Gigabyte GA-MF3 CPU upgrade mod

[1234s282]

Yes , we can try a microcode upgrade if you find a similar chipset board which contains the cpu support!

Admin

[h3llr3is3r]

Yes , we can try a microcode upgrade if you find a similar chipset board which contains the cpu support!

Admin

My bad that now i`m on a cloud...
I mean maybe i can find something like gf9400 gf8300 gf8200 gf6150 which one can be the best for microcode upgrade because wizzard says award bios is a tricky one.

if its a serious problem can you give me some tools and i try to make myself.

Thank You

[TheWiz]

CPU upgrading doesn't really have tools besides CBROM and a feel for the BIOS. Really though, i don't think this will be able to boot a different core type, but Ill compile something and see what we get. First though, you have to find an nf3 board with an award bios that supports it.

TheWiz

[h3llr3is3r]

Hello,
i find a zotac motherboard with gf8200 chipset which supports most of the new cpu`s and uses award bios.

is it possible to try with this (i mean if i not fail the gf8200 not too far from nf3 chip except the vga part).
I hope the system not trick me and i not will be able to upload the bios here.
http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-gf8200-a-e...board.html
here is the webpage.
There is a gf6100 with some phenom support on im interested also but the difference against nf3 is same like huge, if i not fail i remember that big changes coming after nf3 chip because of the cpu socket change and multi gpu support.

Me
P.S.: http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-gf6100-e-e...board.html
i try but the system not upload the bioses now from my machine...

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Hi
i checked the bioses with cbrom:
interesting things on gigabyte bios:

******** mf3.f3f BIOS component ********

No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
================================================================================
0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K)138C1h(78.19K)tt.BIN
1. XGROUP CODE 0E7B0h(57.92K)0A071h(40.11K)awardext.rom
2. CPU micro code 02000h(8.00K)003EFh(0.98K)CPUCODE.BIN
3. ACPI table 04451h(17.08K)01894h(6.14K)ACPITBL.BIN
4. EPA LOGO 0168Ch(5.64K)002AAh(0.67K)AwardBmp.bmp
5. GROUP ROM[18] 013F0h(4.98K)00F5Ch(3.84K)ggroup.bin
6. YGROUP ROM 072D0h(28.70K)04AE6h(18.72K)awardeyt.rom
7. GROUP ROM[ 0] 051F0h(20.48K)023B1h(8.92K)_EN_CODE.BIN
8. OEM1 CODE 0BE50h(47.58K)00985h(2.38K)BSMICODE.ROM
9. PCI ROM[A] 0C000h(48.00K)06A48h(26.57K)NVRAID.ROM
10. PCI ROM[B] 0D800h(54.00K)070F8h(28.24K)NVPXE217.513
11. OEM0 CODE 028ABh(10.17K)01E1Bh(7.53K)SBF.BIN
12. GV3 03FB6h(15.93K)0108Ch(4.14K)AGESACPU.ROM
(SP) NCPUCODE 003EFh(0.98K)003EFh(0.98K)NCPUCODE.BIN

Total compress code space = 59000h(356.00K)
Total compressed code size = 38DCDh(227.45K)
Remain compress code space = 20253h(128.58K)
and on zotac gf8200 bios:

******** zotac_8200.bin BIOS component ********

No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
================================================================================
0. System BIOS 20000h(128.00K)12D25h(75.29K)AD4PR941.BIN
1. XGROUP CODE 0C6C0h(49.69K)08A1Ch(34.53K)awardext.rom
2. ACPI table 0A16Bh(40.35K)03DE8h(15.48K)ACPITBL.BIN
3. EPA LOGO 0168Ch(5.64K)002AAh(0.67K)AwardBmp.bmp
4. YGROUP ROM 0D190h(52.39K)06817h(26.02K)awardeyt.rom
5. GROUP ROM[ 0] 05110h(20.27K)02491h(9.14K)_EN_CODE.BIN
6. SETUP0 01890h(6.14K)00A8Ah(2.63K)_ITEM.BIN
7. BIOSF0 02360h(8.84K)014D7h(5.21K)_DMI.BIN
8. FLSH CODE 02450h(9.08K)00DFAh(3.49K)SPIFLASH.BIN
9. SMI32 00010h(0.02K)00038h(0.05K)SMI32COD.BIN
10. SMIAP 087B0h(33.92K)0042Bh(1.04K)SMIAPCOD.BIN
11. HTINIT 05011h(20.02K)05039h(20.06K)HT.DLL
12. 2 PE32 in MB 0047Dh(1.12K)0050Ch(1.26K)HT32GATE.BIN
13. MINIT 0E6EFh(57.73K)0E722h(57.78K)MEMINIT.BIN
14. OEM0 CODE 0D1B0h(52.42K)0088Ch(2.14K)BSMICODE.ROM
15. PCI ROM[A] 0F000h(60.00K)07CB7h(31.18K)NVPXES.NIC
16. PCI ROM[B] 0DE00h(55.50K)088C4h(34.19K)NV_RPT.ROM
17. PCI ROM[C] 04000h(16.00K)028C2h(10.19K)AHCI_NV.BIN
18. VGA ROM[1] 0E000h(56.00K)09F84h(39.88K)m78s_617.rom
19. GV3 08B18h(34.77K)02E3Ah(11.56K)AGESACPU.ROM
20. JPEG ENGINE 04195h(16.40K)041B9h(16.43K)JPEG.ROM
21. LOGO BitMap 7560Ch(469.51K)337F0h(205.98K)ZOTAC.BMP
(SP) NCPUCODE 06800h(26.00K)06800h(26.00K)NCPUCODE.BIN

Total compress code space = D3000h(844.00K)
Total compressed code size = 9D8F0h(630.23K)
Remain compress code space = 35730h(213.80K)
For me looks like we can use the zotacs agesa cpu codes and ncpucodes but still is on in gygabytes one we have a cpu microcode part what i not see on zotac ones.

Any help on this?

[h3llr3is3r]

I need to change anything else then the AGESA module?

[TheWiz]

Oh this is most interesting. The Zotac is a great candidate but it uses MEMINIT,s o if we rip the AGESA from the zotac then it would look for MEMINIT and most likely corrupt (not sure)

as for the gigabyte it does use the traditional AGESA/Microcode so we may have more luck using that.

I think I will try compiling something from this soon.

TheWiz

[h3llr3is3r]

I think i can do the job alone but u have right the zotac ones is more tricky...
Hard is this things, but i look forward to make this things before 1st of july

Thank Your help

[h3llr3is3r]

I checked for a new Gygabyte candidate, i found one with phenom II x6 support also, but near the AGESA i find the meminit module also.
Please check it maybe we can use it like starting point, anyway im interested to learn a bit from this modding so can u help me?

[h3llr3is3r]

Hey,
it looks like i made a great pass forward, i succesfully cuted out the NCPUCODE.BIN form the M52 motherboard bios. I think with this we can
make any other system bios (award only) the recognize the newest CPUs from AMD.

I put it here.
Im looking forward to your help.

[1234s282]

Heres the bios with updated microcode posted above.

Try at your own risk!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/747181/Gigabyte%...34s282.zip

Best of luck!

Regards
Admin