This sounds Great !
Could you see if you could get it to run on the 700 model (2G surf) ?

Sadly Eeectl (or any other overclocking tool) don't seem to work with the 2G surf, so it's unlikely this BIOS patch will work.

Is there any reports from any users? I'd like to hear some field reports if it works before I give it a shot. Might speed up boot by booting at 900Mhz then slow down with Eeectl once booted.

EDIT:

I got bored and tried it. It seems to work as advertised, and it did cut 7 seconds off my boot time (41->34 for the OS load portion).

Last edited by Turionaltec (2009-05-29 10:43:45 am)

2 Ultimate Chicken: this mod replace (also can be added to) "Lan Boot Setup"....hmmm, possibly if lan will disabled from bios, this mod wiln't invoked....i'm to think about this: before make this mod i try do it in bios boot block...with "fiasco" ;( -- bios chip was un-ironed and flashed in external programmer...after this i wan't do experiments with boot block of bios...sorry
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> You didn't replace the "LAN boot ROM" text but you replaced the functionality, right?
yes, sure....i'm just replace calling "lan boot setup" with call of my code (this also can be added in "lan boot setup" -- boot will increased 3-4 sec, because "lan boot setup" wait shift+f10 key press)...in code CPU core voltage is uppered, and PLL setting is changed

Last edited by CheGuevara (2009-05-30 1:55:28 pm)

CheGuevara wrote:

....i'm to think about this: before make this mod i try do it in bios boot block...with "fiasco" ;( -- bios chip was un-ironed and flashed in external programmer...after this i wan't do experiments with boot block of bios...

I am impressed, you got deep into the EEE's design. I have some questions for you:

1. Is it absolutely necessary do de-solder the BIOS chip for re-flashing, or could this also be done via a debug port ?

2. Would you post a how-to for the reflashing ?

This could help those forum members who have bricked their EEEs by unsuccessful BIOS updates, e.g. in this thread:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=67067&p=1

You seem to be better equipped than most hobbyists; de-soldering SMDs from a PCB using usual soldering irons often ruins the contacts.

I assume you use an industrial-standard flash-programmer. Is it possible to use the BIOS ROM-files directly, or is some reformatting necessary, e.g. removing firmware part?

bravo !
I see you have the guts and the brain to perform such a low level and deep hack.
I just can't see the avantage of setting the fsb speed once and for all during boot time versus once booteed and in windows (or linux);
but I really appreciate the perf of hacking some part of the bios to do something really different from what was intended by asus.
Congrats !!!
Cheers.

imho, if replace vga module (get it from eee-900 bios) then eee-701 will work with 9" LCD from eee-900...sorry, I can't check it...
main difference between 701 and 900 -- size of screen, isn't it? all information about screen setting, I think, placed in vga module...

Last edited by CheGuevara (2009-06-02 5:39:20 am)

i'm not asking for help with a screen mod bios... i already did it

i was saying about possibly applying your FSB patch to a bios that has already been modded for the added screen size.

Thank you so much CheGuevara for this patched BIOS. I'm extremely grateful for your work and have been looking for months for this kind of patch.

Having the overclock patch for my EEE 701 means it boots faster, and I don't have to mess about with modprobe in every new version of Linux I install.

You truely are a star - I'm amazed it was so easy to upgrade - format a USB key to FAT, move your ROM file to it, hit ALT-F2 on startup on my EEE and taadaa, a super-fast EEEPC.

This thread should really be easier to find in a search engine, so here's a few related words that I spent ages searching for - hopefully adding these will make it easier for others to find the thread:

EEE 701, BIOS, MOD, Patch, Hack, Overclock, FSB, 900Mhz

Once again, THANK YOU - you have made my day !!!

any people..
dump a 1302 already modified bios and put in this topic !?!?
please

Risso wrote:

any people..
dump a 1302 already modified bios and put in this topic !?!?
please

Why you can't/wan't download from link in first topic??

Yes, it boots fine into Windows at the default 630Mhz speed.

But it may be not your bios fault, it is surely an issue with my 2GB ram stick I recently bought, I can't use eeectl because it always locks up the computer when clocking the cpu at 900mhz, all other overclocking methods fail unless, oddly enough, the famous 511 and 703 bioses, I can put the full performance setting and it runs fine and stable at 900mhz.

I wanted to use your modded bios because I want to get rid of the bug that the older bioses have, which is that the PC freezes when it has low battery charge.

However, your bios and eeectl works with my older Transcend 2GB ram stick that I putted in another eeePC, and in mine works too with that stick.

I'm wondering if it may be possible to investigate the way the old bioses overclock the CPU and put that in the code of a newer bios.