08-13-2012, 11:54 PM
Hey, I've followed the guides to add support myself by extracting microcodes from donor BIOS'es listed below, but I've had no luck getting a Celeron D 325 2.53ghz 533fsb Prescott core to boot. The board won't enable/display video, beep, or spin up the hard drives. (When I use a 1.6ghz Northwood core P4 it works, hard drives spin up immediately when I press the power button.)
http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Ho...-Microcode
It is very likely I didn't do something correctly. The steps used were 1) make empty notepad file with "certain" name 2) run command on donor BIOS to get ___kB file that matched "uncompressed" filesize for (sp) NCCPUCODE entry -- but NOT Cpu Microcode entry 3) Run command on the Target BIOS with file read-only to prevent overwriting 4) confirm the new NCCPUCODE size on Target BIOS using /d then flash, swap CPUs and test.
Abit is long since dead, so I'm in a bind. Here are some donor BIOS'ed I've tried using the "CBROM195.EXE donor.bios /nc_cpucode blank_ncpucode.bin" trick.
Donors attempted:
Gigabyte fix an Admin made for a similar issue - http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Ad...Award-Bios
ECS 865G-M Deluxe (V5.0) - http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product...tailID=320&CategoryID=1&DetailName=Feature&MenuID=18&LanID=0
Gigabyte GA-8IG1000MK (Rev 1.x) - http://ee.gigabyte.com/products/page/mb/...1000mk_1x/
MSI 865GM3 - http://www.msi.com/product/mb/865GM3-LS--FIS.html
Source bios:
IS-10 is1220 "BIOS release 2.0 for IS-10, IS-20" - it's a bit hard to find, but I've attached it to this post. If this is changed at all, you can find it and patch notes here:
http://pross.org.uk/Abit/bios/is-10/
I only have tried using the CBROM195.EXE method listed in the guide, and I think I should defer to an expert. If anyone can help, I would be very grateful.
I'm fairly certain this is the processor: "Dimension B110 Series, Intel Celeron D Processor 325 (2.53GHz) and 256K cache"
Edit: The Abit test results show it supports a 19x133 multiplier for 2.53ghz.... but for P4's. I have no idea why the Celeron D 19x133 isn't working.
http://web.archive.org/web/2006093001504.../index.php
Edit 2: All Hail Archive.org! Here are the technical specs:
http://web.archive.org/web/2004042223231...NAME=IS-10&fMTYPE=Socket+478&pPRODINFO=Specifications
http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Ho...-Microcode
It is very likely I didn't do something correctly. The steps used were 1) make empty notepad file with "certain" name 2) run command on donor BIOS to get ___kB file that matched "uncompressed" filesize for (sp) NCCPUCODE entry -- but NOT Cpu Microcode entry 3) Run command on the Target BIOS with file read-only to prevent overwriting 4) confirm the new NCCPUCODE size on Target BIOS using /d then flash, swap CPUs and test.
Abit is long since dead, so I'm in a bind. Here are some donor BIOS'ed I've tried using the "CBROM195.EXE donor.bios /nc_cpucode blank_ncpucode.bin" trick.
Donors attempted:
Gigabyte fix an Admin made for a similar issue - http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Ad...Award-Bios
ECS 865G-M Deluxe (V5.0) - http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product...tailID=320&CategoryID=1&DetailName=Feature&MenuID=18&LanID=0
Gigabyte GA-8IG1000MK (Rev 1.x) - http://ee.gigabyte.com/products/page/mb/...1000mk_1x/
MSI 865GM3 - http://www.msi.com/product/mb/865GM3-LS--FIS.html
Source bios:
IS-10 is1220 "BIOS release 2.0 for IS-10, IS-20" - it's a bit hard to find, but I've attached it to this post. If this is changed at all, you can find it and patch notes here:
http://pross.org.uk/Abit/bios/is-10/
I only have tried using the CBROM195.EXE method listed in the guide, and I think I should defer to an expert. If anyone can help, I would be very grateful.
I'm fairly certain this is the processor: "Dimension B110 Series, Intel Celeron D Processor 325 (2.53GHz) and 256K cache"
Edit: The Abit test results show it supports a 19x133 multiplier for 2.53ghz.... but for P4's. I have no idea why the Celeron D 19x133 isn't working.
http://web.archive.org/web/2006093001504.../index.php
Edit 2: All Hail Archive.org! Here are the technical specs:
http://web.archive.org/web/2004042223231...NAME=IS-10&fMTYPE=Socket+478&pPRODINFO=Specifications