Hp 8510w fix quad core support Q9000 in bios.

[wiktorholas]

Welcome.
This is my first post so please bear with us.

I bought Q9000 C2Q but does not work in the HP 8510w? Why?

I have lastetst bios F.20

Thank you for your response

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[phillofoc]

Looks like a motherboard problem

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-compa...dcore.html

[Lixkote]

Hi everyone, 

I have an HP 8510w mobile workstation and inspired by the VAIO and ThinkPad quad core Q9000 mod, i've decided to try it on this system:
https://vaiolibrary.com/VGN-AW_Quad_Core_Mod


Suprisingly, after doing the pinmod as in the VAIO and ThinkPad tutorials, it actually worked, the 8510w now posts with the Q9000 cpu, there is one problem though...

This issue is that the BIOS seems to not handle 4 cores propely, and upon trying to boot into windows with "Dual Core CPU" option enabled in the BIOS, the system instantly reboots after the windows logo. Windows only boots when only one core is enabled ( "Dual Core CPU" option disabled) but that defeats the purpose of Q9000 cpu....

This exact issue also occured on thinkpads (for example this mod was done on a X200) from my knowledge, but they were able to solve it by just flashing coreboot/libreboot, which is sadly not available for this system..

This laptop uses an Intel PM965 chipset, i'm attaching my current bios which has the whitelist removed.

Okay, i've firgured that its missing microcodes for Quad cpus, but thing is how do we add them?

[DeathBringer]

Make DOS USB-stick (e.g, by Rufus), download and unzip all files for the modded version of CHECKUP7 to this DOS USB-stick.
Boot from this DOS USB-stick and make a photo of the screen with results.

[Lixkote]

Make DOS USB-stick (e.g, by Rufus), download and unzip all files for the modded version of CHECKUP7 to this DOS USB-stick.
Boot from this DOS USB-stick and make a photo of the screen with results.

This gets shown, and then the laptop instantly reboots


   

[DeathBringer]

Have you any suitable hardware programmer to read&flush BIOS?

[Lixkote]

Have you any suitable hardware programmer to read&flush BIOS?

I've uploaded a dump of the bios CHIP here, also i noticed that its 4mb, but from looking in HEX editor, the rest of data is not the bios rom, and the bios itself starts from an offset 310000 and it really is 1mb.

[DeathBringer]

Try to flash this mod.

[Lixkote]

Try to flash this mod.

I flashed, but sadly still cpu name string in bios is empty, and still trying to boot with all the cores enabled in bios results in a reboot after the Windows 10 logo appears...

Like i think no change in behavior

[DeathBringer]

So it isn't microcode issue.