[TOOL] Virtual Bios Mod without flashing

[letvinov28]

Nice, please share your findings with us, it may help to improve the VirtualBiosMod app

result, little bit later i will post how i got it.

 

[serdeliuk]

result, little bit later i will post how i got it.

Thanks, so you were able to add hidden menus without firmware modifications? I am not sure i understand what you did find.

 

[macciemacmac]

So all the hidden menu's can be unlocked? I also saw that Linux loads its own microcode. Can it also load custom code? Maybe it's possible to load every microcode it can do everything including overclocking not-overclockable CPU's. Unless they physically changed things since the first non-K chips. (you said a while ago it was possible on those old non-K chips)

 

[letvinov28]

So all the hidden menu's can be unlocked? I also saw that Linux loads its own microcode. Can it also load custom code? Maybe it's possible to load every microcode it can do everything including overclocking not-overclockable CPU's. Unless they physically changed things since the first non-K chips. (you said a while ago it was possible on those old non-K chips)

Yes and no (hidden menu's can be unlocked) i can unlock only AMI. P.S. in bios i saw microcode update menu.

 

[macciemacmac]

Can you change things in the hidden menu's? Could you share how you did it? I was able to boost my turbo frequency using XTU but I wanted to edit some things in the B.I.O.S. for example, the RAM speed. I want to use VBM because, if something goes wrong and the laptop can't boot anymore, i can just restore it by removing the CMOS battery.

 

[letvinov28]

Can you change things in the hidden menu's? Could you share how you did it? I was able to boost my turbo frequency using XTU but I wanted to edit some things in the B.I.O.S. for example, the RAM speed. I want to use VBM because, if something goes wrong and the laptop can't boot anymore, i can just restore it by removing the CMOS battery.

Yes i do! But about CMOS battary. Remove it not help for reseting some settings, only reflash! So you must have backup. If you have bios backup please upload it and give me link.

 

[macciemacmac]

Sorry I only saw this post now, you were suspended. I will upload it in my next post, I also found a way myself, I don't know if it works neither do I have a flash programmer. I thought maybe we can inject the hidden menu's inside the normal BIOS instead of trying to get the hidden menu working which is separated from the normal BIOS (that's why I didn't see any changes). Source was a stupid YT video which linked me to a blogspot, but I saw there the options that he changed. It looked very similar to our BIOS, he used the Asus ROG Strix II GL704GV. Oh and for some odd reason I can't compile VBM anymore. It doesn't "know" the UEFI things such as redraw. I did install all the necessary things. (Ubuntu Hirsute 21.04 which got mixed with Debian 11 Bullseye)

 

[macciemacmac]

Here it is, my already modified B.I.O.S. file.

Edit: see post underneath this one.

 

[macciemacmac]

Here is a better version, used Ezflash to flash the official BIOS and dumped it.

 

[serdeliuk]

this thread is about modding your bios without FLASHING the firmware......