[REQUEST] Kentsfield support on 945PL-S3

[lug]

Hello,

I recently found a motherboard that was in my first PC - Gigabyte 945PL-S3 (rev. 1.0) - I know this motherboard doesn't officially suport any Quads, but after checking with at least 3 different Q6600s - it recognized every of them perfectly fine (I mean - it boots with 1.8 GHz clock due to FSB800, but it recognizes them as Q6600 and many other CPUs is doing pretty fine with FSB near 1200, so at least stock CPU's performance might be achieveable), but the BIOS freezes before disk recognition - Patch ID field shows basically 0000, so I assume it's BIOS incompatibility and rather than hardware one.

I use the last BIOS for this mobo - F6.

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/B...-s3_f6.exe

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-945PL-S3-rev-10 - the motherboard specs

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/...tions.html - Q6600 specs

https://imgur.com/a/qmjOhQf - booting with Q6600

[DeathBringer]

At first try to find other motherboard with 945PL chipset and support of quad core CPU.

[lug]

At first try to find other motherboard with 945PL chipset and support of quad core CPU.

From what I know - none of 945PL mobos support Core 2 Quads.

[DeathBringer]

So you can't use your Q6600.

[lug]

So you can't use your Q6600.

Oh, that's a shame. Not a problem though, I still have 2 P45 mobos.

Thanks for help anyway