Pegatron M2N68-LA/HP Narra(2)-GL8E: CPU Upgrade

[ebbemonke]

hello, just found this thread... i am in the same boat, was this bios mod successful? cannot locate the file in bios repository...

[cuttius]

Hey guys was working on the M2N68-LA (Narra2) board to try to get it to be able to support the Phenom X4 9650 and was hoping that you guys could give me a hand. When I put the chip in it just stayed on a black screen. I know that the Phenom X4 9650 is a 95w and the HP page says that this board will support 89w, but I just figured I would try.

I was going to try to modded bios that you guys made for the Nettle2. But from what I can tell the super-io chip is different, even tho the chipset is the same. This does make a difference right?

Then I started reading and was thinking that if I maybe change the agesa it would help. The one in the narra2 is 2.8.11 (I think? 11 08 02 was the number I saw after AMD!GESA). If I do that do I also have to change the CPUCODE.BIN, right? I was going to maybe try to pull the agesa and cpu micro code from another bios, maybe the Narra 3 board. The Narra 2 and Narra 3 have the same layout from what I can tell. They have the same chipset, north and south bridge, and super io. Narra 2 bios and Narra 3 bios. Does this seem like a good route to follow? Or should I try to work with the Nettle 2 bios and try to pull from there?

Any help or ideas would be very welcome. Thanks

[weespid]

hello i bought an deneb quad core 2.5ghz closest retail chip I can find in the phenom II 905E here is an link to the cpuz page after an fresh cmos reset from an different board http://valid.x86.fr/pf49zu

-bios link
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software9/COL21072/pv-55440-1/sp37190.exe

was looking at the foxcon MCP61 and molded abit ( https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-HP-MCP61PM-HM-Nettle2-5-27-With-Unlocked-Overclocking-Options ) as it has the same chip set MCP61 and these are know for unlocking all boards but flashing using this command awdflash M613Z_19.BIN /py /sn /f /cc /cd /cp /wb /r gives the error unknown flash type.

-whats happens: does not post no output to monitor no beep error codes ( does the same thing with an x4 965 BE but that is an 125w part but that is expected to not work )

-screenshot from aida64>motherboard>cpuid
N/A as it wont post cpuz form different mother board is above.
-CPU spec code N/A

thank you people for all your help this has been an great resource for me so far just truing to get this to work for an uber budget secondary gaming rig.