ZOTAC ZBOX MI551 7th Generation Intel Support (i5-7600)

[jbm11208]

Hi,
I am looking to upgrade my ZOTAC ZBOX MI551 from an i5-6400T to an i5-7600. It currently sits at a black screen with the CPU installed. Attached are the original BIOS and a possible donor BIOS from the similar next generation model that supports 7th generation processors, the MI552.

[DeathBringer]

Post a screenshot of Mainboard tab of CPU-Z.

[jbm11208]

Post a screenshot of Mainboard tab of CPU-Z.

https://imgur.com/lftMTiU
Here is an Imgur link to it since I couldn't get the photo to upload for some reason

[DeathBringer]

Try to flash BIOS from MI552 by a hardware programmer.

[jbm11208]

Try to flash BIOS from MI552 by a hardware programmer.

I have before and got a blank screen, but my programmer sometimes doesn't flash correctly so I will try again. one difference is that the MI551 uses DDR3L while I believe the MI552 uses DDR4, so that may cause issues. Will report back with the results

[jbm11208]

I flashed it, it verified successfully and I got a beep code I believe has to do with the ram, as I got the same constant beeping when I accidentally installed regular DDR3 when the MI551 only supports DDR3L. It's better than what I got before though, I didn't even get any beeps before.

[DeathBringer]

Try to extract from MI552-firmware BIOS-region only. But use ME-region from MI551-firmware.

[jbm11208]

Try to extract from MI552-firmware BIOS-region only. But use ME-region from MI551-firmware.

What tool should I use to go about doing that?

[DeathBringer]

Try to extract from MI552-firmware BIOS-region only. But use ME-region from MI551-firmware.

What tool should I use to go about doing that?

Use any hexadecimal editor.
Or try to flash my mod.

[jbm11208]

Try to extract from MI552-firmware BIOS-region only. But use ME-region from MI551-firmware.

What tool should I use to go about doing that?

Use any hexadecimal editor.
Or try to flash my mod.

Unfortunately the mod did not work, same beeping issue. Could it be a different issue? the flash chip verified correctly, so that doesn't seem to be an issue.