12-18-2023, 08:46 PM
I've been contacting an owner of Clevo P570WM. We have two final objectives:
1. Enable PCIe 3.0 (probably not feasible with software-level mod but still appealing)
2. Support 16GB SO-DIMM DDR3 modules.
Personally I think the second goal is definitely theoretically possible because there have been official BIOS upgrades from ASUS/MSI etc. It was just Clevo who didn't do the same thing for their P570WM.
I tried to compare some of those upgrades and then removed a "report error and goto fail" ("goto fail" is confirmed in experiment) logic in Clevo P570WM's BIOS. But unfortunately this is not as simple as that. It didn't work out.
I can see debug messages/strings appearing in the disassembly/decompiled pseudo C code. However I don't know where those debug messages go.
The owner of this machine has purchased a POST code diagnostic card but unfortunately that thing didn't seem to be compatible either.
I see the old post on techinferno discussing the 16GB memory issue, the last reply was probably written by prema, which said "the project is dead because we don't have Intel's source code" but I'm still willing to have one last try.
However I think I need a working debugging measure at least.
1. Enable PCIe 3.0 (probably not feasible with software-level mod but still appealing)
2. Support 16GB SO-DIMM DDR3 modules.
Personally I think the second goal is definitely theoretically possible because there have been official BIOS upgrades from ASUS/MSI etc. It was just Clevo who didn't do the same thing for their P570WM.
I tried to compare some of those upgrades and then removed a "report error and goto fail" ("goto fail" is confirmed in experiment) logic in Clevo P570WM's BIOS. But unfortunately this is not as simple as that. It didn't work out.
I can see debug messages/strings appearing in the disassembly/decompiled pseudo C code. However I don't know where those debug messages go.
The owner of this machine has purchased a POST code diagnostic card but unfortunately that thing didn't seem to be compatible either.
I see the old post on techinferno discussing the 16GB memory issue, the last reply was probably written by prema, which said "the project is dead because we don't have Intel's source code" but I'm still willing to have one last try.
However I think I need a working debugging measure at least.