asus K53BE trying to modify

[mirh]

with uefitool i can find 2 menus:

- setup that have the advanced options
- asussetup that is the basic bios i see normally....

I can report the same "structure" in K53BE bios. 
And JRandomHacker guide is pretty useless in this case. 

As said, the advanced options are all in the "setup" dxe driver.. But everything reported by IFR extractor there is already enabled out of the box.
I spent like a hour in cutter to double check this, and there are no doubts.
Just after having returned from ~PlatformLastLangCodes function, the setup executable instructs a "load effective address" to the offset of the first togglable bit. And they are all 01.

I also checked ASUSSETUP but there isn't anything special to report aside of its similarity with the normal one.
You have the same ". qS_" string shortly after the "menus array".
"112,8,48,56" (from the qwords that doesn't seem to change across versions) function still calls something about locale (DEFAULT_LANGUAGE_CODE_354 here).
And all reported bits are already set.

My super educated guess would be the solution is replacing the lame OEM utility, with the ami one.. But I'm kinda afraid to [censored] up.
Isn't there anybody else having modded 2013 asus laptops?

EDIT: well, fml. AFU complains about secure flash function, winflash cannot recognize any edited bios at all, and scewin doesn't work either.

[genius239]

- setup that have the advanced options
- asussetup that is the basic bios i see normally....

I can report the same "structure" in K53BE bios. 
And JRandomHacker guide is pretty useless in this case. 

As said, the advanced options are all in the "setup" dxe driver.. But everything reported by IFR extractor there is already enabled out of the box.
I spent like a hour in cutter to double check this, and there are no doubts.
Just after having returned from ~PlatformLastLangCodes function, the setup executable instructs a "load effective address" to the offset of the first togglable bit. And they are all 01.

I also checked ASUSSETUP but there isn't anything special to report aside of its similarity with the normal one.
You have the same ". qS_" string shortly after the "menus array".
"112,8,48,56" (from the qwords that doesn't seem to change across versions) function still calls something about locale (DEFAULT_LANGUAGE_CODE_354 here).
And all reported bits are already set.

My super educated guess would be the solution is replacing the lame OEM utility, with the ami one.. But I'm kinda afraid to [censored] up.
Isn't there anybody else having modded 2013 asus laptops?

EDIT: well, fml. AFU complains about secure flash function, winflash cannot recognize any edited bios at all, and scewin doesn't work either.

Hi~~
I'm interesting with this bios modify  ,there are indeed two menu module in bios .
Could provide a dump bios ?? You can use this tool .

How to dump bios here .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0vjlwHZno

[mirh]

Hi~~
I'm interesting with this bios modify  ,there are indeed two menu module in bios .
Could provide a dump bios ?? You can use this tool .

Here you are.

[genius239]

Hi~~
I'm interesting with this bios modify  ,there are indeed two menu module in bios .
Could provide a dump bios ?? You can use this tool .

Here you are.

It seem that we have the same idea .
You insert advanced tab of ami menu to asussetup module ,does it success?? i want to know.
If it fail ,i think you can try swapping method ,there are five tab on asussetup module ,so you can try ami advanced tab to replace main tab ,stay five tab .

[mirh]

My disassembly knowledge only goes that far.
I'm not sure what to touch further.

Also, I'm not even sure how I should be going to flash bios. /GAN doesn't seem to work (at least the bios I dumped didn't seem to have any of the trivial changes I made), and other utilities just refuse to accept edited bios.

[genius239]

You can use my flash.bat to update bios .
Drag bios file over flash.bat .

Like below .
https://www.file-upload.com/uqgaygc1itpx

[genius239]

You provide dump bios seem had modified ,so you alrady flash it ,is it??

Another question ,file "K43BE-AS.212" is original bios for your laptop???

[mirh]

Yes, it's that.
And.. Yes, I guess like I had already done some half-assed attempts to flash bios before tacking that backup.
But.. did you notice any modification? The couple of bit edits I had made didn't seem to stick when I checked.

On the other hand.. if the thing with the official asus utility doesn't count, I think maybe this other attachment (I had made before trying the "hacks") might be "more" original.

Sorry for delay, but thread splitting nuked my notifications.

[genius239]

I try to made some modifications ,it based on you provided original file.
You can try them .
https://www.file-upload.com/7kp0cwvxnaya

[mirh]

Nothing changed.
But I swear that's because nothing seems to stick at all in the first place.

I tried for example to set force/384M uma frame buffer size with AMIBCP, but after flashing bios, subsequent control backup doesn't seem affected by my adjustments.
EDIT: also tested afuefi and afudos 3.05.04, to no avail