Re: [Xen-users] GA-M57SLI-S4

[Age_M <Age_M@xxxxxx>]

Hello Merlyn,

merlyn wrote:
> I'm bought a GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 and wanted to use the cpu SVM feature
> of the board.
I had the problem too. Gigabytes bioses don't support SVM out of the 
box. The feature is disabled and hidden in the bios.
> I read on this list that some of you had used modbin I believe the mod
> the bios so that the option could be enabled. I have modded the latest
> bios downloaded from GIGABYTE site and saved the bios.
Yes, I think 5 or more people had a full success in modifying the bios 
with modbin6. modbin6 version 2.01.02 (06/11) is the one you should use; 
you can check with:
modbin6.exe /?


> But i'm a be scared to flash it...I don't want to create a paper weight with my
> motherboard.
Well, I think all of the people who tried that have been a bit scared. 
It's a risk and yes, if anything goes wrong, the motherboard is nothing 
more than a paper-weight :-p
> could someone help me by telling me the procedure they used for flash as
> well as the recovery procedure if something should go wrong..also it
> would be nice to know if it should work ok.
The flash-procedure is quite easy. You could use a usb-flash-drive 
(USB-stick) with the bios-file on it. Then, during POST, press F9 (i 
guess) to enter QFlash-Utility. If you have enabled USB-Storage-Support 
in the bios you should see the Flash-Drive in the source selection of 
the qflash-utility. Choose the biosfile, cross the fingers and pray 
everything goes OK.
I never had to recover a broken bios and I don't know if there is any 
procedure to recover from a broken bios-flash?!? So, it better works out 
the first time!
You can send me your modified bios-file if you want to. But I could just 
verify if you did everything right with modbin6.
Greetz Age_M

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