New Bios update tool

Ok that's just wrong.... No wonder we are seeing such tiny IPC bumps with each generation, their design and R&D teams are distracted 

wardog wrote: wardog wrote: "I used UBU for the first time as an inexperienced user and I believe I must have dome something wrong. Help me please." That's where I'd cue the laugh track for 5secs, then hang up. < id="kpm_plugin" ="application/x-KPMPlugin"> In that case, it became Used Before Understanding < id="kpm_plugin" ="application/x-KPMPlugin"> < id="kpm_plugin" ="application/x-KPMPlugin">

The following are not about UBU itself whatsoever, or its creators.

Or...

Unbelievably Beyond U

U Better Understand

Unintentionally Broken Unrecoverable

Unrecoverable Beyond Understanding

Universal BIOS Undecipherabler

Unauthorized BIOS Underwriter

Uninitiated BIOS Unanalyzabler
 

ASRock Expert wrote: I use it for some time. It's a good tool. But why can't we have a dedicated ASRock tool for that? That would be so great and easy. But ASRock just don't want to expand the community of MOD-ers and developers. Sight...

Why can't ASRock, etc, provide such a tool? Many reasons, including:

• It would be a support nightmare. That one little sentence combines so many different aspects of the creation, maintenance, and continued updates of such a tool, to describe all of it would take days to simply type it in. That is, after all the real work was done, which would take months. I nominate you as the head moderator of the BIOS modifying tool support sub-forum. Good luck with that.
  
• The true source of the firmware (such as AMI) could have legal authority over tools that modify their product. We have all agreed to comply with "Conditions of Use" for all kinds of software, that includes things like no reverse engineering or dis-assembly of the code.
• Remember what happened the last time some of the mother board manufactures added a new option called "non-Z OC"?
  

You make it sound like other mother board manufactures provide mother board firmware modification tools. They don't. The one that was mentioned that changed the splash screen image is useful if you are 12 years old, is very simple compared to what UBU can do, and serves no real purpose.

As usual when complex things are simplified (a BIOS modding tool), everything is left to the imagination regarding what tools like this do.

While UBU is great, I'm sure its creators would tell you that what it actually can do is virtually nothing compared to what some people might imagine a tool like this would do, and what a boards firmware is capable of doing.

Can it add new UEFI/BIOS options? No.
Can it modify existing UEFI/BIOS options? No.
Can it simply change the text description of a UEFI/BIOS option. No.

Your accusation that ASRock, or any mother board manufacture, "... just don't want to expand
the community of MOD-ers and developers", because they don't supply a "BIOS modding too" is ridiculous and without basis.

I believe ASRock does not provide BIOS Modding tools, besides the reasons I listed above and others I did not think of, is because that is not the goal,  intent, and purpose of the ASRock corporation.



Edited by parsec - 15 Dec 2015 at 1:32pm

Agreed. They most likely haven't updated the listing description.

And not to get under your skin concerning, but I doubt it's high on their To Do List either

ASRock Expert wrote: Well, Gigabyte had a tool called "FaceWizard" back in 1999. on socket A (462).

And they, Gigabyte, yet offers Face Wizard
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/utility.aspx

Though the OS's it supports shows it does not include Windows 10.


I remember it well.

wardog wrote: "I used UBU for the first time as an inexperienced user and I believe I must have dome something wrong. Help me please." That's where I'd cue the laugh track for 5secs, then hang up. < id="kpm_plugin" ="application/x-KPMPlugin">

In that case, it became Used Before Understanding


Edited by wardog - 15 Dec 2015 at 7:04am