Hey guys, I have an HP Slimline ITX board in my current build. The model is the 'HP' ASUS MOCA_AR Calcite. It supports: Intel Core 2 Duo T7x00 (Merom) Intel Core 2 Duo T2x00 (Yonah) up to T2700 Intel Core Solo T1x00 (Yonah) Intel Celeron M 4x0 I'm wondering if there was a very similar board that ASUS produced for mainstream consumption that I could maybe use the BIOS from to enable my board to fully support the t5300 CPU that I am using.. (The CPU works in the board although it isn't listed as supported, same with the T2080 Pentium Dual Core cpu that I was using previously. I am however probably missing some functionality and there maybe a performance degradation)
You can't generally usually inter-swap the BIOS on any board because they are coded specifically for the hardware within. Because it's a niche board I would not have expected a retail version of it. I also think it's too old school now too: no 479Ms are even listed on any of the ASUS sites now
Aw damn. I can't use the HP bios update as my system doesn't meet spec apparently (not vista, not a fully supported cpu i assume) Thanks for your help though!
Moca-ar Bios and CPU compatibility. Hi Confusis, The T2080 I had worked fine and was recognized and there were no error messages. I'm not sure what bios revision I am on, but I did check and it is not the latest. I have used T7200, T2080 and T2250 and none have thrown an error on boot. I'm kicking myself for throwing away a copy of Vista, I have the same problem cant get the mobo to update bios. If I get a copy and get it working I will let you know and you can BT a copy of vista or I can mail one to you. Let me know if you figure out a win7 or dos bios update trick! Thanks, Cyborg
Tried everything in Windows 7, basically I gave up! I did manage to extract the driver file from the HP installer, so I could do that manually if I wished. Have moved on to a new build though
Confusis - What Bios versions do you have? I Have 3.07 and 5.12 3.07 Works ok, but there is no speedstep, my proc is always at 2.0GHz and ~1.25 Volts Resuming from s3 in mac OS results in system freezing after a few minutes esp if playing video (not sure if this is bios related but it is what I am trying to fix). 5.12 Bluescreens Windows 7 and leaves me with no ethernet in MacOS X 10.6.7 but speedstep works for the 1.5minutes the board works in windows, 1.0GHz and ~0.85 Volts. I could try reinstalling win 7 after the bios update but I only use the computer as a Mac. I am Using AFUDOS and I extracted the 5.12 rom from the HP installer using winrar. Do you still have your moca-ar? What is your new project? Cheers, Cyborg
