Hi everybody.

 

I need to fully revive an old Tualatin board.

It's an Iwill BD133u (Intel 815).

 

Picked up from scrap , in a bad condition.

Repaired some scratches on pcb and insulated with nail-polish.

Changed all leaking capacitors and the board is fully working again.

 

Now i need to optimize it's bios.

The board has problems operating with tB1 stepping cpu's. (CPUID : 06B4h).

It probably doesnt have the cpu microcode for it.

 

The bios chip is a Phoenix D686 , with bios version BDU1026 in it.

 

I need help to implement the cpu microcode into that bios.

Looking for the bios tools or a person that can do it.

 

Attached here is the bios of this board.

 

Here it is, http://1drv.ms/1FKJial

 

Added 6B and 65

Edited June 11, 20159 yr by GENiEBEN

Many many many thanks

 

:celebration:

 

The 65 microcode is for ?

Let me know if it worked, the tool used is known for corrupting some bioses.

 

The 65 microcode is for ?

 

http://www.cpu-world.com/cgi-bin/SearchSite.pl?SEARCH=0665h&PROCESS=Search

Let me know if it worked, the tool used is known for corrupting some bioses.

 

Yeah , bad luck.

 

Bios checksum error.

 

I reflashed back the original.

Yeah , bad luck.

 

Bios checksum error.

 

I reflashed back the original.

 

Ok will compile you another version when I get back home.

Try the 2004 version http://1drv.ms/1K3qkST

If that doesn't work either, you're out of luck.

I am out of luck

The same bios checksum error.

I cant accept , that there is not a proper bios tool available , to import microcode to an early phoenix-award bioses.

 

There has to be a solution.

 

I tried 2 versions of the award bios flash tool ... but no go.

Well the tool is opensource, so it could be fixed, but who has time?

Are there any similar boards from iWill?

Edited June 21, 20159 yr by GENiEBEN

Iwill VX133u

Same socket and cpu support (tualatin)

 

Different chipset though.

VIA 694X/694T

did you try bios patcher by rom.by?

As terraraptor says:

http://www.rom.by/articles/BP/index_english.htm

 

There is also a nice thread at K6plus:

http://www.k6plus.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2044&start=15

Edited June 22, 20159 yr by Strunkenbold

did you try bios patcher by rom.by?

 

Nope

 

As terraraptor says:

http://www.rom.by/articles/BP/index_english.htm

 

There is also a nice thread at K6plus:

http://www.k6plus.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2044&start=15

 

Time to read and give it a try.

Thank you both.

BIOS Patcher ver. 4.23.

Attention! Advanced qualification is required!

 

Found 4Mbit BIOS!

Remove "otkat" (backup key)

 

1. New CPU Support : -> fixed.

2. P3-detect error : -> fixed.

3. New Koeffs Support : is not needed to be fixed.

4. 32Gb-problem : not found.

5. Some HDD detect-problem : not found.

6. "MB"/"GB" string search : is not needed to be fixed.

9. Error display Freq>999MHz : not found.

10.Error display Koefs>9.5x : not found.

11.New Stepping Support : is not needed to be fixed.

12.Tualatin L2-init error : not found.

13.New Freq in Setup open : found, but Unknown format!

 

14.Set "Y" as default on exit: not found.

 

UDMA for "big"-HDD on UDMA33_only_MB fix: not found.

 

CBROM V2.07 ©Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved.

[CPUCODE] ROM is releaseCBROM V2.07 ©Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved.

Adding modul.tmp 24.2%

CBROM V2.07 ©Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved.

Adding start.tmp 87.5%

CBROM V2.07 ©Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved.

Adding cpucode.bin 55.9%

 

if you can`t see all messages - choose 80x50 mode or run with ">report.txt".

©2002-2003 apple_rom, http://www.ROM.by

 

 

Am i ready to flash ?

Yeap , everything worked fine.

Flashed with award version 8.10

 

Photo's later

 

Thank you all.

:celebration:

Alive and working :woot:

 

Originally with Celeron 1.1A tB1 stepping microcode showed 0000

 

After the patch , 0001

 

All cpu microcodes included

 

Let's clock

Nice tool, adding to collection.

Nice tool, adding to collection.

Me too. Thanks for that.

After over 10 years Roman Sevko's creation still lives

I think he'll laugh when I tell him.

Very cool, adding microcode... Congratulations on sucesfull work. Now a little overclock should be in order

 

BTW, makes me wonder, how hard will be to include microcode support for Xeons into MSI X58 Pro-E bios... probably not that much (award bios), once one get a hold of such microcode, for example from bioses where these Xeons (like the 6 cores X5650) are supported...