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1 year ago Windows 7 on the pure UEFI may help
You can view which resources (memory and I/O ports) are assigned to PCI-E devices in your system using Linux command "lspci -vv | less"
here is a way to change your VGA_ROM_ADDRESS (have not tested this)
Edit: UefiSeven (in my experience) is "happier" with intel motherboard chipsets
on my GA-A320M-H board (CSM disabled), both graphics cards, a Radeon HD 8490 & a GeForce GTX 1050 fail to unlock memory
same cards on an Asrock J3355M board (CSM disabled), do unlock but are also stuck on the win logo dimming up & down. VNC Remote access is not possible, but pushing the power switch does shutdown the system normally. (force_fakevesa=1 did not help either)
to my surprise, on the Asrock J3355M board, Flashboot Pro, has the exact same behavior, symptoms to that of UefiSeven
the log from the failed UEFI class3 boot
UefiMain: UefiSeven 1.30 UefiMain: You are running in verbose mode, press Enter to continue InitializeDisplay: Found a GOP display adapter SwitchVideoMode: Set mode 3 with desired 1024x768 resolution. PrintVideoInfo: Current mode: PrintVideoInfo: HorizontalResolution = 1024 PrintVideoInfo: VerticalResolution = 768 PrintVideoInfo: PixelFormat = 1 PrintVideoInfo: PixelsPerScanLine = 1024 PrintVideoInfo: FrameBufferBase = 80000000 PrintVideoInfo: FrameBufferSize = 3145728 PrintVideoInfo: Available modes (MaxMode = 5): PrintVideoInfo: Mode0: 1600x900 PrintVideoInfo: Mode1: 640x480 PrintVideoInfo: Mode2: 800x600 PrintVideoInfo: Mode3: 1024x768 PrintVideoInfo: Mode4: 1152x864 IsInt10hHandlerDefined: Int10h IVT entry points at location (0000:0000) outside VGA ROM memory area (C0000..D0000), rejecting handler EnsureMemoryLock: Memory at C0000 already unlocked UefiMain: VESA information filled in, Int10h handler address=C0200 (C000:0200) EnsureMemoryLock: Failure locking memory at C0000 with EfiLegacyRegion2Protocol EnsureMemoryLock: Failure locking memory at C0000 with MTRRs EnsureMemoryLock: Unable to find a way to lock memory at C0000 UefiMain: Unable to lock VGA ROM memory at C0000 but this is not essential UefiMain: Int10h IVT entry modified to point at C000:0200 IsInt10hHandlerDefined: Int10h IVT entry points at location within VGA ROM memory area (C000:0200) IsInt10hHandlerDefined: First Int10h handler instruction at C000:0200 (3D) valid, accepting handler UefiMain: Pre-boot Int10h sanity check success FileExists: Opened file '\EFI\Boot\bootx64_uefiseven.original.efi' for reading UefiMain: Found Windows Boot Manager at '\EFI\Boot\bootx64_uefiseven.original.efi' Launch: Loaded 'PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x12,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(1,MBR,0x00002274,0x800,0x32000)/\EFI\Boot\bootx64_uefiseven.original.efi' Launch: Addresss behind FileImageHandle=74E79E98 CheckBootMgrGuid: Found 9DEA862C-5CDD-4E70-ACC1-F32B344D4795 Launch: File matches an EFI loader signature WaitForEnter: Press Enter to continue
enabling CSM & booting in UEFI without either UefiSeven or Flashboot Pro works fine on the Asrock J3355M
Finally, I was able to use UefiSeven on an Asus PRIME N100I-D D4-CSM board (CSM disabled). for some reason I was able to succeed this only with the help of refindPlus
in ALL motherboards, I flash the latest available bios
so after all, UefiSeven is NOT that bad. the basic thing, still missing, is adjusting the gop resolution by hand as an option in the .ini file
possibly poking around these lines, but the code is based on a quite old EDK II project
hello, i am using asus x509da laptop. İ am trying to install win7 on my computer, and my bios is completely uefı class3. So i tryed uefı seven, but it giving this error and it cant do its job. How i can fix this issue? İf someone fixed this issue, please help because i want to install windows7 and test on this hardware. My laptop specifications: AMD ryzen 3 3250u radeon graphichs 2.6 ghz max 3.5ghz, ddr4 2400mhz ram, 256 gb ssd, amd radeon vega3 graphich card. Thanks again. UefiMain: UefiSeven 1.30 InitializeDisplay: Found a GOP display adapter SwitchVideoMode: Set mode 2 with desired 1024x768 resolution. PrintVideoInfo: Current mode: PrintVideoInfo: HorizontalResolution = 1024 PrintVideoInfo: VerticalResolution = 768 PrintVideoInfo: PixelFormat = 1 PrintVideoInfo: PixelsPerScanLine = 1024 PrintVideoInfo: FrameBufferBase = E0000000 PrintVideoInfo: FrameBufferSize = 3145728 PrintVideoInfo: Available modes (MaxMode = 4): PrintVideoInfo: Mode0: 1366x768 PrintVideoInfo: Mode1: 800x600 PrintVideoInfo: Mode2: 1024x768 PrintVideoInfo: Mode3: 640x480 IsInt10hHandlerDefined: Int10h IVT entry points at location (0000:0000) outside VGA ROM memory area (C0000..D0000), rejecting handler EnsureMemoryLock: Failure unlocking memory at C0000 with MTRRs EnsureMemoryLock: Unable to find a way to unlock memory at C0000 UefiMain: Unable to unlock VGA ROM memory at C0000, aborting FileExists: Opened file '\EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.original.efi' for reading UefiMain: Found Windows Boot Manager at '\EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.original.efi' Launch: Loaded 'PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x3)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,63-9A-58-49-8B-44-1B-00)/HD(1,GPT,86FDF8B7-1BAD-4D34-9B07-8E651DA14281,0x800,0x32000)/\EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.original.efi' Launch: Addresss behind FileImageHandle=B9BF4B18 CheckBootMgrGuid: Found 9DEA862C-5CDD-4E70-ACC1-F32B344D4795 Launch: File matches an EFI loader signature