or tag you over there. For completeness though, if someone were to find this thread we should post the solution here as well.

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Thank you immensely for all of your efforts!!

I knew what you meant about the SATA stuff, just not what module you were talking about, sounded like other than setup the way you mentioned things. All that is not relevant to this modification, and all I mentioned previously about what you did = true
Whether you pulled setup from dump or stock BIOS it's same/same, so that does not matter. now that I see you mentioned it was normal setup, all this is irrelevant to what we're doing, or doesn't help/matter etc.

Stop discussing/using/wasting time with Phoenixtool, it's confusing and unnecessary None of how you do this or that with this tool or that tool matters, it's all same/same, provided you do it same ways and properly.
The logos are located in the following GUID's, same as you had named files originally, use UEFITool, expand to RAW, extract body as PCX/replace body with PCX or proper JPEG (some methods will not be proper**)
**I know Save 4 Web Optimized with CS3 is, save as is not, I did not check other tools - Save as PCX with CS3 = fail on insert - this tested with Insyde tools, not UEFITool, it will insert whatever you give it
003E8000-ABAC-42F2-9C54-6EEC92013FAC_1472
00384000-ABAC-42F2-9C54-6EEC92013FAC_1470 << Both 1024-576
00473100-ABAC-42F2-9C54-6EEC92013FAC_1474 << 1152-648
0057E400-ABAC-42F2-9C54-6EEC92013FAC_1476 << 1280-720
007E9000-ABAC-42F2-9C54-6EEC92013FAC_1478 << 1536-864

Thanks for images, and looking them up, I could not tell for sure if they were mosfets or PDFN / WSON SMD Mounted BIOS chips.

Great, thanks for confirming microcode change worked! This means menu edit must be wrong. Please ask for unlocked menu at BIOS-mods.com, hopefully dudu2002 will help you quickly, then we can see what I'm missing
Yes, I will tell you what I missed, what the correct edit is etc, once you get a proper unlocked menu from Dudu2002. Then we'll sort this logo stuff out too!

* Edit - Missing close up image of this chip still

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #33

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* Edit - Missing close up image of this chip still

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