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

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ccie15672
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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...
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What board are you trying to do this for?
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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.
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So all that will happen is the display will show the actual CPU name/model instead of "unknown"?
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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.
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