[REQUEST] Asus Rog Strix III (G731GU) advanced menu unlock assistance

[genius239]

To reallylovetacos ,i've sent a bios mod to Jaitsu but he don't reply me yet.
If you also need menu unlock ,use tool of#2 to dump bios and attach.(run dump.bat as administrator)

*. it's not every memory module can be running at 3200mhz stably.

[reallylovetacos]

To reallylovetacos ,i've sent a bios mod to Jaitsu but he don't reply me yet.
If you also need menu unlock ,use tool of#2  to dump bios and attach.(run dump.bat as administrator)

*. it's not every memory module can be running at 3200mhz stably.

Thank you very much for the support on this. The memory in the laptop right now is aftermarket 3200mhz cas 16 which is way better than the crap 2666mhz cas 19 memory it came with. Should improve my 1% lows by a decent amount specially if I can further tweek the latency.

I attached the file as a rar since it was too big otherwise. Let me know if it works for you or not, and have a great day!

[genius239]

To reallylovetacos ,i've sent a bios mod to Jaitsu but he don't reply me yet.
If you also need menu unlock ,use tool of#2  to dump bios and attach.(run dump.bat as administrator)

*. it's not every memory module can be running at 3200mhz stably.

Thank you very much for the support on this. The memory in the laptop right now is aftermarket 3200mhz cas 16 which is way better than the crap 2666mhz cas 19 memory it came with. Should improve my 1% lows by a decent amount specially if I can further tweek the latency.

I attached the file as a rar since it was too big otherwise. Let me know if it works for you or not, and have a great day!

Please check you pm!

[Jaitsu]

To Jaitsu ,why i don't reply to you on this thread.
Because i'm no way to solve undervoltage restriction in newest bios ,and your demand is very weird ,on low voltage(on silent mode) but wanna get high performance on gaming?? i really don't understood!

Another reason ,if you insist to adjust cpu vcore voltage in bios ,it will let your laptop crush and almost can't revert ,clear cmos or re-write bios still no any hlep ,on my impression only a Korea user can avoid this issue  and do undervoltage successfully.
(Enable internal graphic also let it crush)
If you only want to make undervoltage in XTU ,you can downgrade bios to version 307 then try.

And why i always want people to dump bios with fpt ,it's very simple cuz asus official bios can't bypass and re-flash again by EZflash when we do any changes in bios.
As i can't achieve your request  ,so i will not reply to that i can't do or i'm not interesting thing  , this's my custom.

Undervoltage unlock is hard to do by my ability ,but overclocking memory or enable XMP feature or let some hidden items appear in bios is possible.
This's an example for oc memory in the similar laptop model.
https://239239.blogspot.com/2020/08/GU50...ry_12.html


*I've ever thought ,if we can could swapping older microcode from old bios inject to new bios to solve undervoltage restriction ,but i'm not sure and it may danger ,so if people don't have spi programer i will not to do this test.

I'm not expecting high performance when the voltage is low, I want to use ThrottleStop or Intel XTU to adjust it depending on how much it needs automatically, so it's not using more voltage than it needs

ASUS silent mode = 675mV/900MHz idle, 950mV/1.3GHz under load
Quiet but slow and won't speed up

ASUS Performance mode = 1200mV/4.2 GHz idle or under load, never slows down
Fast but runs hot and noisy when doing nothing

ASUS Windows mode = 1.8 MHz/1140mV idle, 4.1GHz/1200mV under load
As fast as Performance but never lowers voltage when idle, better but still a bit noisy when idle

Right now it just doesn't respond to XTU or ThrottleStop at all, XTU has the voltage options greyed out and throttlestop just doesn't work, I was hoping an unlock would allow them to work so I could run it cool when idle and fast under load without always having to switch profiles. I'll give it a try in version 307, maybe that can do what I want it to. If it would be useful I could also provide a dump from 307 when it's installed just for unlocking other options.

EDIT: genius239, thank you! I didn't see the DM til now, I'll try to get it installed and working later this evening

EDIT 2: the download link didn't work, so I've been trying downgrading to 307 instead. The downgrade works, and XTU works afterward! ...But after the downgrade, the next time I reboot, it reboots twice, "Please wait while we install a system update" flashes on the screen, and the BIOS updater pops up again and forces it back to 310. I'm not sure what's going on there, possibly Armoury Crate forcing it to update again?

If I shut it off and interrupt it during the two reboots, then I can boot it up again and stick to 307, but the next time I reboot normally and don't interrupt it it force-updates back to 310. Anyone know how to prevent this?

EDIT 3: nevermind, windows was doing it, it's the "Firmware" entry in Device Manager, you have to open that and "upgrade" to 10.1.2.307 instead of 10.1.2.310

[genius239]

To Jaitsu ,check your pm again.

Visit this link and look at #28 ,it seems has a way to disable windows update to automatically update bios.
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.ph...self/page3

[reallylovetacos]

The bio's menu unlock worked for me and my memory took a nice jump from crappy 2666mhz CAS 19 to 3200mhz CAS 16. Just check out the latency boost alone: https://imgur.com/a/BuYHIhK


Thanks a ton genius239, I really appreciate the assistance on this.

As for anyone wondering, the memory is simply running it's XMP profile. It's not perfectly stable though and I need to figure out what's going on to cause memory errors cause I do get them from time to time. I increased the voltage from 1.2V to 1.3V and it's helped a bit, but I might have to play with custom timings to get it fully corrected.

FYI I did already bonk the laptop once and it didn't boot anymore thanks to wack timings, so had to snip my CMOS battery cable to get it to reset bios, lmao. I mean honestly, why on earth do I even need a CMOS battery for a laptop. It's got an always connected battery in it anyways, ha.

[checho221]

Hi, i really appreciate your help for updating the firmaware, i already got the dump.rom file and i am trying to use AFUDOS.EXE dump.rom /GAN but i don't see the option for disable CSM in the bios options, i just can disable fast or secure boot, i can only boot from windows USB ok, but i have problems for boot from non windows usb boot.

[BATZEN1981]

wanted to unlock my bios but dont know how for aleast to recognize my installation of windows 11 it just boot loops no matter what i do i notice some parts are greyed out on boot options but still theres no complete startup it would be nice if someone could download the 312 version bios and help me fix this with same mac address and serial number of my laptop im not sure if this bios is good because its greyed out i dumped it in two ways rom and bin, rom was don with aptio v efi with afuefix64 efi and the bin ive attached is the programmer rt809f dump that uploaded.  at the moment i cant flash it back with afuefix64 efi for both reason that bios is protected from flash error 18 i did notice if someone can do this bios i can flash it back with my programmer please help me as im running out of options also i look at some txt file and the address for bios with the forums and the var-setup 0xb4b 0x0 doesnt take affect to set to disable the bios protection that why im also trying to get all the features unlocked as well as flashing with my eeprom programer to fix boot thanks in adavanced
 i will leave u with some files here

im also attaching the txt for bios lock address

[Feanor]

Hello! Need help with ASUS GL731GU laptop. You need to unlock advanced settings for controlling timings and RAM frequency in BIOS 312, as well as access to processor voltage settings. Help me please. Thank you!

[Onkelboern]

Hello.  I need your help too. How to unlock the BIOS? I would like to run my RAM at 3200mhz. My bios is 312 too. Please help me. Thanks you