Thanks for looking I have found this as the un-modded bios. Got it from the MSI forums.

sorry I was too quick and posted before your edit. Now for the scarry part the flashing

Thanks

Hi ,

Is that something wrong if the window 10 partition shown GPT instead of MBR after Modded the bios ?

Thanks you

Hi,

I have an MSI Z77A-G43 motherboard and after discovering this site I've made the decision to buy an NVMe drive instead of legacy SATA hardware. I don't use a dedicated GPU, so have the necessary PCIe lanes available :)
While I wait for a PCIe adapter, CH341A programmer, SOIC8 clip, and 2.54mm to 2.0mm dupont cables (for the MSI JSPI1 header) to be delivered, I'm scouring for deals on various ~500GB SM2262 based drives.

I've played around with several versions of UEFITool and MMTool and suspect that only MMTool is capable of producing a working BIN as only it produces a contiguous HEX block after inserting NvmExpressDxe_4.ffs.
I've backed up my current BIOS (v2.4) using MSI MFlash within the click2 BIOS. The resulting file ended up being just 6MB instead of 8MB, but found that it does at least contain my NICs MAC address.
My first question for today is, is that backup enough, or should I use the CH341A or another method to pull a full 8MB backup?
When working with MMTool, I used the latest version of my boards BIOS (v2.13, Released 2014-05-01). Seeing how this is such an old release, I'm wondering if I should also be modding in a newer ME??? I really don't know much about the subject.
Since I'm looking to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10, perhaps I should be using Clover instead of even thinking of touching the flash, however I'm used to using GRUB2 and figured I would just go ahead and mod the BIOS in order to stick with it.

Cheers!

Im working on a M5A99FX PRO R2.0, using the newest bios available. When I try to flash my moded bios I get a security verification check fail. Any way to get around that?.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #4534

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@skyblaster:
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!

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Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #4534

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Why haven't you inserted the NVMe module into the latest official BIOS v2.13 dated 05/01/2014 by using the MMTool v4.5? I just have done it and the result was fine.

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Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #4534

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According to the MSI MB user's feedback you should be able to flash the modded MSI BIOS (after having renamed it to the original file name) by using the default flashing tool.
Once you have successfully flashed the modded BIOS, you can take care about the Intel Management Engine driver and Firmware. Both updates can be done from within a running Windows OS (no need to flash a new BIOS).

Good luck!
Dieter (alias Fernando)

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Hallo @Fernando / Dieter

I am happy to have the chance to touch with you before you completely retire from here.

Your method, instructions and idea and a bit from others here around influenced passed my ultrabook also a boost, so thats why I joined and wanted thank you. Seems like I posted by mistake the other, rather dead thread for commenting/upgrading - [Sony VAIO] BIOS modding/hacking/unlocking - Some Questions (5)

One question remained for me that modding bios this way only boots from a windows OS. For this I in the end just copied Grub files under microsoft esi boot folder and replaced the files, details mentioned in the given post.

Maybe some comments of mine would also help others

Cheers

Hi folks,

Since this board and forum brought me wonders and helped me alot, it is my turn to at least thank by joining here and share my experience and comments as well. I will try to keep it short.

First of all I would like to confirm the methods described here, especially from @pcfist worked for me (more or less, with some thoughts/searchs though), in the end!

Background: Having Sony Vaio Pro 13, AMI BIOS, i5, had M.2 NGFF SSD with about 2 hecto GBs

Problem was: Bought a new 1 TB PCIe NVMe SSD (which fits perfectly to the slot), cloned entire disk from previous SSD to the new one BUT Windows did not boot. Tried to install several OSs and Windows again and again, (following many instructions out there) with many GPT/UEFI tools and options and commands, BCDEdit, diskpart blablabla and retries blablabla, I realized that the only problem must be that the new SSD cannot be booted from at all, is not able respectively. It was recognized though when booted from an USB stick, and I could later manage though booting indirectly from SSD via USB DUET REFIND method ( [Guide] NVMe-boot for systems with legacy BIOS and older-UEFI (DUET-REFIND) )

until I found this thread and @pcfist hints that motivated me either as it did him originally as well!


Long story short - and here is my comment to - what I did through pcfist - for new readers with my update:
Comment: The whole process could take you either about 20min if you use after step 2 AFUWIN in console for directly flashing the modded BIOS image back - hadn't tried that unfortunately - wasn't really aware of it! -
or else otherwise you can plan about an hour (because you need to read howto and download/create a bootable DOS (e.g. FreeDOS) where you copy AFUDOS and run it from there - do not forget to change to BIOS Legacy mode in this case for booting when you are there)

1. Read BIOS image from flash using AFUWINGUI, save it to ROM file.
Comment: Maybe the site has changed in the meantime, I couldn't find that (thats why I first got unsure with all), but searched and tried then further, and I found that finally worked: https://ami.com/en/?Aptio_4_AMI_Firmware_Update_Utility.zip
Extract it, and inside the folders choose your OS, and extract it again. There is AFUWINGUI (x64) you can run it, read the BIOS mapped image with it and save it as a ROM or BIN file (~8 MB). (Under Linux you can also use the program pawn from github.)
After modifying the BIOS Image in the next step, you could probably use AFUWIN which is placed in the same folder to afuwingui to flash the BIOS then you are DONE.

2. Modify the image with MMTool following this guide. I added the first version of NVMExpressDXE.ffs (uncompressed one) that the author recommends using, And save it.
Comment: I also did like this - OK (guide link: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS )

Skip the next step if you can manage AFUWIN with right parameters, just open it and you can see the parameter options, there you could flash the modded BIOS.

3. Flash it with AFUDOS 3.04. (Don't be confused with that Supermicro website—the archive with Supermicro BIOS image contains the required version of AFUDOS). I used the following command:
Comment: Here it was also simple said, especially by saying "save it and flash it".
Currently you can follow either the link above from @yippie simply or the link: https://www.supermicro.com/products/moth...87/X10SLQ-L.cfm to go to "Update your BIOS" and download the zip file X10SLQ8_518.zip
Download&create a bootable DOS USB/DISC (like FreeDOS) (since that AFUDOS can not run under Windows because not compatible) AND extract/copy your files, both rom and afudos files, into the new media (main folder or create your own)
Now when booted in Legacy mode (because UEFI would not be supported with such an OS) with that USB, type using your filename:

afudos nvme.rom /P /GAN

//Comment: it did not work on mine with /P, but worked without /P
//after done, you normally don't need to set back to UEFI mode in BIOS because in the flashed rom it was set already from previous image. so just restart your PC hopefully with your NVMe SSD!


For me, in the end all worked, and amazed me seeing how the ultrabook boo(s)ts completely by itself, and without using any USB!


I have two questions coming on my mind, maybe someone could answer:

1. I believe on the modded BIOS it is set to boot only from Windows - is that correct?
Because whatever Linux, and tools I use, like GRUB or Grub2Win or REFIND, even from linux, whatever Boot configuration/bootmanager I use, it always boots directly from Windows 10. Anyone a clue or suggestion? (When I use from Duet Refind USB I can choose any OS to load)
//EDIT: Seems like to be correct. I then tricked it by booting from Linux first, made a backup of MS boot esi folders/files, and copied Grub file (oyou can use your favorite bootmanager) to the MS Folder ESI/Microsoft/Boot according this: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=243338 you basically just need to replace bootmgfw.efi from esi microsoft boot folder (the author forgot to mention + boot folder) with grubx64.efi (if you want to use Grub for example), and modify the grub config file with the new path for windows backup folder in order to be able to boot from windows as well. You need Secure Boot off.
So I now can choose between different OSes when booting.

2. I don't know, whether this bios mod method was only for UEFI/GPT boot support or generally for both BIOS/MBR and UEFI/GPT on NVMe SSDs - would it supported if one just used MBR OS in Legacy mode (I know nobody would need that anymore, but would worth to know)?

Hello there,
Can you prepare the NVMe mode for MSI Z87 G45 Gaming motherboard ??