*HP HDX 9000 DRAGON Owners Lounge, Part 2*

[Bmac2020]

@moral hazard
Looks like 3 phase
@RickiBerlin
Could you take better photos of same and post?
I would like to see spec#...
Thanks

[RickiBerlin]

This thread moves too fast for me to keep up with
Some may find these posts useful:
QX9300 Support For Sony Vaio Z11WN/B

Intel quad core q9100 on Gateway FX p7801u

WTB: Barebones notebook like M980NU or M17x r1, something that supports core 2 duo and maybe SLI

Thank you for your links! I have read everything, but unfortunately it does not bring us further. The conditions seem to be there.

This Inductors (not HDX):



(Picture by Meaker / Source) I could not find. Maybe they are on the back of the motherboard. There, this area is taped off.


"Bmac2020" was faster. Nevertheless, here's a picture with better resolution.

Spoiler :

As you can see visually speaks not against a quad.

Did you read this reply and my questions?

[Bmac2020]

@RickiBerlin
Nice
Thanks
B.

[moral hazard]

Did you read this reply and my questions?

All I really wanted to know was if you had tried connecting BSEL0 and BSEL1 to VCC, that should make your FSB 166 mhz.

I have attached a drawing of what I mean.

But since the EIST mod didn't help, I doubt this would, so you probably shouldn't bother trying this one.

Maybe if you used the EIST modded bios and did this 166mhz BSEL mod, then there may be a small chance. Because then the CPU should be at 996Mhz (6 x 166).

EDIT: Also I found this interesting:

It's not about BIOS microcode update issue.
To support it, need well and enough Power(your adapter need with 130W~150W) to boot up (boot up currency/Power)
Even you change your adapter but your motherboard will also not designed for 130W~150W, so change Power adapter still not works and not stable
You motherboard and Power adapter both need support up to 130W~150W then could support
The Laptop need design for 45W CPU Max TDP(whole laptop need 130W~150W), 95% GM45/PM45 Chipset 1066FSB Laptop design to 35W~40W
so Q9000/Q9100/QX9300 won't boot on (even no screen) these 25W~35W CPU TDP Designed Laptop
That's why so cheap, please ask me if support before purchased! Thanks

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Intel-Co...item19c1dee022

Note: Some ES versions of the Q9100 are extreme (unlocked multi).

[Dominick_7]

Hi guys, I have the same issue I reported with ibstalling tge newest nvidia drivers.. the only thing is now I can't get it to boot. It goes to the bios selection, recovery, check and 2 other options and its like doubled visuals, like there are duplicates of this screen overlapping each other.. then it goes to a black screen with horizontal lines.. and it stops. There.. EDIT.. hmm no it doesn't.. it boots but its a black screen with lines in it.. ugh.. gpu I'm guessing.. Before it did this I had to reboot several times before it went back to normal but now it wont.. any idea on what I could possibly do to fix it? Any help appreciated. Thanks.

[RickiBerlin]

Perhaps "Naton" still an idea. So I wrote him this private message:

Dear Lord, "Naton"

Please'll get you a lawyer! On the basis of your "opened" threads (this and this), I bought "Q9200" and "QX9300".

So my damage amounts to around 400, - € corresponds to $ 537 (without hours worked)
How do you want to replace this damage?

1. Transfer via PayPal? or ...

Spoiler :

2. Help with the modification of functionality of the Quad CPUs?





And seriously now.

Do you have any ideas? Please read my test "Q9200"! (only this page)

Then it goes with the test of the "QX9300" continues. On the following pages, the completed tests are to be found.
On this "HDX Thread" are currently many "NBR-VIP" to help. (eg "nando4", "Kizwan", "moral hazard", and and and)

You are missing there!

Perhaps you have a little time and ideas. The processors I have to send in a few days back.

If you are not interested, then I thank you anyway for your great posts!

regards

RickiBerlin

Note:
Excuse my English! I only mastered German. This text was created using Google translator and a lot of reworking.

[RickiBerlin]

Hi guys, I have the same issue I reported with ibstalling tge newest nvidia drivers.. the only thing is now I can't get it to boot. It goes to the bios selection, recovery, check and 2 other options and its like doubled visuals, like there are duplicates of this screen overlapping each other.. then it goes to a black screen with horizontal lines.. and it stops. There.. EDIT.. hmm no it doesn't.. it boots but its a black screen with lines in it.. ugh.. gpu I'm guessing.. Before it did this I had to reboot several times before it went back to normal but now it wont.. any idea on what I could possibly do to fix it? Any help appreciated. Thanks.

This is not a driver issue. Your "8800M GTS" is defective. You can preheat your oven ever! And I said, let your system as it is!
Sure you always use the maximum clock speed of the GPU. This is deadly.

Of course you can also uninstall the driver. NVPMM is therefore also no longer active. But I think this will not help.

[RickiBerlin]

All I really wanted to know was if you had tried connecting BSEL0 and BSEL1 to VCC, that should make your FSB 166 mhz.

I have attached a drawing of what I mean.

But since the EIST mod didn't help, I doubt this would, so you probably shouldn't bother trying this one.

Maybe if you used the EIST modded bios and did this 166mhz BSEL mod, then there may be a small chance. Because then the CPU should be at 996Mhz (6 x 166).

EDIT: Also I found this interesting:

New Intel Core2 Quad Mobile Q9100 2.23GHz 1066FSB 12M | eBay

Note: Some ES versions of the Q9100 are extreme (unlocked multi).

I'm still trying to understand your picture correctly. The tape covers important information.

To Edit: The HDX adapter delivers 180 W.

[moral hazard]

The datasheet will tell you which pins to connect:
Intel® Core™2 Duo Mobile Processor - Technical Documents

Still I'm not sure if it's worth spending time doing this.

[RickiBerlin]

I found my old post here: Acer Laptop with Phoenix BIOS: BIOS MOD Request In this post I use Aspire 7740/G BIOS as an example. It should be the same in any BIOS.

Two of them will be use as an example. Please observed the header pattern. It will always start with "01 00 00 00". The length sometime 2000h bytes & sometime 1800h bytes. To know the length is easy. Usually after one CPU microcode, another CPU microcode start. So, the length is from the header & until right before another microcode start. If you want to substitute the microcode with another microcode, make sure both have identical length.

EDIT: The CPU microcode can be downloaded at Intel website. It's in .dat file, e.g. microcode-20110428.dat. You will need to extract the CPU microcodes using microdecode.exe tool. The CPU microcodes will be extracted to individual files like this (e.g. cpu00000f0a = CPUID f0a):-

cpu00000f0a_plat00000001_ver00000013_date20020716.bin
cpu00000f0a_plat00000002_ver00000015_date20020821.bin
cpu00000f0a_plat00000004_ver00000014_date20020716.bin

Spoiler :

I7-620M - CPUID 020652h (52 06 02 00)
Release date: 09 20 12 11 = 12 November 2009


I7-720QM - CPUID 0106E5h (E5 06 01 00)
Release date: 10 20 05 04 = 5 April 2010


EDIT 2: The CPU microcode in HP HDX9000 BIOS is found in "romBlock.bin":-
CPUID 06F5h:-

After this microcode, another microcode start:-


CPUID 06F9h:-


First 28 bytes Microcode Update Field Definitions
(Source: Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Vol 3a)

Field Name	Offset (bytes)	Length (bytes)	Description
Header Version	0	4	Version number of the update header.
Update Revision	4	4	Unique version number for the update, the basis for the update signature provided by the processor to indicate the current update functioning within the processor. Used by the BIOS to authenticate the update and verify that the processor loads successfully. The value in this field cannot be used for processor stepping identification alone. This is a signed 32-bit number.
Date	8	4	Date of the update creation in binary format: mmddyyyy (e.g. 07/18/98 is 07181998H).
Processor Signature	12	4	Extended family, extended model, type, family, model, and stepping of processor that requires this particular update revision (e.g., 00000650H). Each microcode update is designed specifically for a given extended family, extended model, type, family, model, and stepping of the processor. The BIOS uses the processor signature field in conjunction with the CPUID instruction to determine whether or not an update is appropriate to load on a processor. The information encoded within this field exactly corresponds to the bit representations returned by the CPUID instruction.
Checksum	16	4	Checksum of Update Data and Header. Used to verify the integrity of the update header and data. Checksum is correct when the summation of all the DWORDs (including the extended Processor Signature Table) that comprise the microcode update result in 00000000H.
Loader Revision	20	4	Version number of the loader program needed to correctly load this update. The initial version is 00000001H.
Processor Flags	24	4	Platform type information is encoded in the lower 8 bits of this 4-byte field. Each bit represents a particular platform type for a given CPUID. The BIOS uses the processor flags field in conjunction with the platform Id bits in MSR (17H) to determine whether or not an update is appropriate to load on a processor. Multiple bits may be set representing support for multiple platform IDs.

Please only post finished results, no half measures! Do your homework finished!

Seriously.: I have not mastered this. I have not yet dealt with this issue.
Until now could only be "notech" joining the bios again.

Thank you for your work! When you next time in Berlin (Germany) are, then there is a beer on my tab. With this success with "QX9300" a glass of milk.