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From: Paul on 8 Mar 2006 14:52 In article <nQCPf.17160$Eu4.10372(a)fe08.news.easynews.com>, no(a)spam.invalid (d2431) wrote: > Thank you, Paul, > > Do you think BOTH PCs will work (no error message) by swapping the cpu > from different pcs? ?The motherboard is made by Compaq and I do not > know how to find the model? ?The bios is already updated to v.109 ( > 686o1 rom) and still gives the error message. ?Can you help me to get > rid of this? ?Any info very much appreciated. Remember that the BIOS is responding to the CPU used. The support inside the BIOS file, determines the response you will get. You have two computers. Do they use the same BIOS ? If they do, then moving the processor that has microcode "4" to the other computer, should cause the microcode version to again be "4" (or greater, depending on whether the Microsoft microcode loader is present in the OS). But if we are talking about different computers, the microcode is contained in the BIOS. The computer that gets the "4", has version "4" microcode in its BIOS file. It is possible that moving the processor from one computer to the other, will still give you a "0", if the Compaq BIOS has no microcode for that family of processor. I did make a slight bit of progress with the Compaq BIOS. I downloaded SP23361.EXE from HP. Executing it, it requests a floppy. The SP23361.EXE extracts files and writes them to the floppy. On the floppy is "ROMPAQ.EXE". In Google, I found the recipe "rompaq /D OCTAPU10.109 output.bin". That takes the OCTAPU10 input file, and decompresses it to output.bin. The output.bin file is 524288 bytes, which is 512KB and would be one of the standard sizes for a BIOS file. I opened the output.bin with a hex editor, and unfortunately, the BIOS appears to be proprietary, and is not an Award/AMI/Phoenix. There is boot block code at the end of the file, in roughly the same place as a standard BIOS, but the "branding" inside the file only mentions Compaq. Whether the CTMC program can add microcode to the BIOS, really depends on whether the Intel specified BIOS hook has been coded in the BIOS. My experience is, an Award BIOS has the hook code, and AMI doesn't. At least CTMC complains if I try to use CTMC on an AMI BIOS. Now, what are the odds that Compaq's proprietary BIOS implements the Intel BIOS hook, and does it the same way as Award ? Probably pretty slim odds. So, you can Google for CTMC... CTMC won't hurt anything, so should be safe to experiment with. You need a donor BIOS to get a 2KB microcode file from, and the microcode has to be for the exact family code of the processor you are working with. The Intel identification utility can probably give you the family code of your existing processor. Then you need to find an Award BIOS from the right "era", to find the microcode in question and extract it. Have fun :-) http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus/msg/4441ec476f864e9b?dmode=source Paul
From: d2431 on 9 Mar 2006 16:33
Parul, thank you very much for your time and help. Is that possible for you to list step by step how to fix this? I know I might ask for too much, but as you know I know little about 'programming'. I believe following the right procedures I can fix it. Thanks again. |