Hello,

I am new to this fourm and had a question. I have a aurora R3 running bios A06 is it possible for me to modify my bios so i can install windows 10? Thank you for your time.

Exsus

Hello to all the seemingly gentle people here, I would really like to ask for a little help.

This is one of the weirdest problems I or the techs that built my PC have ever come across, so please bare with me, while I try to explain.

The tower is this:
Aventum III PC
ASUS RAMPAGE V EXTREME 3.1
i7 5960x @ 4.62GHz
32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 3000 @ 2,750 MHz
980Ti Asus Strix w/core @ 1,319 MHz and bus @ 2,002 MHz
OS Drive an Intel 400GB 750 PCI-E SSD w/NVMe
2x1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD in Raid0
2x6TB Seagate SATA3 7200 RPM HDD in Raid0
2x4TB Western Digital SATA3 7200 RPM HDD in AHCI
2x2TB Seagate SATA3 7200 RPM HDD in AHCI
PSU 1200W Corsair AX1200i
OS Windows 7 Professional

Now here's the problem. On boot, no matter what I do, I get 1-3 BSODs, right after the Windows Splash screen as it tries to go to desktop. It then goes to the black screen with start recovery or start normal. Click start normal and it either finally boots up or repeats the same process 1 or 2 more times. I've gone through Windows Startup repair, ran memtest, ran every diagnostic and test available, went through and reinstalled or updated ALL the hardware drivers, still the same thing. It's not the Over Clock, because once it's it's started, it runs like a monster, I've even ran 4 stress tests simultaneously on it for more than 12 hours and it barely even kisses 80C for split seconds and I even tried it with default clock. What makes this BSOD even more troublesome is the fact that it leaves no event log, no memory dump, literally no sign that it even happens, so I'm assuming it's still in the early part of boot, before Windows is actually fully booted.

That's probably the weirdest thing, once I get passed the retarded BSODs on boot and it's started up, I can beat on this thing with a stick, I've even tried to intentionally crash it by encoding heavy/agressive Bluray Disc Images, with this tower redlined, with EVERYTHING in use, including a CPU stress test running in the background, copies being written to ALL 9 drives from external, a 4K vid playing, multiple browsers open with tabs auto-refreshing and it doesn't even blink. The only thing that I know crashes it, is if I'm encoding and doing a bunch of other stuff and I try rebuilding the index (on about 12 TB of data). Not that I care, since Windows indexing sux for databases that big so I use apps like Ultra Search and Everything.

What I discovered is that if one of the drive slots is pulled out it boots up perfectly fine. Now here's the specifics on that. My tower has 8 slots. The top 4 has 2 pairs of drives in Raid 0 (2 Raids) while the bottom 4 slots are AHCI. It does not matter what kind of drives, what size of drives or which slot, but at least one of the AHCI drives must be pulled out for the BSODs on boot to permanently stop. It can't be cables, because as I said, it doesn't matter which slot and all the different drives I've used have been tested, both with software and on other towers, showing they're perfectly healthy. Along with the fact that once actually booted, the drives work and test fine. The software on the PSU also says everything's fine with the PSU and even the PSU was tested in a similar setup with no problems as well as tested professionally at a PC shop. I'm being told that I may have to RMA the board, but I would really like to avoid that if possible, because the cooling system on this thing is rather huge (3 hefty radiators, a sizable reservoir, a big pump), with a custom made EK Predator waterblock that literally covers half the mobo along with all chromed brass piping.

Someone in the ROG forum said maybe I should try a "modded BIOS" to fix my drive issue, but this is so far out of my league I don't even know where to start. The most I've ever done with a BIOS, other than extensive overclocking is just install or update them. I do know that my BIOS (v. 1801) and Ctrl+I Raid configuration recognizes all the drives fine, but most of the RAID software and things like Crystal Disc sees the drives as either Intel, which they are not and/or completely different sizes than they actually are.

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #76

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I don't know what you want to do, maybe use AMI BIOS Recovery or something. Anyway, I have attached the BIOS Region only now and not the full HDR or the full SPI image (which Dell doesn't provide either way).

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I have a Dell XPS 13 9350 laptop.
Is it possible to send me the script through pm?

Thank you very much.

@plutomaniac,

I ended up setting my DVMT setting to 0x0 (0M) in my bios and now my screen doesn't turn on at all. I was hoping to try and reflash my bios to fix this..but I cannot use the /writehdrfile with the current dell bios and I was wondering if you could help me with that?

I have attached the bios EXE to this post. If you can help with that or post any suggestion on what to try doing...or if its even fixable..let me know.

https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER04143679M/1/XPS_9360_1.3.2.exe - that link should work to download the bios.

Thanks!

@plutomaniac

I have been trapped in the old horror story of mobo brick after the "recommended" windows BIOS update of my Aurora r4 (AMI BIOS aptio 4, version A11). A good occasion to learn many awesome things about BIOS! But now I am lost and I definitely need help...

I am trying to follow your promising procedure, however, I surely may have to adapt some things to fit the aurora desktop machine.

So I have followed those steps:

1) download AuroraR4_A11.exe BIOS file from the support site (10MB)
2) from this .exe file, extraction of a .bin file with 7zip (9.7MB)
3) from this .bin, extraction of a .hdr file with phoenix tools (the biggest file in the DUMP/BIOS folder) (12MB)

I have then tried to use Lordkag's extractor batch to get the .rom file from this .hdr file. But the batch closed itself when I enter "dell_hdr" command after dragging the .hdr file on it. (though I have well changed the python path in the batch code)

If I am correct, I still need the .rom file and the correct filenames for the .hdr and .rom files to complete my usb flash key?

Please...

I have a NetBook by Lenovo its bios is based on InsydeH20 but all blocked by Lenovo Interface i want to unlock the real bios or at least disable UEFI for boot easy Linux or Win7 32bit or XP.

The rar contain the update program with latest bios (.rom file will be extracted from exe with the InsydeH20 tool for flash it).

I tried to find the unlock point for advanced functions or uefi with UEFITool.exe but i dont understand where put hands.
I hope some one can help me, thanks in advance.

Hi all,

I am new to this place and BIOS modding in general... I would need your help :)

I have an MSI Z77IA-E53 board and an LSI-9271-8i RAID Card... The card is initialized just fine when slotted in the PCIe x16 slot, also when connected through a PCIe X1 riser card in both PCIe 3.0 and 2.0 modes. However, when I plug the card in the same riser, but attached to the mPCIE on the board, it would not innitialize.

I know there is no issue with the mPCIe to PCIe riser, as my LSI-9260, a couple of GPUs and a few other cards initialize and work correctly... Not sure where the problem could be and if it can be helped.

Thanks for your responses :)
Z