GA-8I865GME-775 (rev. 1.x)

[Jorge Ben Urso]

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I work in a group for old computers revamp to donate to public schools and poor kids in Brazil.
We do what we can, using parts of many computer in order to built a few good enough computers.

It would be posible to add "Cor 2 Duo" or "Pentium Dual-Core" support to the GIGABYTE GA-8I865GME-775 (rev. 1.x) board ?

It seems further releases of GA-8I865GME-775 do have support for these CPUs.

BIOS in GIGABYTE site:
https://www.gigabyte.com/br/Motherboard/...rt-dl-bios

Best regards,
J.B.Urso

[DeathBringer]

Post a screenshot of third (Mainboard) tab of CPU-Z.
Have you suitable hardware programmer to read/write BIOS chip?

[Jorge Ben Urso]

See attached the CPU-Z print screen.
I have one PENTIUM D E5400 and a CORE 2 DUO E7500. To use any one would be fine.

Unfortunatelly, I don't have a hardware programmer to read/write BIOS chip.
The BIOS has the Q-FLASH utility, but it try to read a FLOPPY !!!

The motherboard is a GA-8I865GME-775 and at the corner of the board is printed "REV.1.1".

Thank you in advance.

[DeathBringer]

This revision of motherboard hasn't support for Conroe CPUs.
It's not BIOS problem, but VRM.

[Jorge Ben Urso]

Thank you for our support, DeathBringer.
Best regards,
JBUrso