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02-03-2010, 09:40 PM
I have a request for wifi modifcation on this board, but since this seems to be the place to ask anything and all things BIOS, I'll give this a shot.
My Compaq C762NR came with a dual core pentium 1.73 Ghz processor. I changed it out for a t7200 2.0ghz C2D which supports VT-X. Naturally, the original processor did not and I believe HP never had any intentions to support that feature of chips that it put in its CTO line of Compaq C700 (or HP DVxxx?) laptops. The BIOS is pretty basic and certainly does not address VT-X for reasons I have suggested.
I have long been intrigued by marcan's work over at http://marcansoft.com/blog/2009/06/enabl...ire-8930g/ for Acer laptops with similarly locked down BIOSes. Since my model is somewhat in HP's CTO category and I can even slap a t8400 in here, it begs the question of where the VT-X feature and its lock bit are mentioned in the bios itself.
I spoke with marcan and, upon intial inspection, he looked and seemed to think it was actually in the BIOS code itself and not accessible for modular modification-unlike Acer's Insyde implementation. I propose to the admins of this forum to investigate enabling VT-X for all c700 CTO machines for users looking to get the most fo their CPU upgrades.
BIOS located at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp41001-41500/sp41279.exe
I look forward to hearing your opinion on this and thanks for doing what you do.
zac
My Compaq C762NR came with a dual core pentium 1.73 Ghz processor. I changed it out for a t7200 2.0ghz C2D which supports VT-X. Naturally, the original processor did not and I believe HP never had any intentions to support that feature of chips that it put in its CTO line of Compaq C700 (or HP DVxxx?) laptops. The BIOS is pretty basic and certainly does not address VT-X for reasons I have suggested.
I have long been intrigued by marcan's work over at http://marcansoft.com/blog/2009/06/enabl...ire-8930g/ for Acer laptops with similarly locked down BIOSes. Since my model is somewhat in HP's CTO category and I can even slap a t8400 in here, it begs the question of where the VT-X feature and its lock bit are mentioned in the bios itself.
I spoke with marcan and, upon intial inspection, he looked and seemed to think it was actually in the BIOS code itself and not accessible for modular modification-unlike Acer's Insyde implementation. I propose to the admins of this forum to investigate enabling VT-X for all c700 CTO machines for users looking to get the most fo their CPU upgrades.
BIOS located at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp41001-41500/sp41279.exe
I look forward to hearing your opinion on this and thanks for doing what you do.
zac
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