[Request] Modded Lenovo ThinkStation S30 Type 0606 BIOS

[Leland]

Hi there, I am a senior Thinkstation user, your request “v2 cpu on old S30” that I have asked TEN years ago:

A newbie's post: Is it possible to update a OEM X79/Patsburg's IME7.1 to IME8?

I got a second hand Lenovo S30 workstation which has a OEM X79/Patsburg MB with IME7.1, The IME7.1 has updated to the newest version 7.1.86.1221. But this can’t help the MB supporting Ivy-Bridge CPU without IME8. Sure, Lenovo has nothing to help this. I have read the tutorial on this forum carefully and updated the GBE firmware from 1.3 to 1.5 successfully. When I update the IME8 the tool just feed back the error message: [x79flash.png] Maybe I should feel lucky that the MB hasn’t bricked. C…

the final answer is “IMPOSSIBLE”
I dunt know why.
For comparison, we can flash a Thinkstation P510’s BIOS on P500 to make E5v4 cpu supported. But this can’t be done on S30.

[Leland]

@Heder

Re-Sizeable BAR

I have done the ReBar patch onto my S30 v2.
But got one issue.
When I press F1 to enter the BIOS, may get a system halted - screen stuck on the first bios interface.
I have reproduced this case on TWO s30 v2.