Asus support said it's impossible: I flashed the BIOS from Linux & got up to 5% performance back!

0:00 Introduction
18:40 Phone call w/ Asus Deutschland
30:50 Comments & Discussion

[Shmbler]

Since I was caught in the "no downgrade" trap on Intel and Compaq boards, I made myself a habit of dumping the serial flashes before upgrading to have a fallback option. That might not always work after ME upgrades and such, but so far it already saved me from unusable boards more than once. I really wish there would be board manufacturers that treat their software quality and customers differently. Just like I really wish I could get quality dishwashers that are guaranteed not to break after two years and perhaps are even servicable. But thats probably not going to happen anytime soon.

[jarilo]

This is why I only recommend MSI. You update the bios using a USB drive and can flash any version of the BIOS you want. ASUS has the dual BIOS which is nice in case something goes wrong, but the MSI will flash again even if something goes wrong since you do it manually.

[dressed_snake]

Es ist schon krass, wie große Hersteller damit durchkommen, dass die einen Tech-Suport anbieten, wo aber fast ausschließlich ahnungslose Leute sitzen. Vor Allem ist das fast überall so.
Mit der fehlenden Downgrade-Möglichkeit wollen die sich womöglich das Testen ersparen, falls es dabei doch mal zu Fehlern kommen sollte. Man darf nicht vergessen, dass auch immer mal wieder der Microcode der CPU geändert wird und das beim flashen eines älteren Bios vielleicht nicht richtig zurückgesetzt wird und es dann zu Fehlern kommen kann. Und da man auch in diesen großen Firmen die Leute, die sich damit richtig auskennen, wahrscheinlich an einer Hand abzählen kann, ist das Verhindern vom Rückflashen womöglich der einfache Ausweg gegen eine Welle an gebrickten Boards.
Ist halt ärgerlich, wenn man diese ganzen Beschränkungen hinnehmen muss und dann trotzdem noch ein instabiles Bios kriegt. Wenn die einem schon alles aus der Hand nehmen, dann sollen die es zumindest vernünftig machen.

[cybercat]

This is good info
I was previously using this hacked stack of amifldrv + afulnx / safulnx to flash roms on a bunch of AMD boards.
And also using AMIBCP + UEFITool and hex editing to firmware to enable firmware options that should have been present ootb.
I needed Above 4G decoding support on my Asus X470 C7H board
Asus wouldn't & couldn't tell me why they can't enable it.
So I decided screw it - I'll just do it myself
Lo and behold the option was there all along.

[gionibegood]

some guys managed to modify bios for few mainboards working with xeon E5-2600-V3 and go full speed for all cores, the gain was 16-20% depending on mainboard. I am interested in modifying bios for mainboards lga3647 (especially supermicro which is sloppy slow) Do you have any idea if this is possible ? ( I bought in ebay few cheap 6138 as defect, but show to be good almoast all of them)

[Vicorcivius]

All these corporations want you to purchase these products but they want to own them, You can only do what they allow you to do with them. wtf?

[dewijones]

nice video..
btw, what causes there to be dropped frames? your cpu isn't being taxed that much

[JderVIVIVI]

Wow you already find a solution! Lets hope Asus bothers to use it.

[Jeremy-suxy]

Awesome Video! Thanks. Like! Do you know how to fix asus thunderbolt expansion card? All the users who bought the card are suffering.

[mr.iot-tech]

rene we need this conversation with support translated to english

[JoneKone]

Wendel from Level 1 tech knows some Bios developers in Gigabyte i think.

[felsqualle]

Er versteht das ganz gut, ja, aber so ganz dann doch nicht. :D