Finding out what CPUs are already in UPDATE0.ROM...

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

by **ccie15672** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:32 am

I have update0.rom. I just want to know what CPUs are already listed in there. How can I do this? PBE doesn't tell you, it seems like. CBROM doesn't work on WPH files... so I'm a little lost...

by **edwin** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:48 am

What board are you trying to do this for?

by cp » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:45 pm

just to save you some time: those are just microcode updates. i really don't know why someone thought it would be a clever idea to let the bios load them, since any modern OS will load them anyway (yes, even Windows)!
another important information: microcode updates have nothing to do with the CPU detection and initialization. read: it will not enable support for yet unsupported CPUs.

by **edwin** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:52 am

So all that will happen is the display will show the actual CPU name/model instead of "unknown"?

by **Denniss** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 8:32 pm

edwin wrote:So all that will happen is the display will show the actual CPU name/model instead of "unknown"?

No, the Bios will just load an updated set of fixes for CPU it already knows.