neilhart
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A follow up on ASRock-M8 BIOS issue where Chimera goes into a reboot loop with UEFI BIOS versions 1.20 and 1.60.
I fired up my Window 8 Pro 64Bit virtual machine on VMWare Fusion and used my archive copy of PMPatch and patched the Z87M81.60 BIOS file.
Now the test of character is do I risk flashing it back on the system? Will it brick it? Hummm… I have done this trick several times in the past with MSI and ASUS motherboards so I am game to try.
I am running a 1 hour thermal torture test (Prime95) that needs to complete (pass or fail) before attempting this next BIOS flashing.
Well here is the torture test doc.
I am very pleased that the high temp was only 63C.
More to follow.
Good modding,
neil
Edit - added 05/15/15 - I patched in one of my work up HDDs that has both Mavericks and Yosemite installed with Unibeast and booting with Chimera. And I attempted to flash the PMPatch'ed BIOS. The system detected that the file had been altered and would not allow the file to be loaded. So that is that for now. I will continue running with Clover for the boot loader.
neil
I fired up my Window 8 Pro 64Bit virtual machine on VMWare Fusion and used my archive copy of PMPatch and patched the Z87M81.60 BIOS file.
Now the test of character is do I risk flashing it back on the system? Will it brick it? Hummm… I have done this trick several times in the past with MSI and ASUS motherboards so I am game to try.
I am running a 1 hour thermal torture test (Prime95) that needs to complete (pass or fail) before attempting this next BIOS flashing.
Well here is the torture test doc.
I am very pleased that the high temp was only 63C.
More to follow.
Good modding,
neil
Edit - added 05/15/15 - I patched in one of my work up HDDs that has both Mavericks and Yosemite installed with Unibeast and booting with Chimera. And I attempted to flash the PMPatch'ed BIOS. The system detected that the file had been altered and would not allow the file to be loaded. So that is that for now. I will continue running with Clover for the boot loader.
neil