From: Laurence Darby <ldarby@tuffmail.com>
To: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Core 2 Duo E8400 stepping 6 not recognised
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:12:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080720011251.51aa29f4.ldarby@tuffmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717001145.122c97b7.ldarby@tuffmail.com>
Laurence Darby wrote:
>
> The motherboard is gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R, chipset is Intel G33 ICH9
>
> What can I do to get this working?
>
It turns out the answer was to upgrade the bios, the MB came with
version F5, the latest is F7h:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=2535
which says it's an update for Wolfdale cores...
It's possible to do it from linux userland, which was a pleasant
suprise to me, using flashrom from coreboot
( http://www.coreboot.org/Flashrom#Installation ), see also:
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-July/036747.html
Cheers,
Laurence
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-20 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-16 23:11 Core 2 Duo E8400 stepping 6 not recognised Laurence Darby
2008-07-17 12:44 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-07-18 12:50 ` Laurence Darby
2008-07-20 0:12 ` Laurence Darby [this message]
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