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    BIOS Modding?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by weirdo81622, Mar 25, 2009.

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    weirdo81622 Notebook Evangelist

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    Does anyone here have any experience with modding BIOSes? I'm using a Dell Latitude E6400 (Phoenix BIOS) and need to add support for an Intel Q9100 quad core processor, and with that, quad core support.

    You can find the BIOS I want to mod here.

    For reference, you may want to see the Dell Precision M4400 BIOS, which does support quad (but I'm not sure about support for the Q9100 processor). It can be found here.

    I have to provide these EXEs because I have no idea how extract the actual ROM files from them.

    I'll post additional info if anyone needs more. If you can't do it, can you provide some suggestions as to companies that can do it for me? The only one I know of is BIOSMAN, and they haven't gotten back to me with my request yet...
     
    weirdo81622, Mar 25, 2009
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