RhoXS said:
Facts speak for themselves. I am using a Mr. Natural 7F bios on my TH7II. It has solved the cold boot/spontaneous reboot problem and has given me stability I did not previously have. Abit was unable to provide a bios that could also do this.
If I am correct, the cold boot problem was not solved by Mr Natural but by Abit themselves in the 7c bios, on which Mr Natural 7f bios is based.
Don't get me wrong, when I started the thread
http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=124816 my intention was not to start a flame war toward Mr Natural.
For all I think, I believe he has a very good knowledge of how bios works and has probably done some assembly work in the past on some bios. He also kindly provided oc-forums members with some tweaked bios at a time when few of us would have had the ability to do it.
However I have a problem with the way he presented us his bios: no change log, no explanation. When pushed hard to explain the changes his answer was something along the line
"a few under the hood tweaks". Does that satisfy you?
Here's an analogy: let's assume you go regularly to the gym. A fellow gym member who seems to have more experience than everyone else comes one day and says:
"look there: I have taken this plain painkiller tablet, modified a few ingredients, and there's my tweaked tablet which will help you build body muscle quicker." Would you take it?
Since I was not happy with the way Mr Natural presented his bios, I had to analyze it to know what it did. In the process I learned a lot of things and found out it is very simple to do what he did, and I do not need to use his bios; the official Abit bios is all I need as I can tweak as much as I want to, with the reassuring thought of knowing everything that has been changed and why.
I will probably release a new bios soon. You can expect a full change log from me, along with explanations of how and why I tweaked it.
On a final note, if you want to seriously learn modifying the bios in assembly (which is more than I can do), head up to the biosmods forums where you will find some great people who have an expert knowledge of bioses.