Flashing Bios from a different motherboard? Asus p8h61-i

Chaos666 · 1 Oct 2017 at 23:35

any experts on bios here?
I bought Asus motherboard on ebay. It's OEM board from an RM machine.
motherboard is marked as ASUS P8H61-I/RM/SI ... it works fine with me i5 2400s but when i put an Ivy bridge CPU it doesn't work because it requires newer bios.
RM education doesn't provide any new bioses for this mobo. Asus does have a bios from 2013 but when I try to flash it in EZ Flash it says integrity check failed...
that RM motherboard looks exactly the same .. its just missing a HDMI and 2 usb ports...
is it possible to force flash a bios from P8H61-I and get support for newer CPUs? or it will kill the board

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/P8H61I/

https://www.asus.com/media/global/products/nT9c3CJq6itMyvuE/ttSJKUHeJXg95OT0_500.jpg

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Chaos666 · 2 Oct 2017 at 16:38

BaroUK2 said:
Use below link to backup your current bios and upload it somewhere and post the link here, i can take a look at it and see if i can modify it by comparing both bios files from yours and Asus.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5MD_-QTnglRVzhIUUgyMjN1Nnc

let me know if it works

Chaos666 · 2 Oct 2017 at 17:10

i appreciate your help.. but could you explain to me what you did with that bios? I really don't want to brick this board

EZ Flash says "selected file is not an EFI bios"

Edit: it flashed from fat 32 formated drive but it's still showing same version...

Chaos666 · 2 Oct 2017 at 17:39

hmm ... ok... I'll see if my 3770 boots up

Chaos666 · 2 Oct 2017 at 20:26

Nope... Still no boot...

Chaos666 · 2 Oct 2017 at 20:44

Yes.. 2400s is working fine.. I loaded default bios settings and clear the CMOS with the jumper :/

Chaos666 · 2 Oct 2017 at 21:00

Fans spin up but no post.

Is it possible to modify original asus bios

Chaos666 · 2 Oct 2017 at 21:14

I can use external gpu if you think that will help

Chaos666 · 2 Oct 2017 at 21:23

I'll to that tomorrow.. I'll try booting with external gpu and check if keyboard lights are working.. I'll get back to you tomorrow it's to late today.. I need to get up early for work

P. S: I don't know if that has anything to do with the problem but motherboard doesn't post if I set ram to 1600Mhz... 1333 works fine.. As soon as I set the ram to 1600 it doesn't boot. Ram is 1866

Chaos666 · 2 Oct 2017 at 21:35

So I couldn't leave it..
No boot with external gpu as well and keyboard lights do not work

Chaos666 · 3 Oct 2017 at 09:21

I inspected the motherboard thoroughly when I bought it.. And it's working fine with that 2400s so I don't think it's a problem with the motherboard

Chaos666 · 3 Oct 2017 at 09:30

pastymuncher said:
If that doesn't work there is one other thing you could try. Asus still use removeable bios chips on their boards so although I can't see yours (it's behind the cmos battery) it should be the same as the board above. You could go on Ebay and pick up a bios chip for the P8H61-I which has been flashed to the latest bios and swap it over with your boards chip. That way if it bricks the board all you have to do is swap your own bios chip back. Cost would be less than a tenner.

Yeah... I was considering this as well. There are even listings on eBay that offer flashing the chip with selected rom but I don't really want to spend more money on it. I just bought it to do a project. Spending more money on it will be my last resort

Chaos666 · 3 Oct 2017 at 21:27

i think those pins on the inside are for testing purposes or smth. there is just 12 rows of pins in the socket on both sides :>

Chaos666 · 27 Dec 2017 at 22:12

That's a nice find mate. Let me know if your Ivybridge works

Chaos666 · 28 Dec 2017 at 11:01

what cpu you have in it right now? can you provide some screenshots and pics?
sorry to be sceptical but i don't want to kill my board as i said earlier. I need it for a project..

Chaos666 · 28 Dec 2017 at 22:31

can you check if you can set ram speed to anything other than 1333? cause i cant with the original bios.. it wont boot

edit:
i decided to try ... force flashing with afudos is not as straight forward as i hoped. but adding /X (don't check romid) solved my problem.... mobo booted with asus splash screen..but windows decided to trow an INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE after loading... not related to new bios probably cause i had that problem before.... will report after booting to windows :>

edit2: i fixed windows ... mobo works. 1600 memory still doesn't work... none of the ram settings works. i can lower or increase ram speed but its stays at 1333.. same with cpu settings ... disabling 2 cores does nothing.
i went back to rm bios and i can lower memory to 1066 or change timings etc ... so new bios is not fully compatible with our mobo

can you test that for me please?
Maybe later I will take out my i3 3225 from my server and i'll check if it works..

one more thing... i wanted to flash 0909 again using ez flash but I can't .. it still thinks its a different board apparently but it lets me flash backup bios...

Chaos666 · 30 Dec 2017 at 11:35

Can you check if you can lower ram to 1066?
Or change the timings?
Or if you can flash 0909 from EZ Flash in bios

Chaos666 · 30 Dec 2017 at 19:54

hmm that means that flashing a chip is a better solution than flashing bios with afudos .. :/
would you be able to flash your old bios chip with 0909 and send it to me by post? i'll pay of course

unless you know a better way to flash the bios

edit:
is that what you bought ?

Chaos666 · 1 Jan 2018 at 16:11

i understand... ordered it.... I let you know if it worked for me

was there any software included with the flasher?

Chaos666 · 3 Jan 2018 at 13:20

Just received the programmer...

it works