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From: Laurence Darby <ldarby@tuffmail.com>
Subject: Re: Core 2 Duo E8400 stepping 6 not recognised
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:12:51 +0100
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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