Hi All,
I had a Samsung NP300E5C-A05uk laptop but the motherboard died (Model:SCALA3-15/17CRV, rev: 1.0) and bought a same model replacement but with rev: 1.2
I transferred the CPU into the new board and it boots fine. The problem is the laptop randomly turns off which I'm guessing down to incompatibilites between the CPU and the instruction set in the motherboard (missing microcode?). What's more I can't find anywhere on Samsung's support website a way to update the bios.
This is the new board's bios information:
SerialNumber: 123490EN400015
BiosCharacteristics: {7, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 40, 41, 42, 43}
BIOSVersion: {"SECCSD - 2", "Phoenix BIOS SC-T v2.2 P05RAJ"}
BuildNumber:
Caption: Phoenix BIOS SC-T v2.2 P05RAJ
CodeSet:
CurrentLanguage: en-US
Description: Phoenix BIOS SC-T v2.2 P05RAJ
EmbeddedControllerMajorVersion: 255
EmbeddedControllerMinorVersion: 255
IdentificationCode:
InstallableLanguages: 7
InstallDate:
LanguageEdition:
ListOfLanguages: {"en-US", "fr-FR", "ja-JP", "ko-KR", "zh-CHT", "zh-CHS", "ru-RU"}
Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
Name: Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Phoenix BIOS SC-T v2.2 P05RAJ
OtherTargetOS:
PrimaryBIOS: TRUE
ReleaseDate: 20130220000000.000000+000
SerialNumber: 123490EN400015
SMBIOSBIOSVersion: P05RAJ
SMBIOSMajorVersion: 2
SMBIOSMinorVersion: 7
SMBIOSPresent: TRUE
SoftwareElementID: Phoenix BIOS SC-T v2.2 P05RAJ
SoftwareElementState: 3
Status: OK
SystemBiosMajorVersion: 0
SystemBiosMinorVersion: 1
TargetOperatingSystem: 0
Version: SECCSD - 2
The CPU installed in the board is an Intel® Core i3-2370M CPU @ 2.40Ghz, 2400 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Is there a custom firmware I could use to help with this problem or any other advice you can give?
Thank you for your time
Anthony