Recent content by itsakjt

Further enhancements to ASUS Maximus VIII Ranger (Z170) with Coffee Lake. So far, I have been able to 1. Add TPM 2.0 via add on card. 2. Enable Resizable bar by further modding the BIOS and including the Resizable bar DXE driver And now: 2nd NVMe slot: Got a PCIe x4 to NVMe adapter...

That's great. I would suggest to try working around the existing socket first because replacing a CPU socket has some risks and I doubt if a heatgun alone will be enough to reflow the new socket and while making sure the solder balls are properly aligned to the pads.

Awesome. Also, if you check my marking in the post before yours, I have marked the same spot. So congratulations. :D

Alright looked at your video. Pin 102 seems to be connected to the capacitor below that resistor if you follow the track. Just join that capacitor. Also, you can remove that wire you soldered. That point is connected to 103 actually if you follow the trace.

Hello, Please join the wire to the point from the resistor end connected to pin 102 to ground side on the capacitor above it. It will be a diagonal wire.

Hello @BobbyBoyGaming, For area A, try bending the pins back to place with a tweezer or pin. Even if you end up breaking them, it won't matter as they are Vss (ground pins). One of those pins are bent to the point such that it can potentially short a DDR channel pin which might cause issues...

Hello there. BIOS modification look fine. Issue seems to be with SKT_OCC mod, both with respect to symptoms and photo of the board near the super IO. The SKT_OCC mod seems to have been done by shorting the pull up resistor which would not work. Pin 102 of NCT 6793D needs to be grounded and the...

It is likely going to work. Just might need more research to figure out the pin connect/isolatation on the socket.

The latest CoffeeTime 0.99 release is absolutely safe to use and won't get flagged. For a definitive guide, you can follow my YouTube video on the 1st page of this thread. A CH341A programmer will make the entire process much hasslefree adding to that, the board you have, have user removable...

Yes it will be perfectly doable.

Hello there @dumaster , as you might know I am using the original ASUS TPM-M R2.0 card for my ASUS Maximus VIII Ranger and it works perfect. The adapters on AliExpress should work as well as they are not vendor specific and compatibility depends on the pinouts and the chip used (typically from...

You need to run the correct version of FPT (very likely version 11 for 100/200/300 series chipsets. You can check out WinRaid forums for a complete list of supported versions for your chipset and download the appropriate version from there. Google for "Intel CSME winraid"

Hello there, For proper extraction of the BIOS including the FD data which contains stuff like the SN and UUID, you need to use a programmer or use Intel Flash Programming Tool (FPT) as already stated before. Other tools cannot access those regions as they are protected and hence there is...

Yes the process will be different. If you take a dump of the BIOS that is already there and open that with CoffeeTime, you will get the serial no, UUID and MAC address in CoffeeTime itself. Now if you want to mod a fresh BIOS file downloaded from the website for that specific board, you can...

You can use CoffeeTime to edit the board data. There are some tools that can be used after the BIOS is flashed to the board like AMI DMI Tool but that is out of topic for this thread.