Hi All,
One of my clients has a Gateway GT5056 with a Foxconn C51GU01 mobo. He has a requirement to have his machine go into standby. He also needs to have wake up on lan and wake up on ring capabilities. The WOL was not problem. I just enabled the feature in the bios and it worked. The WOR was another story. I could not get the machine to WOR when a Fax came in.
I researched this problem and found that the Award bios should contain a setting for WOR. I determined that Gateway bios engineers had hidden the setting in the bios and had it set to disabled by default. I am not to bothered that they disable the CPU and memory frequency settings but why would they disable WOR. I called Gateway and they were no help at all. The machine is out of warranty and they wanted 39 bucks to speak to a support technician that probably does not even no what WOR is.
I stumbled on a post in this forum http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30405
This post discusses cross flashing the C51GU01 with Foxconns 6100K8MA-RS bios.
I was tempted but folks were having problems when doing this. So I decided to try and unlock WOR and all the other settings Gateway has hidden from us all. I have successfully unlocked all of the features except the serial port settings. There was no point in unlocking the serial settings because the board does not have an onboard serial port.
I would like to thank the folks that participated in the post mentioned above. Without you I would of never found the tools that I needed to get the job done. I have attached a zip file with the orginal and unlocked bin files as well as the tools I used to unlock the bios. The kit also conatins a bootable ISO. The ISO allows you to flash the original bios or the unlocked bios from a bootable CD. I have flashed the unlocked bios on my clients machine and it works fine. I was able to get WOR working. For you overclockers, all of the settings are there. Please read Reame!!!.txt in the kit.
Enjoy all...
One of my clients has a Gateway GT5056 with a Foxconn C51GU01 mobo. He has a requirement to have his machine go into standby. He also needs to have wake up on lan and wake up on ring capabilities. The WOL was not problem. I just enabled the feature in the bios and it worked. The WOR was another story. I could not get the machine to WOR when a Fax came in.
I researched this problem and found that the Award bios should contain a setting for WOR. I determined that Gateway bios engineers had hidden the setting in the bios and had it set to disabled by default. I am not to bothered that they disable the CPU and memory frequency settings but why would they disable WOR. I called Gateway and they were no help at all. The machine is out of warranty and they wanted 39 bucks to speak to a support technician that probably does not even no what WOR is.
I stumbled on a post in this forum http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30405
This post discusses cross flashing the C51GU01 with Foxconns 6100K8MA-RS bios.
I was tempted but folks were having problems when doing this. So I decided to try and unlock WOR and all the other settings Gateway has hidden from us all. I have successfully unlocked all of the features except the serial port settings. There was no point in unlocking the serial settings because the board does not have an onboard serial port.
I would like to thank the folks that participated in the post mentioned above. Without you I would of never found the tools that I needed to get the job done. I have attached a zip file with the orginal and unlocked bin files as well as the tools I used to unlock the bios. The kit also conatins a bootable ISO. The ISO allows you to flash the original bios or the unlocked bios from a bootable CD. I have flashed the unlocked bios on my clients machine and it works fine. I was able to get WOR working. For you overclockers, all of the settings are there. Please read Reame!!!.txt in the kit.
Enjoy all...
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