Acer Laptop with Phoenix BIOS: BIOS MOD Request

[MZWiZard]

Oh I'm sorry Kizwan, I never saw that PM! I'll be on it right away!

[MZWiZard]

Well:

Manufacturing date is 080829

I believe I already was on bios 1.36 - but not sure.

I dont know if its TrustedCore or SecureCore? How can I find that?

[kizwan]

Well:

Manufacturing date is 080829

I believe I already was on bios 1.36 - but not sure.

I dont know if its TrustedCore or SecureCore? How can I find that?

Yours is SecureCore. This doesn't matter because I have modded Phoenix SecureCore BIOS before (e.g. Aspire 5738G) & confirmed BIOS flash success by user. So it is not the cause of the BIOS flash problem.

Still searching other methods.

[kizwan]

Well:

Manufacturing date is 080829

I believe I already was on bios 1.36 - but not sure.

I dont know if its TrustedCore or SecureCore? How can I find that?

I know this is a long shot but try put the modified BIOS image to CRISIS disk & try again. Make sure to rename it to BIOS.WPH. Also make sure use latest phlash16.exe. Also make sure battery & power cord is plugged in. Let it run for 20 minutes just to be sure. After that unplug power cord & battery. After one minute or less plug power cord & see if it boot normally or not.

EDIT: I just want to know, when you tried the CRISIS disk before, did you plugged in both battery & power cord? I just think about this because on normal BIOS flash process, the process will abort if power cord is not plugged in. I think it also check battery in this case. Wouldn't hurt to try right?

EDIT: BTW, on a side note, DO NOT try "phlash16 /BBL" because it will overwrite boot block & we don't want that.

[Jansilent]

Re: pci Bridge, I have tried all of the iopcifamily/pcmciafamily combinations (including the newly reversed one for 10.6.x), but they all flush stability down the toilet (seems to conflict w sata, will never boot to desktop). Also, I've noticed others have no problems with these, but the 6930g just can't handle it. Also, with this bios and some editing, I can confirm that qe/ci, native speedstep, and sleep all work, now to hit the magic pcie setting

[kizwan]

Re: pci Bridge, I have tried all of the iopcifamily/pcmciafamily combinations (including the newly reversed one for 10.6.x), but they all flush stability down the toilet (seems to conflict w sata, will never boot to desktop). Also, I've noticed others have no problems with these, but the 6930g just can't handle it. Also, with this bios and some editing, I can confirm that qe/ci, native speedstep, and sleep all work, now to hit the magic pcie setting

I don't think your graphic card doesn't work earlier because of pci bridge issue. I'm confident it will work with DSDT injection or GraphicsEnabler=Yes boot flag.

Well, it doesn't matter now because you able to get QE/CI to work. I hope you share your setup/finding at insanelymac. It will help a lot of people.

[Jansilent]

Kizwan: I am already sharing it on projectosx, but will make a post on insanely in a bit QE/CI has been working since the EVGA nvidia drivers came out (10.5.7, I believe), and I've had it working since roughly last summer. I'm _stuck_ trying to get the pci bridge to work, been trying all of the combinations of ASPM under the ICH settings of your 6930g bios, no luck yet...
Here's the post on projectosx, I've worked with slice, netkas, nawcom, prasys and a few others, and we're all pretty stumped (although a few others have gotten the 59xx series to work). Thanks for the BIOS kizwan, you've certainly gotten the farthest out of all of the bios modders/Acer when it comes to this issue (I have been in contact with Acer since last June regarding this issue, and they don't care, even though I spent over $2500 on these hunks of plastic to run FreeBSD (they even broke Linux pci bridge support in the BIOS a couple revisions back) and have _no_ desire to run Windows _ever_ again (15+ years clean ).

[kizwan]

Kizwan: I am already sharing it on projectosx, but will make a post on insanely in a bit QE/CI has been working since the EVGA nvidia drivers came out (10.5.7, I believe), and I've had it working since roughly last summer. I'm _stuck_ trying to get the pci bridge to work, been trying all of the combinations of ASPM under the ICH settings of your 6930g bios, no luck yet...
Here's the post on projectosx, I've worked with slice, netkas, nawcom, prasys and a few others, and we're all pretty stumped (although a few others have gotten the 59xx series to work). Thanks for the BIOS kizwan, you've certainly gotten the farthest out of all of the bios modders/Acer when it comes to this issue (I have been in contact with Acer since last June regarding this issue, and they don't care, even though I spent over $2500 on these hunks of plastic to run FreeBSD (they even broke Linux pci bridge support in the BIOS a couple revisions back) and have _no_ desire to run Windows _ever_ again (15+ years clean ).

Good job! I feels that you need to know that BIOS mod for 6930g was done by Darkening & lloco73. I'm appreciated what you said.

[Espionage724]

Kizwan: I am already sharing it on projectosx, but will make a post on insanely in a bit QE/CI has been working since the EVGA nvidia drivers came out (10.5.7, I believe), and I've had it working since roughly last summer. I'm _stuck_ trying to get the pci bridge to work, been trying all of the combinations of ASPM under the ICH settings of your 6930g bios, no luck yet...
Here's the post on projectosx, I've worked with slice, netkas, nawcom, prasys and a few others, and we're all pretty stumped (although a few others have gotten the 59xx series to work). Thanks for the BIOS kizwan, you've certainly gotten the farthest out of all of the bios modders/Acer when it comes to this issue (I have been in contact with Acer since last June regarding this issue, and they don't care, even though I spent over $2500 on these hunks of plastic to run FreeBSD (they even broke Linux pci bridge support in the BIOS a couple revisions back) and have _no_ desire to run Windows _ever_ again (15+ years clean ).

I wish I could be 100% Windows Free... but it's the games that get me :/

If I had better Hardware that had better support for Linux, then I would on board for Ubuntu

[Espionage724]

Also when it was mentioned that the DSDT could be used to change voltage, does that mean you know how to do such?