I try to give some new life to this amazing thread. I do have little different interests as the previous guys, but still within the topic.
Recently I crippled the intel ME down to the bare minimung. Thanks to the nice tutorial work here. So here I have a Dell 7050 micro and wondering if the xeon V5 and/or V6 CPU microcode can be flashed AND ecc RAM can be used.
I am unsure if ECC has to be activated within the BIOS or if the must be chosen an other BIOS platform (C236 chipset)
Sorry to necro this post
i read it top to bottom with hopes and dreams due to the mention of the 35w and 65w mobos
I am in dire straights as here in Australia im struggling to track down a 130w Brick to work with the 2 65w i got from ebay (they seller only ever had 90w bricks)
i have purchased a few bricks which all meet spec but there must be something in the dell bricks that it looks for, sadly I can not find any resonably priced “Genuine” bricks after essentially being scammed twice with after market ones
I bit the bullet and bought 2 8500t CPU’s in hopes that reducing the wattage cpu would allow the mobo to accept the 90w genuine adapters i had on hand from the seller to no avail
thanks to you I now know there is a differnt board for the higher wattage cpus which is what i have
was wondedring if its even possible to have the bios from the 35w added to the 65w to have it check for the 90w brick not the 130w as i know this cofiguration will not sturate the 90w brick as i have a 35w board with the 8500t and exact same attached hardware running fine as we sepak
I know this is an Older Topic, However I just acquired a Dell 3060 SFF with an i5-8500 in it and would love to be able to update to a 9th Gen CPU. I already applied the PCIe Gen 3 hack for the NVME drive to get better performance, but I figured if I can get this upgraded to a 9th Gen, the Plex performance of this machine should increase.
H370… but around the web they all say cant support it. Does the bios lack the mcodes?
Present: 906EA 906EB
NOT present: 906EC 906ED
EDIT: Yes we know that the H370 can support it… your issue is being a Dell brand model motherboard and bios.
So why not adding the remaining missing mcodes… since you hacked it already, one more flash/dump shouldn’t stop you. The CFL GOP and vbios are already present also.
Get the motherboard in Service Mode by its jumper (JMP1), dump the bios region and add/replace the mcodes (depending on available volume space), use the correct ME Intel FPTtool to dump/write.
hi,I’ve been following this post for a few days and read all the posts. I saw your follow-up support in bios-mods. I’d like your advice. (I wanted to consult you on bios-mods, but I haven’t been approved for registration and the review process is too slow.)
My machine is also an Optilex 7060 SFF. I noticed that the machine’s label said I7, and I upgraded to the latest BIOS v1.27.0 from the official website. The official website supports 8700 CPU, but when I installed the 8700es (qn8h) on the machine, it wouldn’t light up, the fan ran wildly, and the power indicator flashed 2 or 3 times. I found out on the official website support that it didn’t detect the memory, so I thought there was a problem with the memory. But when I replaced it with i3-8100t, it could boot normally. So the problem seems to be that 8700es (qn8h) is still not supported.
I’ve searched a lot of information and everyone said that the process for 8700es (qn8h) is the same as the official version of 8700. However, it can’t light up on my 7060 SFF. I have a few questions:
Is this a BIOS or CPU problem?
First of all, the CPU problem. 8700es (qn8h) can be lighted up on another b365m motherboard. But I wonder if it’s because of a bug in the es test version? Or is it simply that the q370 motherboard of Optilex 7060 SFF doesn’t have the required microcode added by the official?
Can I solve this problem by flashing in the OptiPlex_7060_1.27.0_ucode.zip that you provided? I’m a beginner, so I apologize if I ask any stupid questions. Thank you.
hi,
According to your request, I have extracted desc.bin and bios.bin. I saw “a specific Intel microcode for a retail or ES/QS CPU” when discussing another post. I checked my CPU “Processor core” in cpu-world: Coffee Lake-S. I saw “906EA Coffee Lake-S, Coffee Lake-S Xeon E (U0)” in the ES post, but I’m not sure if it includes my CPU 8700es (qn8h). If possible, could you help me to add the microcode “906EA Coffee Lake-S, Coffee Lake-S Xeon E (U0)” under “Socket 1151v2 (LGA)” in the ES post to my BIOS? Thank you very much. By the way, where can I learn this tutorial on how to add microcode?
Open an elevated command prompt:
1.1) Navigate to Intel CSME System Tools\Flash Programming Tool\WIN64
1.2) Get a dump of current BIOS via >fptw64.exe -d 7060SFF_bios.bin -bios
Use MMTool to:
3.1) Load and insert 906EC and 906ED to CPU list (use microcode files)
3.2) Save 7060SFF_bios_06ec_06ed.fd
Shutdown the computer.
Put 7060 SFF motherboard in service mode: move jumper to middle pins (near front centre of motherboard under DVD drive).
Reboot. You will see a message and need to ‘retry boot’ to get into Windows.
Open an elevated command prompt
7.1) Navigate to Intel CSME System Tools\Flash Programming Tool\WIN64
7.2) Flash BIOS using >fptw64.exe -f 7060SFF_bios_06ec_06ed.fd -bios
Shutdown
Restore ‘Service Mode’ jumper on motherboard to default.
Sorry for hijack this thread.
Is this method can be apply to dell 3050 micro, cause i can use skylake and kabylake (6th and 7th geb intel cpu).
I tried to dump the bios by clipping method and use automated tool but it failed at finding fpt table and if i flash that bios back. The computer does not boot, it beep and show amber light meaning it cannot find the cpu. Could some one guide me how to do this on dell 3050 micro for coffelake cpu
Thanks the moderator that move my thread to this topic but i think it is different method as dell 3050 micro is not like other bios and the previous topic involve modify dell bios. So i don’t know is this can help me or not.
Hey, just found this thread. I’ve noticed this has only been done with the micros and sff. Did any one tried a mini tower? Not sure if it will be the same process or will need some tweaks?