Hi guys. This is my first post here. I usually read this forum and download tools from this site, so this is the first time opening a thread.
I recently received a brand new
FX-8230e CPU as a gift, and I was hoping to use it in my SFF PC currently running an aging Athlon X4 620. The motherboard I have is a
Biostar A780L3, and official CPU support ends at the 125w Phenom X6 series - no FX cpu support from Biostar
After a little research I found out there are
AMD 760 chipset boards that support the FX series CPUs - from Asus, Gigabyte and Asrock, so I took matters into my own hands and attempted to insert
AGESA v6.1.0.0 microcode into the latest BIOS.
The Good: The machine Posted normally with the Athlon X4, displaying CMOS Checksum bad. This went away after I reset CMOS.
The Bad: It still won't POST with the FX-8230e
What did I do wrong? Does the BIOS need more then the AGESA microcode?
Below you can find the motherboard's original bios (OLD.ROM) , the latest bios from Biostar's website (LATEST.BIN - I renamed it for convenience), and the bios I inserted AGESA microcode into (780FXV1.BIN). The board uses AMI bios.
Can someone help get the FX-8320e working on this board?
old.rom (Size: 1 MB / Downloads: 0)
- old bios I was running on the board
latest.ROM (Size: 1 MB / Downloads: 1)
- latest bios off the biostar website
780fxv1.rom (Size: 1 MB / Downloads: 1)
- latest bios with AGESA v6.1.0.0 added by me with MMTOOL.