<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Sorry if this has been gone through before but...</div><div>I've been put off by the various problems I've read about updating the BIOS on my XW9400 motherboard to support quad core processors. There seem to be various problems ( mac addresses going awol ) and things that need to be done ( connecting jumpers etc. ) which have made me think it isn't worth it.</div><div><br></div><div>But - I've decided I want to give it a go...</div><div><br></div><div>My understanding is that I need to short out a jumper on the board - I think I know which points I have to bridge - but does anyone have a picture - just to make me feel sure I'm not going to blow the entire board up :-/</div><div><br></div><div>I have the latest version of flashrom - the process I think I need to go through is ... I've
used </div><div><div>sudo flashrom -r biosbackup.rom -m hp:xw9400</div></div><div>to copy the current image.</div><div>I'm assuming I have to use</div><div>sudo flashrom -m hp:xw9400 -w 7D6_0403.bin</div><div>to flash it with the 4.03 image off the HP web site. I'm assuming that with the write enable, this will update the boot block - but will this also remove the MAC addresses - or is that some other problem people have had?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any help.</div><div>Nigel</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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