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    My bios...

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Tgambob, Mar 20, 2017.

  1. Tgambob

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    First of all my bios is unlocked, this is not to get around that junk. This is just because I felt like learning about it and see if I could use a egpu. So I opened up my bios and have been activating menus and was wondering if anyone else had played in these? I'm trying to link pictures and my phone is lot letting me
     
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    And then there is Mac and OSX.
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    There is nothing obvious in the BIOS referring to EGPU.
    Any mods would need to be done to the BIOS file once it was extracted to the hard drive. Then the modded file would need to be flashed back onto the device. It has been done here before, but I only know of one guy and I have not seen him on the board in quite a while. He did it for wifi cards and to remove a customer specific boot logo.
    I never mention or encourage this because if you don't know what you are doing, you can permanently brick your laptop.
     
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    On my cf19 mk 6 it's the aptio uefi. I have already used the tools to pull a copy of the program and go inside of it. That was the easy part lol. What I'm running into is there is 2 main paths to molding aptio to how you want it. One is just changing every privilege to user (automated with program) repacking and flashing then the other is actually changing stings in had recompile and flashing . I'm just trying to figure out which one is best for pani uefi. Splash screen change is another option I'm playing around with. Amibcp is what the actual paying around has been inside. It's the ami mod tool straight from ami. The uefi tools I usually use don't seem to work on this which made me ask questions. I have pics of all this if I can get them to load on here
     
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    If you get one recompiled and able to reflash onto the CF19 mk6, I would like a copy.

    Photos are difficult here. Easier to load on to an external site...photbucket etc
     
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    I'm working on both ways now. I have definitely found the "bits" (I know bad pun) I was looking for. I want to go through them a couple more times before I try to flash either way.
    I will probably try the one where I enabled access to the other menus first since that was the most simple one since it was all done in the aptio kit. The chip set, debug menus were in there just set to a higher permission lvl and made transparent.
    I was just hoping someone else was playing in this code that I could compare notes with since I can't find anyone else even on bios mods forum playing with the pani uefi. I will see if I can go somewhere that has WiFi and set up a photo bucket or something (no Internet at house, sucks but I have 150 acres so tradeoff)
     
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