I modded the K8NS Pro Bios F4.

[Kunaak]

I modifed the bios.
didn't add anything or mess with any settings that I couldn't understand.

all I did, was either change the default voltages, or disable some of the incredible amount of junk in these gigabyte Bioses.

whats different?

1. CPU Smart Fan is OFF by default.

2. CPU Overclock is set to 201, instead of 200-to enable the AGP/PCI lock by default, instead of doing it manually.

3. VDDQ is set to +.1 by default, this is a personal preference, I have the best stability with alittle extra on this voltage.

4. VDDR is set to 2.7 volts at default, instead of 2.5 volts.
this just to help make ram overclocking a tad easier.

5. This is where the biggest changes are.

Integrated Peripherals.

My biggest complaint about this board for overclocking is a simple one-this boards got 3 kinds or raid, fire wire, sound, gadget after gadget... so much crap that it takes me about 4 reboots before I can get the bios back to a overclocking ready mode.
well...

all things in Integrated peripherials has been disabled.
only things active by default are.

LAN.
IDE DMA Transfer.
both IDE ports.

Other then that, USB, Printer ports, game and midi ports, IDE RAID, SATA RAID, Giga Raid, and whatever else, are all off by default.

anything thats "off by default" can easily be turned on in bios, just like normal.

I modded this BIOS to cut down on all the crap that you have to go through on a failed OC. the Constant entering bios, then rebooting, enter bios again, reboot, and so on... gets old real fast.
this board just will not boot, if you do things like.
disable all the stuff off in integrated peripherials, then go the adjust the Vcore, AGP, DDR, latency and then reboot.
so you got to do it in steps.
it's really annoying.

this bios stops all that and gets you right to the overclocking

ok, heres the bad part.
I can't attach the BIOS here.
no room.
the file is 375k
the max I can attach is 205k.

so I need someone to host the modded bios for others to download it.

I flashed my Own K8NS Pro here, with my modded bios, and it's working just fine, and best of all...
clear the CMOS, and the bios is streamlined from the start for overclockers

so it definatly works for me.
but like always, running a modded bios is your risk to take.
no ones responsible if something goes wrong, cause no one made you do it.
luckily, on the K8NS Pro, you got dual Bios, so you should be fine either way

the only things you have to do in bios yourself, are the CRTL F1 still for advanced timings, I couldn't figure anyway to unhide that option by default.
Cas Latency is still set to AUTO by default.
Multipliers are still set to AUTO by default.
so this bios is just a streamlined bios.
other then saving alot of time, things are pretty much untouched for the more advanced things.

[tictac]

nice

ask saaya... maybe he can help you on uploading bios space...

[tictac]

oh there is always free server if you have yahoo mail account...

geocities got 15-20mb space for upload

[Kunaak]

Ok Then, Lets Try This

Modded Bios F5

Modded F4


I think this should do the trick.

[tictac]

nice... keep on modding... i'm sure you will be addicted to it...

[FallenAngel]

@kunaak

What progs did you use for editing bios, I would like to change my P4C800-E bios, to change the voltage of memory at least to 3.0 (2.8 stock) until I received an ordered OCZ DDR booster (it takes so looong to arrive)

I'm a noob in programming, but we are in a Xtreme forum ... eheh

[Kunaak]

well so far I can tell you, theres little to no chance of editing a Asus BIOS.
I haven't found any way to open a Intel, or A64 bios from Asus yet.
Modbin won't do the job, cause they are not Bin files.

plus, you can't just change the voltages to whatever you want.
if the option isn't there in bios to unhide...
I don't think you can do anything about it to add it.
chances are, 2.8 volts is gonna be your max, no matter what.

anyways, use modbin 1.0038 and that will get you started.

[FallenAngel]

Thanks for the input, I will try it, thanks

[@sia@home]

AHA

Ive been thinking about doing this to my K8NS nonpro.

I will enable all of the *safe* options by default and turn off all the annoyances hehe

[tictac]

nice...

[@sia@home]

how safe is it to do this though? :S

[@sia@home]

...

[tictac]

Yes it is Safe.. feel free to flash your own modded bios

[mad mikee]

Yes it is Safe.. feel free to flash your own modded bios

Always have a backup

Figures that it would be right after I kill my board
/thread commandeer on
Since lots of people have come by here:

Drop-kicked my k8nspro after getting:
1. too frustated w/ exactly what kunaak fixed, among other things.
2. DFI UT
3. 3200+ 90nm and supporting stuff.

SOOOOOOO.....
How do we get a frankenbios (merge DFI UT RAM options into msi k8n neo2 ) so we can have something to play w/ until the real DFI nf3 939 comes out
Someone get Hellfire over here too now that he has the addiction. I will even play after I get these 2 up and running, just need pointers in right direction.

If some notable interest, someone start a new thread (or use the other neo2 2 thread? )
/thread commandeer off

[luisp22]

hi... i have a big prob... i think that i make a bad flash bios and now my computer dosen´t turn on , my board is a giga-byte k8ns 939 , how do i use dual bios?

[/\/\r.Abdul]

hi sorry for bringing back this old thread but will a K8NS Pro bios work on an K8NS non pro?

and for verification this is s754 right?

[1860ly]

well so far I can tell you, theres little to no chance of editing a Asus BIOS.
I haven't found any way to open a Intel, or A64 bios from Asus yet.
Modbin won't do the job, cause they are not Bin files.

plus, you can't just change the voltages to whatever you want.
if the option isn't there in bios to unhide...
I don't think you can do anything about it to add it.
chances are, 2.8 volts is gonna be your max, no matter what.

anyways, use modbin 1.0038 and that will get you started.

can you get me a link to download the modbin 1.0038?

[1860ly]

i have used the modbin 1.0038 to mod my bios ,but it can not be saved successfully~~