dual-IDA/quad-IDA BIOS for HDX9000/87x0/85x0/6x10/27x0p/25x0p

[nando4]

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

2-18-2012: Alert about F.20 or newer bios - do NOT upgrade to as you'll lose the ability to flash the modded bios below providing no-whitelist, dual-IDA and (for Santa Rosa series) the SLIC 2.1 functionality. Details here.

BIOS listed below are the latest HP bios with 1 (Santa Rosa) / 10 (Montevina) bytes altered to allow a dual/quad-IDA overclock. These will flash OK however standard disclaimer applies: 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.

I won't be doing any further updates of these as no longer have a Santa Rosa/Montevina HP business notebook to test on. My modded bios files below have within them documentation explaining what binary mod was done. Users are encouraged to duplicate those changes on newer versions, test and release their version for addition in the table below.

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 -> 2.30@x11.5 T7500-2.20 -> 2.40@x12 P8600-2.40 -> 2.53@9.5 T8300-2.40 -> 2.60@x13 T9300-2.50 -> 2.70@x13.5 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 -> 2.66@x9.5 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 PLL overclock possible? Version Tested? HDX9000 68DVD F.40E^2 YES YES schem 8730p/w 68PAD F.13^3 NO YES 8710p/w 68MAD F.0F^2 F.0E YES YES schem 8530p/w 68PDV F.13^3 YES YES schem 8510p/w 68MVD F.15^2 YES No^4 6910p/w 68MCU(IGP) F.19^2 - 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 schem 2530p 68PSU F.13^3 YES schem 2510p 68MSP F.10^1 F.0F^2 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??

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

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.
2011-20-08: 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:

Spoiler :

HDX9000     : updated F40.E -> F.41 
8710/8510/6910/6710/6510/2710 : added SLIC 2.1 + no-whitelist
8530p/w     : added no-whitelist
6910p (ATI) : updated F.17 -> F.19
6710/6510   : updated F.15 -> F.16
2730p       : updated F.0E  -> F.0F 
2510P/2530P : no change

[unclewebb]

Great work nando4. Thanks for unlocking and introducing HP owners to Dual IDA mode and some free extra performance. My Dell D830 with a T8100 has been happily running at 2.30GHz with a VID setting of 1.0500V for months now without any problems. There was no increase in heat at idle and using ThrottleStop to also decrease the voltage means less heat at full load compared to stock so you get the best of both worlds.

More power + less heat = a great mod.

[nkar]

I have an 8710p
Just installed the bios and everything seems fine

Thank you

[nando4]

Originally Posted by unclewebb

More power + less heat = a great mod.

+1.

Originally Posted by nkar

I have an 8710p
Just installed the bios and everything seems fine

Thank you

Thank you for the feedback from which I've updated the Tested 8710p/w table field with a "YES".

Wondering if you can you post details of your CPU and results of the following benchmarking with dual-IDA on and off?

• wprime 2.0 32M test
  
• Windows 7 WEI

Disable dual-IDA by double-clicking Throttlestop systemtray icon, right click on Throttlestop panel and select "Start Dual IDA". Turn it off with the same process but select "Stop Dual IDA".

It would also be good to know if the setfsb [Freeware] PLL ICS9LPRS355BGLF can be used to overclock your system.

[ArmyMP]

None of the Dual IDA Bios's work with my 2510p..... It keeps kicking my 4965AG wifi card as not supported..... has anyone else run into this problem?

[maximinimaus]

@nando4
is it possible to modify a HP 8530w BIOS for Dual IDA?

[nando4]

Originally Posted by ArmyMP

None of the Dual IDA Bios's work with my 2510p..... It keeps kicking my 4965AG wifi card as not supported..... has anyone else run into this problem?

All of the modified 2510P dual-IDA bios except the 5100AGN one have the original HP whitelist. Try the non-5100AGN modified bios.

Originally Posted by maximinimaus

@nando4
is it possible to modify a HP 8530w BIOS for Dual IDA?

Answered already in the first post, copied below. Latest setfsb supports the ICS9LPRS397 PLL that's in a 2530P and may well likely be in the 8530W as well. Meaning if you apply the tme-unlock PLL pinmod you'd get setfsb overclocking. An alternate way of getting a warranty-voiding overclock.

Can the Montevina C2D systems like the 2530P/6930P have their bios modified?

This may be possible however these HP changed these systems to use a Insyde BIOS so requires different bios compression/decompression tools for the modification. Perhaps an owner of such a system can investigate?

[ArmyMP]

this is a bone stock 2510p with the latest HP bios... I installed the HP bios yesterday.....

Which Dual IDA Bios should I download?

I have the Intel (r) Wireless Wifi Link 4965AG

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4229&SUBSYS_10008086&REV_61
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4229&SUBSYS_10008086
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4229&CC_028000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4229&CC_0280


Instance PAth

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4229&SUBSYS_10008086&REV_61\001F3BFFFF91881300

[nando4]

Originally Posted by ArmyMP

this is a bone stock 2510p with the latest HP bios... I installed the HP bios yesterday.....

Which Dual IDA Bios should I download?

Update 11-11-10: whitelist has been removed from the bios altogether.

[ArmyMP]

Just found one that worked..... thanks...

now im having an issue with setfsb not actually doing anything.... everytime I try to set it at a 5% overclock it goes right back to stock


I did get it to 1436.11 once

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1418324