01-02-2016, 01:40 PM
Hello all!
I'm trying to do the 771 to 775 mod for my dell inspiron 560 replacing the core 2 duo E6700 with a Xeon E5450. I have the all the physical work done, but I am thinking I need to add CPUID codes to my bios to get support for the E5450. I booted the box the first time and got into windows, but windows wasn't recognizing the new CPU in computer properties so I rebooted and checked BIOS. The bios was seeing the cpu correctly so I rebooted, but I've never gotten into windows again, I see the windows logo but no loading animation. After resetting bios to default settings and failed attempts to even reinstall windows (it does the same thing as hard drive boot, windows symbol but no loading be it a windows install disc or usb).I am thinking maybe it is not working because it is missing cpu instruction sets. I've tried to follow guides at this point to mod the bios, but of course the dell bios comes as a .exe and I apparently fail at dos because I can't even get it to extract the rom with /writeromfile command (I get a commandline error when I try). Could anyone help me to mod the A06 bios with the correct microcodes? I know I am out of my depth here so any help is really appreciated.
I'm trying to do the 771 to 775 mod for my dell inspiron 560 replacing the core 2 duo E6700 with a Xeon E5450. I have the all the physical work done, but I am thinking I need to add CPUID codes to my bios to get support for the E5450. I booted the box the first time and got into windows, but windows wasn't recognizing the new CPU in computer properties so I rebooted and checked BIOS. The bios was seeing the cpu correctly so I rebooted, but I've never gotten into windows again, I see the windows logo but no loading animation. After resetting bios to default settings and failed attempts to even reinstall windows (it does the same thing as hard drive boot, windows symbol but no loading be it a windows install disc or usb).I am thinking maybe it is not working because it is missing cpu instruction sets. I've tried to follow guides at this point to mod the bios, but of course the dell bios comes as a .exe and I apparently fail at dos because I can't even get it to extract the rom with /writeromfile command (I get a commandline error when I try). Could anyone help me to mod the A06 bios with the correct microcodes? I know I am out of my depth here so any help is really appreciated.