Please provide unlocked BIOS for Acer Predator Triton 700

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  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,774 Pathfinder
    @egydiocoelho I was about to say that... you beat me to it!

    @garrick
    Also, do not worry about reconverting to GPT to install Windows. I have my windows 10 clean installed on G3-572 on a hard disk converted from GPT to MBR.
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  • garrick
    garrick Member Posts: 11

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    @egydiocoelho
    @sri369

    I just did what you guys suggest, linux still failed to recognize any drive. Entered nvme_load=YES on boot still failed. Could you confirm that your drive is not in AHCI when you said you successfully installed linux? So far i can only see switching to AHCI is the sole solution. Dammnit Acer, please unlock the SATA mode!
  • adamo000
    adamo000 Member Posts: 61 Devotee WiFi Icon
    garrick said:
    Hey, could you link the guide how to do that? Much appreciated!
    Sorry @garrick, every unlocked BIOS is made by someone on the forum individually. Your mainboard has unique serial number and it BIOS can't be done for everyone at once.
  • Commodore_1995#
    Commodore_1995# ACE Posts: 98,322 Trailblazer
    @garrick Leave ssd in mbr and format fat32! Leave the bios in legacy mode and disable the secureboot!
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  • Red-Sand
    Red-Sand ACE Posts: 1,892 Pathfinder
    edited July 2018
    Like @egydiocoelho said legacy mode & disable secure boot
    - Hotel Hero
  • Red-Sand
    Red-Sand ACE Posts: 1,892 Pathfinder
    And nope not much benefit from unlocking the BIOs.
    Acer was even gracious enough to have turbo ratio limits and speedstep enabled to allow adjustment via throttlestop.

    Using the tweaks available through software I can maintain 65/68 C for GPU/CPU max on ANY game.

    Sounds like a success to me.
    - Hotel Hero
  • Red-Sand
    Red-Sand ACE Posts: 1,892 Pathfinder
    I'd also like to add @garrick you can use a USB pendrive much easier by running from it and all you have to do is set to legacy and disable secure boot for it to work.
    - Hotel Hero
  • garrick
    garrick Member Posts: 11

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    edited July 2018
    @egydiocoelho
    @Red-Sand

    i don’t think to format such a big drive using fat32 is possible (I actually tried, and it failed)
    the bios can’t enable legacy mode, as shown in attached images.
    yep, I could install to pen drive but I don’t want to limit my speed to only 150mb/s as I’m dealing with large files for machine learning. Thus I wonder if this laptop could boot from usb c.  I actually made a separate post here and didn’t get a definite answer yet.


  • Red-Sand
    Red-Sand ACE Posts: 1,892 Pathfinder
    You could partition the drive and format that one maybe?

    I haven't tried booting from USB c but I imagine it would be possible since it's just USB 3.1 basically.

    Anither thought it partitioning your drive to have a separate unformatted section then when setting up ubuntu using gpart to set the unallocated as your installation point.
    - Hotel Hero
  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,774 Pathfinder
    garrick said:
    @egydiocoelho
    @Red-Sand

    i don’t think to format such a big drive using fat32 is possible (I actually tried, and it failed)
    the bios can’t enable legacy mode, as shown in attached images.
    yep, I could install to pen drive but I don’t want to limit my speed to only 150mb/s as I’m dealing with large files for machine learning. Thus I wonder if this laptop could boot from usb c.  I actually made a separate post here and didn’t get a definite answer yet.
    You cannot format using FAT32 for such large drives.

    Boot up using a live USB. Open the partitioning program in it to remove all partitions on your drive. After all are removed, create a large partition, with disk in MBR mode. And then make a small 100 MB partition. And delete the large one. This way you'll have a disk with MBR and one random tiny partition. Now boot up with Linux and it will take the MBR hard disk. After creating partitions in Linux, you can remove the tiny one you created earlier.

    But then... all this only after you update your bios to legacy and secure boot disabled.

    To disable secure boot, you need to set up a master password for your laptop bios. Only then it would allow you disable secure boot. And only after disabling secure boot you would be able to change to legacy boot.
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  • Commodore_1995#
    Commodore_1995# ACE Posts: 98,322 Trailblazer
    @garrickThe fat32 file system does not format hds very large, that is, it only formats up to 32gb! However you can follow this site and try to install linux in gpt-uefi format! http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi/
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  • SFBGENERAL
    SFBGENERAL Member Posts: 1 New User
    @Red-Sand
    Can you send me your unlocked Bios, I have the same ACER Predator model!
  • Red-Sand
    Red-Sand ACE Posts: 1,892 Pathfinder
    edited August 2018
    SFBGENERAL said:
    @Red-Sand
    Can you send me your unlocked Bios, I have the same ACER Predator model!
    It doesnt work that way.
    It needs to be unlocked by physically attaching a programmer to the BIOs chip on your motherboard then the other end via usb connected to another computer where you then "download" the chips firmware then wipe your chips BIOs then modify the firmware and "reupload".

    Its specific to your system only and cannot be shared.

    If anyone tells you it can be done they are lying to you.
    - Hotel Hero
  • Skree
    Skree Member Posts: 97 Fixer WiFi Icon
    @HotelHero

    Sorry to come out a bit out of the blue. But a question: you get 65/68 in any game in an Helios 300, 500 or a Triton 700?

    Because  i have never seen a Triton 700 with those temps. Even the recent alienware 15 with i9 and 1080 is superhot.
  • Keicchan
    Keicchan Member Posts: 48 Devotee WiFi Icon
    edited September 2018
    Skree said:
    @HotelHero

    Sorry to come out a bit out of the blue. But a question: you get 65/68 in any game in an Helios 300, 500 or a Triton 700?

    Because  i have never seen a Triton 700 with those temps. Even the recent alienware 15 with i9 and 1080 is superhot.


    after repasted (kryonaut) got 68 cpu - 66 gpu on a triton 700 1080 while gaming with 40%-60% loads; at full load, after 30mins was 92 - 87 before repaste, now 87-85 (ambient 25 degree, no ac, no cooling pad, not raised the back of the pc, sitting on a normal desk)..probably mine it's a specific bad scenario, my cpu comes from factory really bad pasted, when repaste it, acer tech show me that was half dry and half clean from paste::

    ps. skree nn m ero accorto eri tu ;D ci sentiamo su steam

  • ciobanucos
    ciobanucos Member Posts: 27 Troubleshooter
    I have the same problem. I have Triton 700 and I want to install a linux distro, POP! OS or Ubuntu. But none of them can see the drives during the install. How can I accomplish this?
  • Commodore_1995#
    Commodore_1995# ACE Posts: 98,322 Trailblazer
    What version of linux ubuntu do you want to install? 19.04? Have you tried deactivating the nvidia card with the command cmd nouveau.modeset = 0?
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  • ciobanucos
    ciobanucos Member Posts: 27 Troubleshooter
    egydiocoelho said:
    What version of linux ubuntu do you want to install? 19.04? Have you tried deactivating the nvidia card with the command cmd nouveau.modeset = 0?
    What does nvidia have to do with Ubuntu USB not seeing any SSD? Basically when I try to install any ubuntu distros, is says no disks found except the USB
  • Melvin_Yesudas
    Melvin_Yesudas Member Posts: 1 New User
    The year 2020, Still waiting for the fix. Has anyone succeeded?
  • xapim
    xapim ACE Posts: 7,253 Pathfinder
    edited September 2020
    Melvin_Yesudas this thread is dead theres no point in reviving it i suggest if you have any issues to open your own thread with your issues and to reply to this thread unlocked bios will never happen neither from acer neither any other manufacturer so those who mod it do it at your own risk of completely bricking the machines permanently


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