12-07-2018, 08:59 PM
hello, i'm new here
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to the point then
while digging around my work, i found one fujitsu siemens computer that was going to the scrapyard, motherboard was toasted, all the rest of the system was ok so i bought the cheapest motherboard on local ebay that would fit those components and case. later i discovered i should have pay 3 times as much for the board revision that would support what i want to do with it, but now i am stuck. not that it isn't possible to buy the newer revision board, because they are not even that expensive, but because my pride does not alow me to just let it go.
so i was wondering how not to brick it while still having some fun moding it?
board in question is fujitsu siemens d2724-a with the latest bios updated via oficial patch from rev 02 to newest 08
board i want to make out of it is d2904-a or rather i want to put in bios from that board in my board
reason for doing it, one support c2 core stepping, the other support c3 stepping and have some more microcodes, they didn't change the board design that much, chipsets are the same, bios flash chip is the same, cpu socket is the same and so on
i have found this thread on the google search https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads...ors.58787/
it describes exactly what and how to do it, only i can't seems to find the right tools for doing so
decompressing tool makes mostly empty garbage flash files, and flashrom program is somehow hard to download, i was only able to get outdated version. and with that version i am almost able to read my bios from the chip only it is totaly different inside than the one i generated from the same bios file downloaded from fujitsu, not even different revision board
i remember days when flashing bioses was easy, bios files were uncompressed, if you bricked your board you only needed similar bios chip to boot up from floppy or board you could program anything and you were set
so for starters i wold like to ask for help in understanding the procedure described in link i put above, or what i did wrong. Later i would like to ask for sources where i can download dos version of flashbios program, preferable in current revision, because buildbot on their site seems to be down, at least for me.
kind of shows right?
to the point then
while digging around my work, i found one fujitsu siemens computer that was going to the scrapyard, motherboard was toasted, all the rest of the system was ok so i bought the cheapest motherboard on local ebay that would fit those components and case. later i discovered i should have pay 3 times as much for the board revision that would support what i want to do with it, but now i am stuck. not that it isn't possible to buy the newer revision board, because they are not even that expensive, but because my pride does not alow me to just let it go.
so i was wondering how not to brick it while still having some fun moding it?
board in question is fujitsu siemens d2724-a with the latest bios updated via oficial patch from rev 02 to newest 08
board i want to make out of it is d2904-a or rather i want to put in bios from that board in my board
reason for doing it, one support c2 core stepping, the other support c3 stepping and have some more microcodes, they didn't change the board design that much, chipsets are the same, bios flash chip is the same, cpu socket is the same and so on
i have found this thread on the google search https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads...ors.58787/
it describes exactly what and how to do it, only i can't seems to find the right tools for doing so
decompressing tool makes mostly empty garbage flash files, and flashrom program is somehow hard to download, i was only able to get outdated version. and with that version i am almost able to read my bios from the chip only it is totaly different inside than the one i generated from the same bios file downloaded from fujitsu, not even different revision board
i remember days when flashing bioses was easy, bios files were uncompressed, if you bricked your board you only needed similar bios chip to boot up from floppy or board you could program anything and you were set
so for starters i wold like to ask for help in understanding the procedure described in link i put above, or what i did wrong. Later i would like to ask for sources where i can download dos version of flashbios program, preferable in current revision, because buildbot on their site seems to be down, at least for me.