I've received my Alienware Aurora R4 last week but the guys from AW have decided to put the vcore at 1.4V which is ridiculously high when running at stock speeds.
Most of the offset voltage settings are available in the bios menu but they've hidden the Core Voltage setting so I can't lower it to save power and keep the system cooler.
I would be very grateful if someone could help me get this option back so I can lower the vcore setting.
The bios can be downloaded from Dell:
Alienware Aurora R4 bios A03
Thanks in advance
Hello. Can anyone help me with extracting the BIOS from this exe?
I've tried MMTools, PhoenixTools, UniExtract, CBROM, 7zip, /writeromfile, /writehdrfile and I simply cannot get the bios image out of this exe file.
How do I get the image extracted?
Once I've gotten the bios image, I will add updated microcode via UBU.
Is it also possible to get the microcode from another bios and add it to the Aurora R4 A11 bios?
I want the microcode from the Z9PE-D8 WS 5802 bios because the processor I will use works perfectly on that board with that bios (ver 5802).
P.S. The processor I will use is the E5-2687W V2 ES, labelled 'QE2T' 3.2Ghz. L2 stepping.
Aurora R4 A11 bios download:
Aurora R4 A11 bios (exe)
ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS 5802 bios download:
Z9PE-D8 WS 5802 bios (rar)
Any help is appreciated.
(01-28-2017, 02:18 AM)genius239 Wrote: [ -> ]https://mega.nz/#!74phVTqT!Y98cOvCw80bDS...zpaM6_q0GE
Bios file and microcode file
Wow. I did not expect someone to respond to quickly to my request.
Thank you very, very much! I'll let you know if things work out.
Btw, may I know how you were able to extract the bios image? I'm curious.
Hello everyone!
I'd like to enable VT-d and IOMMU on an Alienware Aurora R4. I extracted the firmware from the updater (
https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER0187328...R4_A11.exe ) using "binwalk -e".
Code:
sudo apt install binwalk
binwalk -e ./AuroraR4_A11.exe
md5sum ./_AuroraR4_A11.exe.extracted/a11.bin
Results were
Code:
ba75cf54bf7b04a994c2772f92cc2eca ./_AuroraR4_A11.exe.extracted/a11.bin
I can open a11.bin with UEFITool and MMTool 4.50.0.23. What can I modify to enable all menus? Is there a tutorial that can explain this?
Thanks for your help!
All that hassle previously to get the files from this, all you had to do is run the exe and get files from temp folder
Please zip me images of all BIOS main sections (one each of Main, Advanced, etc)
Sorry, not sure about any exact guides, I see magic String in Setup PE32 module, that may work to enable menus all by itself, or it may need AMIBCP edits on top of that. Hard to know without seeing others comments on what they've tried that failed. Surely, there is already an unlocked BIOS for this system, or at least some other thread where people discussed, attempted etc
If you just need Vt-D and IOMMU enabled, you can do that via grub using setup_var
Vt-d is in BIOS twice, but using same VarStoreInfo so I'll only add one instance below truncated to avoid confusion
One Of: Intel® VT-d, VarStoreInfo (VarOffset/VarName): 0x18D
One Of Option: Disabled, Value (8 bit): 0x0 (default) {09 0E 04 00 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
One Of Option: Enabled, Value (8 bit): 0x1 {09 0E 03 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00}
Here is general guide on using setup_var, for another purpose, but it will help you see how it works and get things going on your end
https://www.win-raid.com/t3908f16-GUIDE-Grub-Setup-Var-Guide-Fix-Intel-FPT-Error-BIOS-Lock-Bit-Set-HSFS-W-Asus-or-Other-Mod-BIOS.html
Alt boot to grub when no boot to EFI on exit page - https://www.win-raid.com/t3144f16-Help-needed-Hidden-Advanced-menu-Bios-HP-Z-J-BIN-1.html#msg58324
You will need to use the alternative link there, since the "Launch EFI Shell from filesystem device" is hidden from you in BIOS (exit page used instead of Save & exit - I assume) you can try naming to >> shellx64.efi, but I assume you will need to do as I linked above in second link
once at grub prompt, this will enable VT-d for you >> setup_var 0x18D 0x1
Sorry, IOMMU is not in this BIOS.