BK-1264NP-4L BIOS and other mods
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plug in an NVME driveyeah, works fine after this
but i didn't unlocked any options in bios
the bios is buggy but when I don't have an NVME drive plugged in the unlocked options are not present
pluggin in an NVME drive shows the options
Is there a guide to disassemble one of these? I can see inside there are screws and on the sides also but which need to be removed? I could try them all..
I just want to find out the board version - is there a way without taking off the heatsink?
EDIT: It is actually on the board without having to take off the heatsink side (although I did to re-paste):
Now the problem I have is that the updated/edited BIOS from @thys and the guide from @cperka with missing menu items enabled is only for v1.2 Oh well looks like its not possible at the moment. I've contacted the seller on Aliexpress but it's unlikely they'll provide a BIOS with full menus. UPDATE: They say "no bios, dear". Yeah, they aren't interested in providing bios files.
EDIT2: Re-pasting with Noctua NT-H2 brought my idle temps in Proxmox down from 46c to 35c and under load stays around 40c! Well worth it even though I wont be able to run my ram at 5600 MT/s it supports since the BIOS defaults to 4800 MT/s - so much performance unavailable!
Anyone know why they seem to go out of their way to limit the options in the BIOS?
@thys I'm tempted to modify the BIOS for my v1.4 board to enable full menus if there isn't already one available - did you use any guides or already know how to do this?
I just want to find out the board version - is there a way without taking off the heatsink?
EDIT: It is actually on the board without having to take off the heatsink side (although I did to re-paste):
Now the problem I have is that the updated/edited BIOS from @thys and the guide from @cperka with missing menu items enabled is only for v1.2
Oh well looks like its not possible at the moment. I've contacted the seller on Aliexpress but it's unlikely they'll provide a BIOS with full menus. UPDATE: They say "no bios, dear". Yeah, they aren't interested in providing bios files.EDIT2: Re-pasting with Noctua NT-H2 brought my idle temps in Proxmox down from 46c to 35c and under load stays around 40c! Well worth it even though I wont be able to run my ram at 5600 MT/s it supports since the BIOS defaults to 4800 MT/s - so much performance unavailable!
Anyone know why they seem to go out of their way to limit the options in the BIOS?
@thys I'm tempted to modify the BIOS for my v1.4 board to enable full menus if there isn't already one available - did you use any guides or already know how to do this?
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There is a BIOS for V1.4 from @tdatta.Is there a guide to disassemble one of these? I can see inside there are screws and on the sides also but which need to be removed? I could try them all..
I just want to find out the board version - is there a way without taking off the heatsink?
EDIT: It is actually on the board without having to take off the heatsink side (although I did to re-paste):
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Now the problem I have is that the updated/edited BIOS from @thys and the guide from @cperka with missing menu items enabled is only for v1.2
EDIT2: Re-pasting with Noctua NT-H2 brought my idle temps in Proxmox down from 46c to 35c and under load stays around 40c! Well worth it even though I wont be able to run my ram at 5600 MT/s it supports since the BIOS defaults to 4800 MT/s - so much performance unavailable!
Anyone know why they seem to go out of their way to limit the options in the BIOS?
@thys I'm tempted to modify the BIOS for my v1.4 board to enable full menus if there isn't already one available - did you use any guides or already know how to do this?
I can't say if it works on these boards but there was a post a few months ago:
There's also generally been a thing that a lot of bioses in the world support a trick early in entering the bios that reveals the advanced tab. Eg. A key, FN+something, etc. Some need the keystroke and then reboot into bios again!
I'm not sure if those types of trigger have been explored on the Chinese boards.
Interesting thanks, that would be much more preferable to flashing a different BIOS. I've tried a few keyboard shortcust but didn't realise I'd need to reboot to see the menus if it worked. I really don't understand why they restrict the BIOS's like this.
I just want to run the ram at its rated speed of 5600mt/s rather than the 4800mt/s it's auto set to...
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Thanks I'll check it out.
UPDATE: So I used @cperka instructions to backup my existing BIOS and very nervously flash the 1.5 edited one from @tdatta since I have a v1.4 board and v1.5 bios same as they do so was a lucky match. Hair raising process while it flashed but seems to have worked ok (takes a while to reboot after flashing) and now I see more BIOS options which is great.
Thanks to everyone's feedback, instructions and tips but unfortunately I don't think it's possible to set RAM speed on these systems or at least I still don't see options in the BIOS to change any memory settings. Doesn't look like I'll be able to run the RAM at 5600mt/s after all. So on balance if I knew that I might not have taken the risk but no harm done and I can tweak power settings now which is nice.
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I just want to say thanks to everyone for the mods and great tutorials. I have BK-1264NP-4L v1.4 board with 1.5 BIOS so I flashed tdatta 1.5 mod and everything went smoothly.
On a side note, I did the mod in order to get access to power settings and while following this tutorial, I noticed that things like "Platform PL1 Enable", "Platform PL2 Enable" were completely disabled in BIOS...Now I don't know if that's just an artifact of the flash, but I wouldn't really be surprised if these settings were really disabled because the CPU ran unreasonably hot for the kind of power it packs (It's now around 40C under full load with fan on top which is probably much closer to normal)
On a side note, I did the mod in order to get access to power settings and while following this tutorial, I noticed that things like "Platform PL1 Enable", "Platform PL2 Enable" were completely disabled in BIOS...Now I don't know if that's just an artifact of the flash, but I wouldn't really be surprised if these settings were really disabled because the CPU ran unreasonably hot for the kind of power it packs (It's now around 40C under full load with fan on top which is probably much closer to normal)
Hello!
After a power surge, the BK-1264NP-4L board v.1.0 did not boot.
After connecting the monitor, it booted completely one time, then booted several times to the AMI logo, and later no video. There is a reaction to the power button, the LEDs light up. If I try to boot without RAM, it beeps.
I am looking for a BIOS for my board v.1.0.
Please help.
Thank you very much for any help!
After a power surge, the BK-1264NP-4L board v.1.0 did not boot.
After connecting the monitor, it booted completely one time, then booted several times to the AMI logo, and later no video. There is a reaction to the power button, the LEDs light up. If I try to boot without RAM, it beeps.
I am looking for a BIOS for my board v.1.0.
Please help.
Thank you very much for any help!
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Don't do anything with a replacement BIOS yet.
Leave it unplugged for 30-60 minutes.
Plug it in and connect keyboard and display as normal, then press the power button and let it sit ON. 30 minutes or more if it takes that long.
Come back and see if anything has changed.
If not, press the small button to reset the CMOS and repeat all above steps.
The last time I had a rapid power-failure my system stopped booting (version 1.1) - I had to do the above to get it working again. Once it starts working it reliably shuts down and reboots with expected quick startup. I have no idea why it takes so long to get it going the first time after such an event - after flashing a new BIOS, this kind of long boot cycle can also happen.
Leave it unplugged for 30-60 minutes.
Plug it in and connect keyboard and display as normal, then press the power button and let it sit ON. 30 minutes or more if it takes that long.
Come back and see if anything has changed.
If not, press the small button to reset the CMOS and repeat all above steps.
The last time I had a rapid power-failure my system stopped booting (version 1.1) - I had to do the above to get it working again. Once it starts working it reliably shuts down and reboots with expected quick startup. I have no idea why it takes so long to get it going the first time after such an event - after flashing a new BIOS, this kind of long boot cycle can also happen.
I'll try, thanks!
But there is a nuance, after a power surge, it was turned on for 20-30 minutes in place of the router, without a monitor and keyboard.
After that, I moved it to the monitor, turned on, loaded proxmox, sent to reboot - it loaded to the AMI logo and stopped, loaded several more times to AMI, after that it did not display picture, but it responds to the power button (LEDs) and beeps if you pull out the DDR
But there is a nuance, after a power surge, it was turned on for 20-30 minutes in place of the router, without a monitor and keyboard.
After that, I moved it to the monitor, turned on, loaded proxmox, sent to reboot - it loaded to the AMI logo and stopped, loaded several more times to AMI, after that it did not display picture, but it responds to the power button (LEDs) and beeps if you pull out the DDR
Hello
After few trial, few modded versions of BIOS and one bricks of router your modded bios unlocked advanced power settings. Big thanks to you.
Can you tell me what software you have used to unlock the BIOS?
Hello! Have anyone got their BKHD-1264NP-12-4L v1.1 board's MiniPCI-e port working?
I'm trying to pair it with Quectel EP06-E modem that won't come up. Modem gets slightly warm, so it presumably boots, but USB port won't get enabled. Pin 22 (RESET, has pull-up, active at low) is at 3.3, so it seems MB isn't trying to disable the modem.
Also tried to install WiFi card - without success, though. BTW mPCI-e is enabled in BIOS.
I'm trying to pair it with Quectel EP06-E modem that won't come up. Modem gets slightly warm, so it presumably boots, but USB port won't get enabled. Pin 22 (RESET, has pull-up, active at low) is at 3.3, so it seems MB isn't trying to disable the modem.
Also tried to install WiFi card - without success, though. BTW mPCI-e is enabled in BIOS.
@thys @tdatta what method were you guys using to modify the bios? I would like to enable the memory page so memory speed and timing can be set since a lot of perf is lost there with those super lose timings, but whenever I make use of UEFI-Editor, I just get a bios that doesn't give a menu. It's been years since I've done bios modding and the days of amibcp seem to be dead but UEFI-Editor uefitool ne a68 and uefitool 0.28 arent seemingly producing a working bios for me.
Flashing a modified bios doesn't unlock memory speed settings in my experience so not worth doing unless you want the other settings to be available. IMO not worth it.