Thanks you both.
So I’ll consider Bios downgrading to install a 9th generation cpu.
A question please. would it be possible to swap the 7070 bios instead( /f key) or i will face a corrupt bios also in this case?
Thank you.
Now I think that it’s impossible because of BootGuard
BIOS 1.9.1 still has this block. I’ve just checked.
Hi, is possibile to ad an I9 9900 on Optilex 5060?
Is there a possibility of bringing this to the 5060? (Same board)
Would be happy to provide a dump tonight.
Hello everyone, I need to update the microcode of a 7060 but I cannot find a valid link to download the Intel CSME System Tools v12 r23 - (2020-05-03). Do you know where I can download it? Thanks.
Hello guys !
Happy New Year to you all !
Thanks a lot to @Sleinous , @Lost_N_BIOS and @DeathBringer for this amazing work !
Have you had a chance to extend it to 3060/5060?
I just got a cheap 3060 MT that I am very eager to upgrade to an i9-9900.
After dumping my bios, I managed to do the MMTool insertion of 90EC and 90ED without any issue (dates were right…)
The size of the GUID 17088572-377F-44EF-8F4E-B09FFF46A070 has inflated from 34828 to 65028.
I am not sure if, at the end of the day, @Sleinous tried the MMTool modified firmware he produced or if he only flashed the ucode part provided by @DeathBringer with FPTW
I am ready to flash my modded file (service jumper is on) but I am worried about the FIT part of it mentioned by @Lost_N_BIOS and scared of screwing everything up 
I could try and figure out the right offset to flash the ucode part provided by @DeathBringer but I would still need a confirmation that I am on the right track…
Would you guys care to have look to my patched BIOS file?
Not sure if I am able to share files as I have just registered…
Thanks a lot in advance !
Hi All, Sorry to resurrect this topic. Would anyone have a fulldump of the bios. I have bricked mine trying to update this. I do a fptw64 -bios -d backup. The size I got was about 16MB. Will this alone be enough or will I need the full dump of the whole chip. I can see @Sleinous dump size is about 32MB.
Thanks
Bios region seems to be 16MB, so you need the rest of the firmware- Desc, GbE, ME, too.
What did you do precisely to brick your bios?
I dumped the bios part with fptw64 -bios -d backup.bin .
I was trying to apply the microcode update with fptw64 -a 0x1D20000 -l 0xF0000 -f ucode_2020_04.bin
I completed without any error until I restarted the PC and now it wont post. Just amber blinking away. Corrupt BIOS. Only later did I realise that this was for the older firmwares. Not for the newer ones.
I now only have 16MB of the bios. Do I need the entire bit including the Desc, GbE, ME or just the BIOS part would do?
I cannot dump the Dell Bios with /writehdrfile command to rescue either. The system will not boot to bios recovery. I am waiting for a CH341A hardware flasher to arrive to see if I can flash the backup.bin file to recover. If this does not work I would be grateful if someone could post the 32MB dump or another recovery method,
You don’t need another dump. The first part of the firmware should be fine.
Just read/dump your complete chip with the programmer, check the structure in UEFItooleNE and make at least two a 100% identical dumps!
Which version were the old bios? Post a link to your dumped bios region or attach it here.
The microcode update here only works with older 1.4.2 too. I had 1.18.0. I tried updating the microcode on this. 
without reading the entire thread. I dumped the bios part of 1.18.0 before I ran the code, so it seems like I have that dumped. I will attach a link here soon once I upload to a sharing site.
If both 7060 & 7070 motherboards are identical, wouldn’t it be enough to flash the 7070 bios into the 7060 motherboard?
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Hey dudes,
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)
Any ideas?
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does anyone have a working bios update that will work with a i9-9900t es?
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.
Thanks in advance
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.
The H370 Chipset can support it,
The Socket can support it
Dell never enabled the microcodes in the Bios to enable 9th Gen support