[Request] Dell Latitude D530 Intel T9x00 Support

[DeathBringer]

I didn't found it yet.

[DeathBringer]

I found new information.

Some quick facts about the Dell Latitude D530:

1. It was the last Dell model to have the 4:3 aspect ratio (square) screen.
2. It supports the T9500 Core 2 Duo, 2.6 GHz, 6Mb Cache, 800 MHz FSB CPU.
3. It accepts 4 Gigabytes of DDR2 667 MHz Ram and has built in X3100 graphics.
4. As a result (for me) it handles and runs Windows 7 Ultimate effortlessly.

Can you contact with him?

[threepot]

If you read more of his posts, at no point does he ever confirm that it really does run a T9500. His has only got a T7700 installed.

I think he is talking myth, and he has not been online since 12 Feb 2012, and only made a total of 7 posts.

His own bench marking test is here http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/568953

I have emailed him via his registered email on a domain name he hosts! I await his reply.

[DeathBringer]

OK. Please make tests with native BIOS A6 & native BIOS A5.

[threepot]

A5 = Will not boot in Multicore mode but will boot in single core. Recognised as "Proc ??? 0676 1.20ghz  Min = 0ghz Max = 0ghz"

A6 same behaviour as above.

Attached are CPUz and hwmonitor reports from A6 bios, HW montior does the same thing for both CPU's

   


  A6-single.txt (Size: 60.98 KB / Downloads: 1)

Bios looks like this in both A5 and A6

   

I must have done 50 cpu swaps on this laptop now!!

[DeathBringer]

Very sad. A6 & A5 BIOS have less CPU checks and I think they can boot dual core...

[DeathBringer]

I have a new idea. Please test my new mod.
Note that this mod haven't correct CPU recognition and SpeedStep initialization.
Update: patched too.

[threepot]

No, will not boot in multicore mode

Shall we give up?

[DeathBringer]

Any visual changes with mod6?
Testing T8100 or T8300 with my latest mod would be helpful. Can you somewhere they lend?

[threepot]

Any visual changes with mod6?

Yes the hard disk drive light does not flash.

Thank you for so much effort and time but I think I'm giving up on this, I'm getting a bit bored of swapping the cpu in and out.

If it was easy it or straight forwards I think you would have patched it in the first few tries.

I wonder if there is some kind of hardware difference between the 45nm and 64nm cpus, or something different with their on chip features.