Unofficial Spectre Patched BIOS for MSI X58 Motherboards

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Here are modded BIOSes for MSI X58 motherboards patched with the latest microcode (0x1F for Westmere, 0x1D for Bloomfield) to address all variants of Spectre. Make sure the operating system is also updated to be fully protected from speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities.

Unofficial ROMs! use at your own risk.

• MSI X58 Pro
• MSI X58 Pro SLI
• MSI X58 Pro-E
• MSI X58 Pro-E SLI
• MSI X58 Pro-E USB3
• MSI X58 Platinum
• MSI X58 Platinum SLI
• MSI X58A-GD45
• MSI X58A-GD65 (M)
• MSI X58A-GD65 (N)
• MSI X58M
• MSI X58M SLI
• MSI Eclipse Plus
• MSI Eclipse SLI

You can flash the ROM through the BIOS itself via M-Flash (requires USB flash drive formatted with FAT32 file system), or with the included AFUDOS utility (requires bootable DVD/USB with DOS).
Thanks to vailr for beta testing and making this possible.

 

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OP requests closure.