Dear Sir I have Gigabyte GA-965DS3P V3.3 this mobo is LGA 775 now the mobo can use tran to use 771 CPU ( Xeon E5450 E5440 L5420) but the CPU E0 step can not full function ( lost SSE 4.1 & VT ) only C0 step can get full function the GA-EP45C-DS3 Microcode can tran by jetway XBLUE-P43/XBLUE-P43D (BIOS: XBP43A05 ) and then get E0 step full function anyone can help me ? THX
Go to taobao.com and search for "771 775", it's a China-Chinese auction site, but you can still guess where the search bar is and will get the idea when you look at the pics in the search results. It all began with no-name manufacturers in China making G41 motherboards with LGA771 sockets instead of LGA775 sockets. Dissatisfied with the quality of those motherboards, some people began developing and have now successfully developed a sticker that makes LGA771 CPUs signal compatible with LGA775 and therefore usable in most LGA775 motherboards, after cutting off the two plastic tabs on the LGA775 socket that physically prevents the installation of a LGA771 CPU into a LGA775 socket. Some motherboards never expected to work with LGA771 Xeon CPUs and don't have the microcodes to boot them up properly, therefore a BIOS mod is needed in these cases.