Hello All
Apologies if I'm waking up an old-ish thread.
I've been gifted a M700 with an unmodded BIOS. The original i7-6700T was removed and a i3-7100T cpu was put in its place. Obviously, the stock BIOS wont recognise the Kaby Lake CPU. At this point I do not have access to a 6th gen CPU so the M700 is effectively a brick.
Here's what I've done so far:
0. I've downloaded the BIOS and tool package kindly provided by
@mobilenvidia
1. I've acquired the EEPROM programmer mentioned in this thread.
2. After some messing around with attaching the clip to the BIOS chip, I think I've succeeded in backing up the current stock bios with AsProgrammer 2.1.0.13
3. I've loaded the resulting ROM image into CoffeeTime 0.99 and have sort of understaood that I need to add the relevant Microcode for the kaby lake CPU's and possibly activate some of the patches.
I'm assuming that once I add the Microcode, I need to flash that image back to the BIOS chip. Fair enough. I'll cross my fingers and pray.
However, what I do not quite understand (yet) is...
0. Do I mod the BIOS I pulled from the unit or do I need to replace the M700 BIOS ROM with a M710 BIOS ROM?
1. If I'm supposed to replace the original M700 BIOS ROM, how does one backup or insert any Windows keys etc. into the modded BIOS with the additional microcode.
Many thanks!