Odysseas77

On 9/27/2013 at 3:20 AM, Tech Inferno Fan said:

DISCLAIMER: use these modified bios at your own risk!!

You will be responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from using a system with a modified BIOS. Ensure your system's cooling system is working well before trying any overclocking. These BIOS are not tested or approved by HP. 

Alert - do NOT upgrade if you are using a F.20 or newer bios. Doing so will endanger your ability to flash the modded bios below providing no-whitelist, dual-IDA and SLIC 2.1 functionality. Details here.

Introduction

I noticed that mostly Dell and Alienware Core 2 Duo systems were dual-IDA capable from the factory. I proceeded to successfully modify and test the 2510P dual-IDA bios, extending the modification to other Santa Rosa HP and Montevina HP Business notebooks. Find the resultant modified bios-es below:
 

Flashing a dual/quad-IDA bios will provide an extra multipler, gaining 5-17% more CPU performance on an IDA-capable CPU when using Throttlestop. Examples shown on the right. Throttlestop also provides IDA overvolting and superLFM undervolting to provide greater setfsb overclockability on AC and increased battery life on DC. Combining dual-IDA/quad-IDA and PLL overclocking will give the greatest possible overclocking. Installation Instructions Windows users Download package of interest in the Version column on the right, double-click, extract to a desktop folder then run the HPQFlash file and follow instructions. The supplied HPQFlash is modified by TTAV134@mydigitallife to allow successful flashing of a modified bios. If HPQFlash doesn't do anything and you see a LOG file containing an entry WMI BIOS Flash function is not supported on this system, then install HP Quick Launch Buttons on your system and try again OR perform a DOS based install like for Linux users below. Linux users (Santa Rosa) Download and install modified rompaq from here. Download bios file of interest from above, extract rom.bin from the ROM.cab and copy it as 68***.bin on your DOS bootable USB thumbdrive. Reboot using the USB drive and install bios using the rompaq utility. How to setup Throttlestop to use the extra multiplier the dual-IDA/quad-IDA bios provides?  See 2.0's great guide here starting at step 3.

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Example of dual/quad-IDA overclocked Core CPUs T7300-2.00 -> 2.20@x11 T8100-2.10 -> [email protected] T7500-2.20 -> 2.40@x12 P8600-2.40 -> [email protected] T8300-2.40 -> 2.60@x13 T9300-2.50 -> [email protected] T9400-2.53 -> 2.66@x10 T9500-2.60 -> 2.80@x14 T9900-3.06 -> 3.20@x12 Q9000-2.00 -> 2.26@x8 Q9100-2.26 -> 2.53@x9 Q9200-2.40 -> [email protected] U7500-1.06 -> 1.20@x9 U7600-1.20 -> 1.33@x10 U7700-1.33 -> 1.46@x11 L7500-1.60 -> 1.80@x9 L7700-1.80 -> 2.00@x10 SU9300-1.20 -> 1.40@x7 SU9400-1.40 -> 1.60@x8 SU9600-1.60 -> 1.80@x9 SL9300-1.60 -> 1.86@x7 SL9400-1.86 -> 2.13@x8 SL9600-2.13 -> 2.40@x9   Model BIOS Family Dual-IDA/Quad-IDA modded bios BIOS image^5 PLL overclock possible? Version Tested? HDX9000 68DVD F.40E^2 YES   YES schem 8730p/w 68PAD F.13^3 YES(me)   YES 8710p/w 68MAD F.0F^2 YES   YES schem 8530p/w 68PDV F.13^3 YES   YES schem 8510p/w 68MVD F.15^2 YES +me   YES schem 6730b 68PDD F.17^3 YES(me)   schema 6530b 6930p 68PCU(IGP) F.19^3 YES(me)   schema 68PCD(ATI) F.19^3 NO   schema 6910p/w 68MCU(IGP) F.19^2 YES(me)   YES schem 68MCD(ATI) F.19^2 YES 6710b/s 68DDU F.16^2 YES 6510b/s 2730p 68POU F.0F^1 YES   YES schem 2710p 68MOU F.15^2 YES   YES schem 2530p 68PSU F.13^3 YES(me) F.12 YES schem 2510p 68MSP F.10^1 F.0F^2 YES(me)   YES schem ^1 SLIC2.1+no_whitelist+dualIDA bios created from scratch ^2 created from TTAV134's SLIC2.1+no_whitelist bios ^3 created from TTAV134's no_whitelist bios. Has SLIC 2.1 ^4 no schematic available - try 6910P/6710B/6510B details??  ^5 pre F.20 bios. Requires SPI eeprom burner to write to BIOS eeprom

Flash gone wrong? 

(Santa Rosa) Use Emergency Recovery. You must use a USB floppy drive. A USB thumbdrive doesn't work.
(Montevina) Use HP EFI BIOS Recovery.

Conclusion

dual/quad-IDA and setfsb overclocking system wrings every last bit of performance out a Core 2 system. Please report your results so I can update the Tested table field above.

Acknowledgements - a BIG thank you to :

* unclewebb for bringing dual-IDA to the world with his Throttlestop software.
* semi@wimsbios for producing ADDCCV3, necessary to do the Santa Rosa series bios mods.
* Uncle Joe@thinkpads for identifying the EIST locking bios code and coding guidance.
* TTAV134@mydigitallife for modifying HPQFlash and comprehensive SLIC2.1+unwhitelisted bios-es.
* andyp@mydigitallife for creating PhoenixTool, necessary to perform the Montevina-series bios mod.
* kizwan for providing an easy-to-follow document on modifying bios for dual-IDA/quad-IDA capability.
 

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Revision History

2013-12-21: modded bios files re-released after a hiatus due to a change of circumstance. Merry XMAS 
2012-09-08: added 6930p bios
2012-07-28: added BIOS image section inc 2530P image.
2012-05-30: added 6530b/6730b bios
2011-09-12: new 2510P bios: complete F.10 mod, added pcie_ASPM to previous F.0F and fixed bug in F.0F-fan30pct bios. 
2011-08-20: Quad-IDA highlighted
2011-07-07: added 8730P/W bios
2011-03-07: all modded bios are now SLIC2.1+no-whitelist+dual-IDA. Update details in spoiler:

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hello do you have a working link for 2530p modded bios? thanks.