ASUS P2B BIOS 1014.003 not recognizing Tualatin processor

[seabrook]

I have an ASUS P2B Rev. 1.02 mainboard that I'm trying to upgrade to a Celeron Tualatin 1.4 GHz processor. Its CPU ID is 6B4. Unfortunately the highest processor ID the last BIOS that ASUS released for the P2B (1014 beta 3) only recoginizes is 6B1 which is an older stepping of the 1.4 GHz Celeron. Does anyone know how to update a BIOS with a new cpu microcode file? I'm a bit over my head on this one and my only other choice is to buy a slower processor in hopes of the BIOS recoginizing it. Thanks.

[Denniss]

Just for Info :
Do you have an adapter card with it's own voltage regulator ?
If not the Rev 1.02 has 1.8V as minimum VCore and this seems a little high for Tualatin

[seabrook]

I'm using a Powerleap product (PL-iP3/T) which has it's own power regulator. It's configured to deliver 1.5 volts. I've also tried with a small boost to 1.55 volts with no improvement.

[janpopan]

Maybe apple_rom's tool?

MfG

Jan

[apple_rom]

>Maybe apple_rom's tool?
Yes, my patcher can this to do (it know about "Asus"-format for cpucode.bin). But try with last version (now - http://rom.by/Award/patcher/bp-4rc_C.rar). In the directory with patched file must be "cbrom.exe" (http://rom.by/Award/patcher/cbrom.rar), "lha.exe" (http://rom.by/Award/patcher/lha.rar) and "reall.cod" (http://rom.by/Award/patcher/real_microcodes.rar).

adding:
rom.by now not working - try k6-2.narod.ru

[seabrook]

Right on! BIOS error message is now gone! Thank you!!

I do have one question. In item 6 below what is the problem
and how do you request the fix for it?

Here's the report output from BIOS_patcher:

BIOS_Patcher ver. 4.0_RC.C from "Second_Hope utils".
Warning! Recommended for power-users!

Found 2Mbit BIOS (4.5x)!

Warning - ASUS BIOS!

1. New CPU Support : -> fixed.
2. P3-detect error : not found.
3. New Koeffs Support : not found.
4. 32Gb-problem(32g) : not found.
5. Some HDD detect-problem : -> fixed.
6. "MB"/"GB" string search : not request to fixed.
9. Error display Freq>999MHz : not found.
10.Error display Koefs>9.5x : not found.
11.New Stepping Support : -> fixed.
12.Tualatin L2-init error : not found.
13.New Freq in Setup open : not found.

14.Set "Y" as default on exit: -> fixed.

UDMA for "big"-HDD on UDMA33_only_MB fix: not found.

CBROM V2.07 (C)Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved.
[CPUCODE] ROM is releaseCBROM V2.07 (C)Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved.
Adding modul.tmp 22.5%
CBROM V2.07 (C)Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved.
Adding cpucode.bin 50.7%
Warning! BootBlock was changed! Flashing BIOS only WITH BootBlock!

[edwin]

you will have to excuse apple_rom's use of the English language. What it means is no fix needed.

[apple_rom]

>you will have to excuse apple_rom's use of the English language. What it means is no fix needed.
It`s true. Sorry for my bad engish...

[stonent]

Great utility! I updated all of my bioses with it