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April 21st, 2012 11:00
add CPU support to Dell Phoenix Bios
Hi
I have some poweredge 6950 which do not support some socket F opterons ( 8381 HE )
but the same generation poweredge SC1435 do support them.
I think this is only a matter of bios microcode, can someone help me extract the microcode
from SC1435 bios to insert into the poweredge 6950 bios ?
Is there any tools to do that or help ? I found phoenix bios mod tool, but Dell bios seems somewhat differents,
and the tools doesn't recognize .hdr files.
Regards
Nicolas
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theflash1932
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April 21st, 2012 11:00
There are no public BIOS modification tools for Dell BIOS updates.
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April 22nd, 2012 11:00
And to add to theflash1932, the risk of bricking the motherboard is pretty significant. On a server of this age and power, I wouldn't even consider doing something like that yet (maybe in another 3 or 4 years it has become old enough to consider the risk).
salvia
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July 4th, 2012 14:00
Some time ago I did for my Dimension 4700 what you are wanting to do and it worked. I put the CPU microcode for my new CPU into my BIOS (using a hex editor on the .hdr) by replacing one of the 18 existing ones with it and then used DCCU which gave me an .exe that flashed the BIOS.
I also can't open my BIOS' .rom with Phoenix BIOS Editor Pro at all, it always says "No BCPs found!" [:'(]