Dell XPS 8900 bios mod - Requesting Kaby Lake compatibility! (Intel 7th Gen)

[Dragzilla66]

Dell XPS 8900 motherboards are locked to only work with Skylake CPUs (Intel 6th gen processors). The socket is an LGA 1151 which should be compatible to work with Kaby Lake CPUs (Intel 7th gen processors). Would it be possible to modify the latest Dell bios to unlock this restriction on these motherboards? I have an i7 6700K currently in use with this Dell XPS 8900 that I recently upgraded from an i7 6700. Before this I tried putting an i7 7700K on the socket and the Dell XPS 8900 refused to boot up with this CPU, even with the latest bios update installed. Dell has purposely put this limitation on these Skylake motherboards to make you buy their Intel 200 series chipset PCs and by now their much newer high-spec PCs. There is absolutely no reason why they couldn't allow Kaby Lake CPUs to work on them because Kaby Lake CPUs are made backwards compatible with Z170 chipsets!

(I do not have a Hardware Programmer! I do have a spare motherboard though. I will also wait for others on this site to try out the mod so they can confirm how it's working with this specific OEM motherboard.)

OEM Motherboard Names: XJ8C4/0XJ8C4/CN-0XJ8C4

Processor Socket: LGA 1151
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1151

Dell XPS 8900 Specs: https://dl.dell.com/manuals/all-products..._en-us.pdf

Dell XPS 8900 Drivers: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/...90/drivers

Dell XPS 8900 System BIOS: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=5vk86&oscode=wt64a&productcode=xps-8900-desktop

Dell BIOS Flash Utility 64 Bit: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=c3tjv&oscode=wt64a&productcode=xps-8900-desktop

   

   

   

[DeathBringer]

There is no simple way to add support of Kaby Lake to this system.

[Dragzilla66]

There is no simple way to add support of Kaby Lake to this system.

Thanks for the answer, Dell is the only one that can unlock it. How unfortunate.