@Michael_Code - Yes, stock BIOS often like that, this is not what is in FD on the board though, and this has nothing to do with read/write chip allowed or not.
Dump FD directly from board with FPT (FPTw.exe -desc -d fd.bin) and you will see it's not unlocked already, unless rare mistake by Asus, or you purchased used board and someone already unlocked, or you unlocked it previously
Yes, everyone needs to preserve MAC ID, not sure what you mean about that? Maybe you don't care to loose your own MAC ID, but others would like to keep theirs

@Fernando - Thanks, good to see you have added related comment to MMTool area as well
Really, both methods need checked vs stock side by side with UEFITool for easiest user visual comparison, from top to bottom within any volume you edit, for padding added or removed in that entire volume.
This can be added or removed anywhere within the edited/rebuilt volume, not just near or at bottom. I think just this part needs more clearly explained

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #5941

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@Michael_Code - Yes, stock BIOS often like that, this is not what is in FD on the board though, and this has nothing to do with read/write chip allowed or not.
Dump FD directly from board with FPT (FPTw.exe -desc -d fd.bin) and you will see it's not unlocked already, unless rare mistake by Asus, or you purchased used board and someone already unlocked, or you unlocked it previously

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Zitat

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Yes, everyone needs to preserve MAC ID, not sure what you mean about that? Maybe you don't care to loose your own MAC ID, but others would like to keep theirs

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MAC address needs only when we have GbE region, LOM intel.

@Michael_Code - Yes, FD on board often is locked while stock may be unlocked, generally because it's never written into BIOS so does not matter and they leave unlocked
About MAC, sometimes it is stored in one or several padding areas of the BIOS, along with serial, UUID etc. And sometimes it's stored in NVRAM too, but yes, it may not be needed to be put back in those areas by you, for functionality of LAN, unless there is used GbE region
But serial, UUID, etc most users will want back into the proper places. This stuff is important to many users, but is by far the least concerning issue with your suggested flash command though, so be careful with FPT as I mentioned

@Fernando - You're welcome! Looks good, but should be DXE not DYE, just typo I know
Also, same comment should be copied to MMTool section as well

Hello all, hope you can help me. I have a Sony Vaio Pro 13 (SVP1321C5E) and i'd like to upgrade the default 256GB SSD to a new one, 1TB should be good. Unfortunately it seems every SSD PCI-E out there are NVMe nowadays and, reading a bit, looks like my mainboard doesn't support NVMe drives to straight boot OS, is that correct? I wish to do a new clean fresh installation of Win10, don't know if that matters. Otherwise seems like i need to mod and flash the BIOS, if that's the case hope you can help me doing that. Thanks

@Fernando @night_hawk - This model is NOT NVME natively. Flash programmer is required to safely reflash mod BIOS on this model - Sony Vaio Pro 13 - SVP1321C5E bios issues (3)
Unless you want to use risky AFUDOS 3.04-3.06 and /GAN - Method outlined here if you want to risk it - [Sony VAIO] BIOS modding/hacking/unlocking - Some Questions (5)

I see, so without hardware flashing I'm out of luck. Better to save-up for a new laptop then. Thanks anyway :)

@night_hawk - No, you can use AFUDOS w/ /GAN method - No need for a new laptop
And, really, flash programmer set is only $7-15 depending on how fast you want it, so even waiting on that to arrive instead, no need to buy a new laptop

@Lost_N_BIOS
Thanks for your help but, in your previous message you said that AFUDOS procedure is very risky and i can't risk to burn my pc. As for hardware flasher i never messed up with those kind of stuffs, so it would be even worse than AFUDOS procedure for me eheheh.

Dear @fernando,

I have the same BIOS as the Forum member Loud in an Acer X4610G. The latest BIOS download can be found here: h ttps://w ww.acer.c om/ac/nl/NL/content/support-product/3650?b=1 (can't link, New members need a minimum of 5 posts before posting external links). In my understanding the BIOS code is locked / signed by Acer. Would it be possible to tweak that BIOS code with your guide? (And would Windows still start, with OEM license validation?)

EDIT by Fernando: The blue marked text has been added by me after having removed the fully quoted post (to save space). This way the quoted post was dispensable.

@Lost_N_BIOS, Hello! I don't have offset as in your manual( I have ME region offset 1000h. My MB is Asus P9D WS (P9DWS.CAP) Do I need such game with offset?
Original CAP from asus site (their latest edition):


EDIT by Fernando: Inserted screenshot resized and directly attached (can be enlarged at any time by clicking onto it)

@Lost_N_BIOS I tried flash bios without extracting body from CAP file, using manual of @Fernando

Motherboard: Asus P9D WS
Intel 760p 128gb
Adapter: AMPCOM M.2 NVME to PCI Express 3.0 x4

I
- downloaded original bios p9dws.cap from asus site
- inserted mod using UEFITool (as in @Fernando instruction)
- saved new CAP file p9dwsMod.cap
- flashed bios using AI Suite 3 (follow this)
I rebooted, entered in bios and saw PATA SS
After I edited bios like this and this

I installed windows10 from usb and saw NVMe ssd
Windows started without problems.


Sorry, images were too big. EDIT by Fernando: I have shrinked them, but it is no problem to enlarge them by a click.