[Request] A8-7680 UEFI Microcode Update for HP Pavilion 23-P149

did you integrate the Video Bios for Carrizo?

Sorry for the (very) late response. I have not updated the VBIOS, do you know of a guide/program to use for that purpose?

Thank-you

@Flow_King

UBU can update to the latest AMD GOP, seems that vBios OROM are the same version.

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With tools like UBU/UEFItool and MMtool u can replace/test other vBios OROM from that A68H or others, at ur own risk.

Thank-you so much :slight_smile:

I will try extracting them from the A68 BIOS, since most of the modules seem compatible with my A88 BIOS from what Iā€™ve seen so far during my experimenting.

Most of my attempts have not bricked my board so far, but I figured out that the AmdAgesaDxeDriver & AmdProcessorInitPeim modules BOTH need to be replaced with ones from the A68 board to function. Updating either of the two without updating the other results in a brick & then have to enter recovery mode to revert back to original.

Iā€™m also wondering now if maybe the CPU temp appears to be high because itā€™s reporting in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius? I calculated 102Ā°F is equal to ~39Ā°C, which is actually close to where I expected the CPU temperature to be.

Anyway, Iā€™ll get back on this once I finish my current projects :wink:

I JUST stumbled across this thread! I am attempting to do EXACTLY what you are! Iā€™m currently running an AMD A10-6700 in this board(f2a88xn-wifi) and purchased the A8-7680 to ā€œupgradeā€ this board as far as it can go. Of course the APU failed to POST. Iā€™ll be following this thread with baited breath!

Hi Cmnore,

Sorry for the late response, Iā€™ve changed jobs recently & donā€™t have much time at the moment. I am still planning on completing this project, Iā€™ve just got to put it on the shelf for a while until I have more time to just sit down & hammer away at it for a few hours.

But, yeah. The 7680 has really good thread performance on 4 physical cores with decent integrated graphics, so it was super obvious that an ITX build with this APU would run like a dream. Just wish the manufacturers didnā€™t turn their backs on it so quickly.

I know Win-Raid is currently working on transitioning to a new platform but if I donā€™t finish this before that happens, PM me & Iā€™ll give you my E-mail to continue our conversation that way. Also, Win-Raid doesnā€™t send me E-mail notifications for thread activity for some reason, but I do get E-mail notifications from PMs.

Anyway, I will make it work one day, I just donā€™t know when that will be.

Thank you for the response! Unfortunately I canā€™t seem to PM you directly. I get an error message when I attempt to ā€œseeā€ your profile. I have subscribed to this thread so Iā€™ll get a notification when you post. If you can somehow PM me? Please do so. Iā€™d love to keep-in-touch on this project!

Iā€™ve picked up aā€¦collection of FM2+ boards, hoping to get the A8-7680 I have to work in literally anything it wasnā€™t meant to.
While itā€™s not exactly a spectacular CPU/APU, the A8-7680 would be super cool to have in a higher end board for some overclocking action.

So far, the Carrizo VBIOS needs adding - Is this possible?
Microcode needs updating. Easy with UBU
AMD AGESA needs updating as well. Perhaps this is why youā€™ve had issues with yours?

With some of the research Iā€™ve done over the past several months, it looked like a few other modules are tied into the AGESA of a board, so perhaps thereā€™s another/more thatā€™d also need to be changed out?

Well, hop aboard :smile: We can certainly use all the knowledge we can gather regarding this issue. Your research is valued, thank-you for commenting your findings. I will look into further modding & testing at a later date, but likely not going to have spare time until winter hits again. The factory has me scheduled for 50h / week for at least the next month :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

On a side note though, I was greeted with a notification Email that you commented on this thread when I checked my Emails today. So itā€™s good to know that Email notifications for thread activity are working now, so I can (hopefully) respond to you guys in a more timely manner.

Iā€™ve put together a modding environment for myself (in a VM) so I can stay more organized with my work, since I kind of lost my place while I was away.

Anyway, I did a side by side comparison of a F2-A68HM-S1 BIOS with my F2-A88XN-WIFI BIOS and found that the module layout is exactly the same ā€“ they both have modules in exactly the same order with exactly the same names & GUIDs. Even the module sizes are similar, some are different by only a couple of bytes. This confirms my suspicion that the 2 chipsets act similarly, though 88X obviously has a nicer feature set.

Iā€™ve gone ahead and made a list of the modules that seem like they may be of interest, but Iā€™m having trouble understanding what some of them are for. The colour coding goes like this:
Cyan = Tested working, necessary for the mod.
Green = Modules to test in next mod.
Yellow = Probably good places to investigate in future mods.
Red = Probably shouldnā€™t touchā€¦
Purple = Not sure.

I will try to get some testing done this weekend. By the way, if I still have that strange issue with the A8-7680 hitting 102Ā°C in the BIOS, I will need someone else with the same motherboard as me to try my image on theirs to see if itā€™s just a bug or a problem with my APU (I did buy it on Ebay :thinking:)

UPDATE:
Yeah, so I did try this mod today. Resulted in a really bad brick, motherboard is quite a mess right now. Couldnā€™t get video output via onboard or even a PCIe video card like I did last time, then the board just completely stopped POSTing altogether. Hoping I can get it back to regular BIOS, but DualBIOS seems to be stuck in some kind of an infinite loop. Or the main BIOS chip is shot, either way Iā€™m not going to be making anymore progress this week.

Hello and sorry for reviving this old post.

Iā€™m currently working on the A8-7680 as part of a retro project.

There are actually BIOS versions from Gigabyte for A88X motherboards. These are not on the website, but they will send them upon request. I have now also asked Asrock. Unfortunately you always have to request a specific model, I would just like to have a list of all the boards where possible.

I got a BIOS from Gigabyte for the A88XM-D3HP, but there seem to be more for other models.

I became aware of this through a post here:

I linked Gigabyteā€™s bios for A88X here in the forum:

Maybe this will help someone, best regards.

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Hi, welcome to the forum!

I am still watching this thread and appreciate any help anyone can offer.

Iā€™ll investigate this a bit when I have a moment. I know it looks like I havenā€™t done any more digging since I cooked my F2-A88XN-WIFI in my last post, but Iā€™ve actually been (slowly) working on this on an ASUS A88XM-PLUS that I looted from some scraps that my local repair shop let me rummage through. The advantage, is that this ASUS board has a socketed BIOS, so Iā€™ve made a master backup now if I ever have a really bad brick again.

Anyway, do you have a copy of any of these ā€œspecialā€ BIOSes? If you canā€™t send it here, please send it to me via a private message. Any model, any manufacturer works, I just need a copy of a BIOS with the super-special-magical EFI module(s) that make the A8-7680 tick. Once I have that, I can cross-reference them with the modules I do have and replicate the mod for any A88 motherboard.

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I couldnā€™t wait, I downloaded the one on the link you provided and it shows promise. Already Iā€™ve located the microcode for CPUID 660F01 and it matches the copy that Platomav has in his archive, so that checks out. If i can find the VBIOS module and any others that differ from the ā€œnormalā€ A88X EFI modules I would like to make a mega page right here on this thread for BIOS downloads with A8-7680 support for every motherboard I can find. That way nobody else has to deal with this headache.

Thank-you for the new information!

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Thank you very much for the quick response. If anyone is still looking for the BIOS update for A88X from Gigabyte (A88XM-D3HP), here is the direct link.

https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/attachments/a88xmd3hp-f3g-zip.1023444/

Iā€™m currently still waiting for a response from AsRock. Like Gigabyte, there may have been updates there that were never published on the website. Iā€™m looking forward to their feedback.

As a test, I asked support there for the Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer.

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Thatā€™s awesome! Iā€™ve located and confirmed the Carrizo VBIOS and microcode are indeed included in the BIOS youā€™ve linked.

If youā€™re feeling brave, I created a modded FM2A88X+ Killer BIOS using the modules I found in the Gigabyte BIOS:
F288KiP2.zip (4.6 MB)

I must warn you though, this is provided as-is and I have no way to verify that it will work on your machine. Although I very much doubt it would cause a full-brick like what I experienced, it is always best that you back up your BIOS and have a recovery method readily available.

It is likely that if it doesnā€™t work, you will just need to either install a Trinity or Kaveri APU to flash back to factory BIOS since I didnā€™t touch any of those corresponding EFI modules.

You will need to use ASRockā€™s ā€œInstant Flashā€ or whatever they call their flash utility in the BIOS.

Thank-you again for the new information. I actually do have a Gigabyte F2-A88XM-D3HP board somewhere that I can test the base ROM on, just if I can remember where I put it :thinking: