Dell - Phoenix/EFI Manual Mod Thread

Discussion in 'BIOS Mod Requests. Post Requests Only' started by ssvetec, Jul 31, 2009.

  1. LLStarks

    LLStarks MDL Member

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    i honestly have no idea what it adds over A10, a changelog doesn't exist

    the bios is from 2007 yet was never released outside of the technician bios cd

    i heard it shipped it with newer motherboard revisions for 640m/e1405
     
  2. avk02

    avk02 MDL Novice

    May 29, 2011
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    Any one got a working link to the Inspiron 1721 mod?
    Cant find any working links! Thanks in advance.
     
  3. Apokrif

    Apokrif MDL Addicted

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    I’ve never done it, but it should be piece of cake job for Andy tool.
    IMO, all we have to do it is to extract CPU microcode module from any of the latest BIOS and replace it our BIOS. I guess, it’s completely independent module - nothing else needs to be updated with it.
    If somebody knowledgeable could put a little tutorial together - everybody will appreciate it. :)

    One more thing to think about:
    Is there a way to parse CPU microcode to determine what CPUs are supported to make sure we add what we want and don’t drop out current CPU by mistake? :confused:
     
  4. Radeon24

    Radeon24 MDL Novice

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    The post say only "Unsupported processor(s), system halted !", and a blinking cursor...
    I can only shut down the server.
    But I found a "solution" : I downgraded the bios from A06 to A03 and it boot ! Processors are quite good detected, just say "3,33ghz dual core, L3 cache : unknow", and after I have a warning message who say that microcode of processor isn't updated, but after the system boot normally...