Hello to all. Sorry for necropost but it seems your forum most reliable.
I've got an old pc(not my main pc) - Compaq Presario (CQ5022RU) with M2N78-LA. 10 days ago i buy phenom 9850 from aliexpress, as the manual says dat its maximum for this mb. Today i got this processor and when i plug it in and poweron a saw unsupported cpu message and computer shut down.
Next i boot it and fast press F2 then my grub loader appear and i boot my gentoo linux.
lscpu tell me that i have phenom 9850 processor.
then i start googling and find your forum. i ve read all this thread and couple of others.
I ve formated my usb 8gb to fat32 with rufus(
https://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale), with creating bootable FreeDos(
http://www.freedos.org/download/ [
Boot floppy ]). Then i make folder BOOT in the root of usb drive and download AFUDOS.exe
ive booted from usb and make this inside dos:
cd BOOT
dir
AFUDOS /oold.rom
(this cmd save your current bios to old.rom file)
then i downloaded hp bios exe dont remember filename_of.exe unpack the 1mb file and rename it to HPBIOS.ROM - but this attempt failed when i tryed to update bios from afudos.
then ive downloaded the VIO5.29.bin from 1st page of this thread and rename it to HPBIOS.ROM (in the boot directory of usb)
then i simply make:
afudos /iHPBIOS.ROM
it tells me: make force or make optimal and i press "A" key to make optimal.
After this i got my bios updated sucsessfuly and now its forking fine this new phenom 9850
if u need a copy of my old bios - here ive got
https://yadi.sk/d/qoET9RTH3LEezr
and this is bios from 1st page of theread dat succesfully worked with my new proc
https://yadi.sk/d/QdRfLrTo3LEf5Y
P.S. u can say thanks to me by bitcoin: 15YqzKRC5TE7MAyvCPHcoqHyUD6uLe2koQ