ECS 945GZT-M (945GZ/CT-M): BIOS Unlock

[Maxinator500]

I added 3 new settings inc. CPU VID to the standard features menu. Had to sacrifice the separator items though.

There are two roms in the archive. Since there is 2 non identical CPU VID settings in the bios, I decided to add both of these in one of the roms. Hope this allow you to set voltages.

[mbentefor]

looking at Strings set it seems there are some traces of such functionality

I added 3 new settings inc. CPU VID to the standard features menu. Had to sacrifice the separator items though.

There are two roms in the archive. Since there is 2 non identical CPU VID settings in the bios, I decided to add both of these in one of the roms. Hope this allow you to set voltages.

Wow, it is incredible. And I assume all of that is done purely in a hex editor based on your knowledge. I did suspect it is not enough to have some set of tools... 
Unfortunately the new items didn't show up at all. Could it be due to the list of IDE/SATA devices being auto populated/auto sized?
Is it possible to locate those new menus in these locations:
(Advanced Features) CPU TM Function -> Intel Dynamic Accelerator Technology
(Advanced Features) Case Open Warning -> Ratio CMOS Setting
(Power Management) PS2 Keyboard Wakeup -> CPU VID 1
(Power Management) PS2 Mouse Wakeup -> CPU VID 2
?
Thank you so much!

[Maxinator500]

the new items didn't show up at all. Could it be due to the list of IDE/SATA devices being auto populated/auto sized?

No. This is due to the items being marked as Ext. (external), which means there must be met certain conditions for them to show up. Like cpu family and stuff. The fact they did not show up cuts the chances that the items are going to actually do anything.
I tried forcing them to show up the same way I done this years back. Here's what I got: SLABmod~2.zip.

Is it possible to locate those new menus in these locations

I can do this provided that there will be any use of them.

[mbentefor]

I have tested the rom. The options did appear, however I can't use/test them because their values are just random strings ("1080i50", "ntime space for MPS" etc)
Except for CMOS Ratio, which has correct 1-255 values (hehe, 255x multiplier)
The Intel Dynamic Acceleration per its description seems to be specifically for mobile Core processors.

[Maxinator500]

Because of my offtopic we've got a separate thread now. Ws to the mod that he didn't simply delete our messages.

I can't use/test them because their values are just random strings ("1080i50"

I see, I figured out why these exact strings are popping up, but more on this later. Remember I linked the method I used to edit the bios? It is not correct for your device, apparently. I mean, it worked for another because it was the special occasion.

So, the change of certain flags made bios expect the settings being several bytes longer, while there is no more data at the end and the next byte is a different setting already.
In case of ASUS P5, options for even external items were intact to main body. And ECS 945 uses something like symlinks in linux. Options are away from settings.

Believe me or not, I feel like Mike Leatherwood now because I'm not only spend inordinate amount of time trying to understand the setup utility, but also prepared the explanatory picture.

Here's how to find settings' options and their functions as well:


If you look at the junction of CPU VID settings 1 and 2, you can notice bytes there forming the value 0158, which completely corresponds to "1080i50" string. Writing 81 at offset 3116C makes bios thinking that 0158 is a legit option.
Of course, in my new mod I gave up on this and tried to patch functions instead: SLABmod~3.zip.

Reverted standard features menu to its default state, put second advanced menu in place of DVD drives.
How it looks in BCP: