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EDIT: Gave up trying to get it to work, even with the help from a couple of bios guru's from several bios modding sites, the best I was able to do is update the V1 microcode to a much newer version.
So I recommend if you want to run V2 Xeons buy a Quanta version.
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The reason I want to do this is some of the V2 Xeons are almost as cheap as the V1's now. I know I could just buy a used Quanta's for a little over $100 off of ebay but since I have three Wiwynn's I would save money if this works.
Plus i'm bored
I am using a cheap CH341A USB programmer and the flashing program on a Windows 7 pc.
First try: The easy way, flash a Quanta open compute BIOS to a spare W25Q128BVFG bios chip.
Result: Did not work, results in a endless reboot.
I was not really expecting it to work but hoped it would since the Quanta and Wiwynn are supposed to have been built to the same open compute standard.
Next is to add the V2 microcode to the latest Wiwynn bios image.
Its been years since I modded a bios so there is some relearning to do.
EDIT: Gave up trying to get it to work, even with the help from a couple of bios guru's from several bios modding sites, the best I was able to do is update the V1 microcode to a much newer version.
So I recommend if you want to run V2 Xeons buy a Quanta version.
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The reason I want to do this is some of the V2 Xeons are almost as cheap as the V1's now. I know I could just buy a used Quanta's for a little over $100 off of ebay but since I have three Wiwynn's I would save money if this works.
Plus i'm bored
I am using a cheap CH341A USB programmer and the flashing program on a Windows 7 pc.
First try: The easy way, flash a Quanta open compute BIOS to a spare W25Q128BVFG bios chip.
Result: Did not work, results in a endless reboot.
I was not really expecting it to work but hoped it would since the Quanta and Wiwynn are supposed to have been built to the same open compute standard.
Next is to add the V2 microcode to the latest Wiwynn bios image.
Its been years since I modded a bios so there is some relearning to do.
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