HP Pro 3300 & 3400 (H61): Upgrade to Ivy Bridge

[DeathBringer]

I need to look at both dumps.

[acidmonkey]

I need to look at both dumps.

Ok when i get a both dumps i will send you. ty

[miant]

Hello, I need your help with something. I have an HP Pro 3400, but it doesn't support an i5-3470 CPU. After searching the forum, I replaced the 4MB BIOS chip on the motherboard with an 8MB one.

If your motherboard is  Cupertino2_H61_uATX 1.02, there is no need to replace bios chip and use HP 3500 bios dump. The BIOS from the Foxconn H61MXE motherboard is fully compatible and works flawlessly without any restrictions.

[Hooper]

I have flashed the bb3f1p13nvme.bin bios to my hp pro 3300 board using CH341. I had trouble getting the board to boot up. The fans turn on at max speed, but no post. I removed the coin batt and installed clr cmos jumper and left overnight. Usually, the board boots up after doing this and I can access bios. Sometimes I have to clear cmos for longer periods to get it to boot. However, the problem soon returns for example after saving changes in the bios.
It has a new coin batt and the board worked fine previously, so not sure what the problem is. I am running i3-2120 and i7-3770 cpus. Any thoughts? Thanks

[acidmonkey]

I have flashed the bb3f1p13nvme.bin bios to my hp pro 3300 board using CH341. I had trouble getting the board to boot up. The fans turn on at max speed, but no post. I removed the coin batt and installed clr cmos jumper and left overnight. Usually, the board boots up after doing this and I can access bios. Sometimes I have to clear cmos for longer periods to get it to boot. However, the problem soon returns for example after saving changes in the bios.
It has a new coin batt and the board worked fine previously, so not sure what the problem is. I am running i3-2120 and i7-3770 cpus. Any thoughts? Thanks

 try one more time to flash bios file. I usually after flashing is done i open again same dump file and then i do verify. Program will verify is same file flashed with a one that y open. I use same bios file and all works good.

[Hooper]

OK, I will give that a try, thanks.

[acidmonkey]

OK, I will give that a try, thanks.

Hey. Did y do something? I test yestrday all day my PC that i have and tbh i start to get also some problem. After i turn of computer spining ventilators on/off like trying to show picture and then nothing restarting,removing cable from power supply sometimes post sometimes no.

I try few diferent bios version and i found one that works good. Dont have support for nvme but boot every time and for now i dont see any problem.
Let me know if y need dump file in case if y dont need nvme this one will work just fine.

[ngocthienta]

You guys should also try the BIOS from Angxun X7-VB from this link (http://www.angxunmb.com/web/userfiles/do...5-8-11.rar). Take your stock BIOS (4MB) and just replace the new BIOS Region from the Angxun file using UEFITool 0.28 (keep the original ME Region). The BIOS has support for all LGA1155 CPUs, NVME, Secure Boot and even TPM2.0 (through an external module connected to the LPC_DEBUG header). The only issues it might have are lack of sleep mode and usable PS/2 ports.

[Hooper]

So, I reflashed the Foxconn bios to my bios chip (Erase/Flash/Verify) and experienced similar but slightly different problems with the bios. So I suspect the chip was bad and flashed a new chip. I also made extra sure that each leg of the eprom was properly soldered to the pad below. Seems to be working reliably now. Big thank you to Acidmonkey for providing this mod. Cheers

[Hooper]

It seems I spoke too soon. Next morning I have no boot. I am trying to reset the bios to get it to boot. But in my case, this Foxconn bios does not seem to be stable with my Cupertino2_H61_uATX 1.02 board.