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The official list is really funny. The two boards that I mentioned are on it. Most of the boards there do not have a BIOS more recent than early 2002, about a year before the Nehemiah was released. For an even funnier read you should check out the Via approved list of chipsets supporting the C3. On ...

An MSI 694T Pro, with AMI BIOS. I ordered a DFI board with Award BIOS that also supports the older C3 but not the Nehemiah core.

It's interesting that Via sells these CPUs in socket 370 format, but I don't know of any socket 370 motherboard that supports them. Via's own EPIA-M series motherboards ...

Maybe I was going about it the wrong way when I tried to find microcode. The motherboards and BIOS that I am working with already have support for an earlier Via C3 processor. But they don't recognize the new core, and the CPU is not properly initialized. The CPU with the new core runs but ...

Appears to (not) work in the same way. On Tmod's forum, it was posted that I can't extract it becuase the information is not stored as a cpucode module. What about reading it from the copy in the CMOS - can anyone give me a pointer to doing that ?

I'm having a hard time extracting the microcode from this board with Award BIOS, using CBROM215. Here's what I try, and when I get done there isn't any file named cpucode.exe.

[C:\BIOS]CBROM215.EXE i010010f.bin /d
CBROM V2.15 (C)Award Software 2001 All Rights Reserved.

******** i010010f.bin BIOS ...

I added RAID support to this BIOS using conventional utilities, is there something special about the CPU support ? What about an aftermarket BIOS ?

Yes, that's the one. It's the new rev 5.0 revision.

I would like to (successfully) install a 1GHz Via C3 - Nehemiah core - in an MSI 6309, aka 694T ver. 5.0. This motherboard already supports the older C3 chip, but when I put this one in, it runs very slowly maybe less than 10% of the expected speed. At POST, the message says:

Via (unknown) 1GHz ...