975x PUE - High DPC cpu% with 5.1 enabled

Hello,
I seem to be having an issue with Deferred Procedure Calls. While running Process Explorer I see DPC usage between 10%-15% with 5.1 audio enabled. If I select 2ch audio DPC usage drops to <1. I've updated drivers (MSI and Realtek versions) and BIOS (7.20). I've been in contact with Realtek and they haven't been much help...
Chipset: Intel 975x - MSI 975x Power Up Edition
OS: Win XP SP2 all updates including DX9c and .NET framework 2.0
GPU: Sapphire X1900XT
Memory: Corsair XMS2 1GBx2 DDR2800
CPU: C2D E6300
HD: Seagate 7200.10 250GB
Here was there response after I finally got my specs to them...
Hi,
The CPU usage 2%~15% was normally .
Because this is software processing .
Regards
PC-Tech
I understand the bad english but I felt a bit put off by their response. In a previous email I had even explained what DPC's were. Unless I'm completely missing the boat here?!?
Anyone else experienced these issues or have some advice to spare. Thanks.
Nick

Quote from: vr6vdub on 06-December-06, 20:59:06
Would the audio instructions be processed through deferred procedure calls? This is Microsoft's own explanation...
"On Windows NT-based systems Process Explorer shows two artificial
processes: Interrupts and DPCs. These processes reflect the amount of
time the system spends servicing hardware interrupts and Deferred
Procedure Calls (DPCs), respectively. High CPU consumption by these
activities can indicate a hardware problem or device driver bug."
If this is normal behavior why doesn't the audio card/driver identify itself better? It seems a bit silly to me.
For realtek software audio solutions, this is a very normal behaviour. When you selected 5.1 channel output, more processing has to be involved. This problem will be further aggreviated during gaming when EAX is enabled, causing the CPU usage to go as high as 30%. Sometimes driver updates will improve the situation a bit, but does not solve the problem. Not matter what, you still have to invest in the creative hardware audio solution if you still want 5.1 channel output without causing the problem.

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A year ago, I bought the 975X PUE board and turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made when purchasing something computer-related.
To start with, the board didn't recognize the OCZ memory that I had bought, so I had to change it for some gSkill memory. That, however, involved a trip to Argentina since at the time it was very hard to get DDR2 memory @ 800 Mhz here in Uruguay. I had also complained about how the temperature monitor was unreliable and problems booting the computer.
I still have those problems, but I learned to live with it since no major problems arised. Sure, I'd have to boot three to six times just to get it running, but hey, no big deal.
Later, I decided to go for RAID1 and surprisingly, it worked so I had no new complaints.
However, lately something new has been happening. The computer seems to reboot randomly and without warning. This had happened before when lightning struck nearby (I blamed it on electro magnetic something) but now it happens all the time and I can't find a solution. I leave the computer on during the night and in the mornings, I come to find that it has rebooted when I was sleeping.
Here's what I have:
MSI 975X PUE (7.1083006)
INTEL E6600
GSKILL 4 GB DDR2 800 Mhz RAM
WD 320 GB 7200 RPM
2x WD 500 GB 7200 RPM (RAID1)
NVIDIA 8800 GTS
Windows Vista 32 bit
PSU Biswal 780W 30A +12V
I've looked over the latest firmware thread that used to be a sticky on here and noticed that everything else seems to be beta. MSI never released something better for this board? Here's that thread: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=99818.0
The only thing that I could think of for these random reboots is that maybe the unreliable temperature sensors fool the computer and make it seem like the CPU is a lot hotter than it actually is. I've fired up Everest and right now, with only Firefox and a couple of IM clients running, CPUs are at 50 and 54 degrees celcius. Taking into account that the case is open and I'm in an air conditioned room set to 24 degrees celcius and that there's a mini Typhoon on top of the E6600 as well as a couple of fans in the case, these CPU temperatures are nearly impossible.
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Quote from: daiver on 04-January-08, 21:59:50
Ok, lets say my PSU is degraded. That solves my spontaneous rebooting issue. How about everything else?
I still have to boot my PC 3-6 times to get it to start. Temperature monitor still sucks as well.
Is 7.1 the latest official firmware for this high-priced mobo?
Daiver the biswall brand is a very cheap one, I think you should buy a trusted PSU. In Argentina you can find many brands, like Topower and Power Cooler, that are good PSUs and at a fair price.
The latest bios for this mother is 7.7, but some users find it not so good as 7.6. I use 7.6 and works perfect.

Favor to persons with bios 7,6 on 975x pue

Blank I would want to ask the persons who have the 975x pue with bios 7,6 to activate the jmicron in ide in order seeing if she works with chip intel.
Thanks to all those who will make this pleasure me.

Okay Lucabis, here is my test report:
I am using BIOS 7.61 BETA.
I have no drives attached to the JMicron ports, but I enabled the JMicron Controller in BIOS.
I have two SATA hard drives connected to the Intel ICH7DH Controller in Non-RAID mode, and I switched the Intel Controller to RAID mode in BIOS.
After that, I rebooted the system. The RAID BIOS status screen appeared and my two SATA Drives were listed as non-RAID disks. I was able to access the RAID BIOS by pressing <CTRL + I> without problems.
I will not go any further with this because I don't want to risk data corruption. If this sounds like it is worth a try, please go and test it yourself.
Now, let's try Yahoo Babel Fish on this one (Italian you said?):
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Lucabis giusto, qui è la mia relazione sull'esperimento: Sto usando l'ESSERE VIVENTE 7.61 BETA. Non ho azionamenti fissati agli orificii di JMicron, ma ho permesso il regolatore di JMicron nell'ESSERE VIVENTE. Ho due SATA che gli azionamenti duri collegati al regolatore dell'Intel ICH7DH in Non-non-RAID il modo ed ho commutato il regolatore dell'Intel al modo di INCURSIONE nell'ESSERE VIVENTE. Dopo quello, rebooted il sistema. Lo schermo di condizione di ESSERE VIVENTE di INCURSIONE è comparso ed i miei due azionamenti di SATA sono stati elencati come non-non-RAID disc. Potevo accedere all'ESSERE VIVENTE di INCURSIONE premendo senza problemi. Non andrò affatto avanzare con questo. Se questo suona come esso vale una prova, prego va verificarlo voi stessi.

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http://www.geardownload.com/system/speeditup-free-highly-recommended.html
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Very High DPC Latency

I've been searching for months, i haven't found a solution. I have a dell 14r, and i've got very high dpc latency, i've disabled Intel speed step, i don't know if it was the cause, but helped a little, but a still have some high DPC.
here's the DPC Conclusion
CONCLUSION
Your system seems to have difficulty handling real-time audio and other tasks. You may experience drop outs, clicks or pops due to buffer underruns. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup.
Check for BIOS updates.
LatencyMon has been analyzing your system for 0:00:50 (h:mm:ss) on all processors.
SYSTEM INFORMATION
Computer name: ALEF
OS version: Windows 8 , 6.2, build: 9200 (x64)
Hardware: Inspiron 5437, Dell Inc., 01PN4H
CPU: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Logical processors: 4
Processor groups: 1
RAM: 6048 MB total
CPU SPEED
Reported CPU speed: 1596,0 MHz
Measured CPU speed: 180,0 MHz (approx.)
Note: reported execution times may be calculated based on a fixed reported CPU speed. Disable variable speed settings like Intel Speed Step and AMD Cool N Quiet in the BIOS setup for more accurate results.
WARNING: the CPU speed that was measured is only a fraction of the CPU speed reported. Your CPUs may be throttled back due to variable speed settings and thermal issues. It is suggested that you run a utility which reports your actual CPU frequency and temperature.
MEASURED INTERRUPT TO USER PROCESS LATENCIES
The interrupt to process latency reflects the measured interval that a usermode process needed to respond to a hardware request from the moment the interrupt service routine started execution. This includes the scheduling and execution of a DPC routine, the
signaling of an event and the waking up of a usermode thread from an idle wait state in response to that event.
Highest measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 1572,913052
Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 22,366048
Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 1565,856753
Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 11,824275
REPORTED ISRs
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Highest ISR routine execution time (µs): 364,749373
Driver with highest ISR routine execution time: ndis.sys - NDIS (Especificação de Interface de Driver de Rede), Microsoft Corporation
Highest reported total ISR routine time (%): 0,106754
Driver with highest ISR total time: ndis.sys - NDIS (Especificação de Interface de Driver de Rede), Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in ISRs (%) 0,133510
ISR count (execution time <250 µs): 21131
ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 500-999 µs): 3
ISR count (execution time 1000-1999 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time 2000-3999 µs): 0
ISR count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0
REPORTED DPCs
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Highest DPC routine execution time (µs): 747,735589
Driver with highest DPC routine execution time: ndis.sys - NDIS (Especificação de Interface de Driver de Rede), Microsoft Corporation
Highest reported total DPC routine time (%): 0,297310
Driver with highest DPC total execution time: ndis.sys - NDIS (Especificação de Interface de Driver de Rede), Microsoft Corporation
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DPC count (execution time <250 µs): 263660
DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time 500-999 µs): 253
DPC count (execution time 1000-1999 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time 2000-3999 µs): 0
DPC count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0
REPORTED HARD PAGEFAULTS
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Process with highest pagefault count: explorer.exe
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Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process: 493
Highest hard pagefault resolution time (µs): 12225544,827694
Total time spent in hard pagefaults (%): 247,355044
Number of processes hit: 22
PER CPU DATA
CPU 0 Interrupt cycle time (s): 0,761402
CPU 0 ISR highest execution time (µs): 331,166667
CPU 0 ISR total execution time (s): 0,090588
CPU 0 ISR count: 7756
CPU 0 DPC highest execution time (µs): 678,561404
CPU 0 DPC total execution time (s): 0,432507
CPU 0 DPC count: 129558
CPU 1 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1,093584
CPU 1 ISR highest execution time (µs): 364,749373
CPU 1 ISR total execution time (s): 0,177768
CPU 1 ISR count: 13378
CPU 1 DPC highest execution time (µs): 650,636591
CPU 1 DPC total execution time (s): 0,566066
CPU 1 DPC count: 21399
CPU 2 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1,091097
CPU 2 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0,0
CPU 2 ISR total execution time (s): 0,0
CPU 2 ISR count: 0
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CPU 2 DPC total execution time (s): 0,292306
CPU 2 DPC count: 112231
CPU 3 Interrupt cycle time (s): 0,461547
CPU 3 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0,0
CPU 3 ISR total execution time (s): 0,0
CPU 3 ISR count: 0
CPU 3 DPC highest execution time (µs): 338,436090
CPU 3 DPC total execution time (s): 0,020591
CPU 3 DPC count: 725

Hi,
Please refer to the article below:
http://blog.tune-up.com/windows-insights/title-poor-jerky-performance-fixing-unacceptably-high-dpc-latency-issues/
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975x PUE random reboots during games

Here is my setup:
MSI 975x PUE
Core 2 Duo E6300
2GB Gskill 800mhz DDR2
X1900XTX (PCI-e)
300GB HDD
Xfi Fatality
Windows XP And Vista
My system seems to reboot randomly when playing games. No warning, No errors, just straight reboot. It could be 5 mins into the game or 45mins into the game. I have tried formatting and reinstalling windows XP Pro, I also tried installing Windows Vista Ultimate, I made sure the voltage in the BIOS is setup correctly for the memory, I run memtest86 for almost 24 hours with no errors, I run Windows MemTest for about 20 hours with no errors, I run PRIME2004 for about 9 hours with no errors, I tried different RAM, I bought a new hard drive, I replaced the Power supply with a brand new Antec 650 watt. I updated the BIOS. There are games which I have played for a few hours with no reboot, Diablo 2, Neverwinter Nights 1, Quake 3, Counter Strike Source. Games that reboot the system all the time are Command and Conquer 3, World of warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online Beta, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, and Neverwinter nights 2. I have also tried installing Ubuntu, and the install goes fine, but I cannot install the video drivers, and I get a PCI error every time I boot up, the error is too quick for me to take a note of.

Quote from: Blazer on 05-April-07, 04:34:35
rma the orig gskill, corsair has always worked for me, kingston hyperX should work also, or just read through the forums for what is working for others, cheaper is not always better, it appears the 975 is picky about ram.
That would lead me to believe the MB is defective then, not the RAM. If the MB is fussy about RAM why would the onus be on the RAM manufacturer to replace the RAM until something works instead of the MB manufacturer, who is the source of the problem, to properly design their MB?
FYI I'm also having issues with my 975x PUE where it won't boot with neither my very high quality OCZ RAM nor with just basic Crucial RAM. They've RMA'd my first board and the new one fixed my original problem (wouldn't even initialize POST) only to give me different problems. MSI royally screwed-up with that board and I hope they find a solution quick because I'm not very enthusiastic about being beta tester for hardware I pay hundreds of dollars for.

MS 7246 (975x PUE) = Motherboard of many woes , help if you can.... (pics)

My setup
MSI MS - 7246 v 2.1 (975x PUE) bios 7.0 / 7.1/7.2/7.4
E6600 2.4ghz w/ 4mb cache
2x 1GB Corsair CM2 6400 (ddrII 800)
Silencer 610w powersupply
2x 74gb raptors Raid=0
I'll try to be as informative and brief as possible.
My journey started with a lot (not enough as it turns out) research for a nice board for the core 2 e6600. Finally choosing this motherboard after reading through the review on tomshardware.com . I'm not new to computer building, but who knows, maybe I've missed something.
I've come to find , the bios are quite horrible to say the least, with each "revision" i loose more options and less things work.
This motherboard will not clock my e6600 correctly. In system properties / CPUZ it is displayed as a 1.2ghz proccessor.
The bios also confirms this on boot up, Displaying 297mhz (33x9) along with the incorrect DDR2 533 speed.
Here are the settings in the bios (ver 7.0, the only version that seems to work with the RAID)
CPU FSB Frequency = 266mhz
FSB @ memory clock ratio = Auto (i believe thats 1:2 according to cpuz)
It feels like im missing a multiplier somewhere in the setup. Everything is half speed.
I've tried to update the bios to the one's ive listed , but with any other bios revision my FSB ratio option gets locked, and my raid doesnt work.
I've sent the motherboard in on RMA and its been returned, It came with the 7.4 bios flashed on to it which means my raid wouldnt work (and still would not detect the processor correctly).
I've included some pictures of the bios settings and what its displaying, just to prove im not out of my mind!
Any help would be great!

It seems pretty evident to me that you have a bad board. I've tried all offcial bios (and many betas) and NEVER my processor (the same as yours) was incorrectly detected.
I doubt that dissabling SpeedStep and C1E will help in any way, and if it does, that should be a sign of a faulty board, because I'm running at 3 Ghz (333 x 9) with SpeedStep and C1E enabled and all voltages auto without any problem.

MSI 975X PUE weird temps

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Yeah I found most temp progs suck in this mobo/chipset (not sure which it is) - Dual CoreCenter gives a 10c different reading compared to all other progs (no cheating there then!) and the alarm also set off constantly even though tthere were no temp breaches.
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Recommendations for fast and stable system would be highly appreciated.
I have read a lot on this forum the past few days and seems there are some touchy issues with the memory.
My first set of Corsair 6400C4Ds I may have returned too quickly but one of the two twin bars would not boot as it arrived.
But I had not changed any voltages or run MEMTEST+ regretably. In too much of a hurry to make it work I guess.
Now I would like to change this dealer-loaned 1GB 667 single OEM bar for some great higher speed memory.
Thanks for recommendations.
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MBD: MSI P975X PUE-v2.1
CPU: Conroe 6600 Dual2 Core
RAM: OEM 667 single bar - slot 2
HDD: 2xWD SATAII 250GB CaviarRE2-RAID0 Config.
O/S: WINXP PRO SP2 - updated
GrC: Asus ATI Radeon EAX550HM512 PCIe 16x
FLP: SONY (std old floppy drive thing)
DVD: LD 16x 8080B (std old thing-IDE connector)
PWR: LCP 420 Super Silent
CSE: Standard old box
Cool: Nothing special

Quote from: rvrichard on 26-December-06, 11:05:45
Keith, VDIMM is set at 2.2V, BIOS setting says 4,4,4,12 SIV reports 4,5,4,12 cpuz shows 4,5,6,12! So I guess I don't really know what it is
ROY - We seem to have quite similar machines. So I guess this is a bit of a quandry /
QUESTION: what version of the MB do you have 2.0 or 2.1? Mine is v 2.1.
Here are my SIV results that are consistent with the BIOS manual settings.
SIV - System Information Viewer V3.18 BDSTAR::kk
Windows XP Professional (Single User) V5.01 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 MSI MS-7246
up: 00 01:07:38 2006-01-01 01:13:04 [800MHz Dual DD2RAM] PCI-Express x16 (x16) FSB:DRAM 4:6
Resource Usage 18% Current MB (KB) Maximum MB (KB) Free MB (KB) [1,648] DD2RAM CAS Latency 4
System Physical Memory 376 (384,112) 2,048 (2,097,152) 1,500 (1,536,252) RAS to CAS Delay 4
System Paging File 223 (228,728) 3,428 (3,510,780) 3,205 (3,282,052) RAS Precharge 4
System File Cache 238 (244,408) 239 (244,996) 0 (588) Activate Precharge 12
I guess thats about it from me. Perhaps others on the forum can advise / the Crucial stix I have seem to be fine although some COLD rebooting is still necessary.
Keith

975x PUE & Overclocking Help

Hey guys,
I have an Intel core 2 duo 6600, MSI 975x PUE mobo, 4gb ddr 2 corsair ram. I followed the several guides on overclocking, and currently have my CPU FSB at 333, the CPU Voltage is set at auto (according to PC Wizard 2008 it's running at 1.28V), my ram multiplier is at 1:1, ram voltage is at 2.1, ram timings at 4-4-4-12 Everything so far seems stable, idle temps are in the mid 30's (celcius), however i have one problem, When i restart my PC, the computer does not post, my screen just stays black. I have to reset it again for the bios to post and the computer to boot. Anyone know what causes this and how I can resolve it? I appreciate any help!

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First of, PSU corsair VX 550, cracking PSU and single rail. Would say mid budget range.....
Did you set PCI express timings to 100 instead of Auto?
Disabled spread spectrum
Also, disable SPD and maually set to 5-5-5-15
memory voltage as per manufacturers website
Do not up voltage of cpu to start with......
And lastly.......... was system stable before you started OC work?
I researched my PSU and found nothing but great reviews, it's basically the same PSU as the OCZ GameXtream 700W PSU.
PCI Express frequency is on 100
Spread Spectrum is Disabled
Memory Timings are already manually set at 5-5-5-12 as per the manufacturer (I also tried 15 but no change)
Memory voltage is at 1.9 per the manufacturer
CPU Voltage is set on Auto since upping the voltage made no change.
My System is completely stable on default settings, and its' completely stable when overclocked to 3ghz, however when i restart the computer it will not do a warm boot, I have to hit the reset button. It's more of an annoyance then anything.
Right now I have my CPU running at 2.84 and memory at 667 w/multiplier on 1.25 and my computer will do a Warm boot Just fine. I'd really like to keep it at 3ghz though.

975X PUE: SATA vs IDE Combinations: 2+2, 4, or 1+3?

Hello,
I searched but didn't find info. For a new build with a 975X PUE, what is the optimal configuration of IDE/SATA drives. I want to have a configuation like:
DRIVE PURPOSE SATA or IDE?
C: VISTA OS ?
D: Data drive 2 SATA, RAID1
E: Backup for Data ?
My question is: Should I use SATA for drives C and E or IDE? Or one of each? Is there a general rule for which is preferred? All things being equal, I prefer SATA since cables are smaller.
Thx.
Scott
PS C and E will likely be single-drive, non-RAID.

Quote from: jsmartin22 on 16-June-07, 14:51:31
I thought perhaps there would be a difference data rates between the IDE/SATA, which arise only when you reach a specific # of SATA drives--in which case it might be better to begin using IDE. Looks like I was wrong. Thx.
Scott
SATA II 300 has 3.0 Gbit/sec available per port, so the number of SATA ports used should not make a difference. There is a theoretical advantage in using SATA, as it is a serial connection instead of a parallel connection with PATA.
Furthermore, because of your RAID 1 setup, you will be using AHCI mode for the onboard Intel controller. The Intel Matrix Storage driver (used for AHCI mode) might give you a couple percents extra drive performance over an IDE interface, even when using single drives.
So SATA would be the way to go...

High load CPU X process

Hi,
I'm using ArchLinux 64bit, with KDE 4.3.4 on a sony vaio, everything work fine, but after some normal work I see that process X takes more then 90% of CPU and never slow down. Even if I closed all my application it stays at 90%. I don't know how to see which application could cause this.
As first impression it seems when I use samba adn move some file from my machine to a windows machine, but today it takes high load cpu without using samba, so I don't know what else do, any good advice?
thanks a lot
cesare

Hi thank you very much for your reply, I'm sorry to reply just now.
Anyway I have a Sony Vaio VGN.SR21M, using opensource driver xf86-video-radeonhd with hardware acc on. My graphics card is a Radeon3400HD
I used the closed driver till I switch to Xorg 1.7 and so I can't using it anymore so I switched to the free one.
Should I disable desktop effects?
Thanks again
Cesare
Last edited by cesare (2010-01-25 08:48:01)

MSI 975X PUE + MSI StarHub 7-port USB 2.0 + Windows XP SP3 = Fail

Hi,
today I bought a MSI StarHub and connected it to my computer with MSI 975X PUE and Win XP SP3. But XP does not recognize the hub. On the same computer I have Win 7 installed. There the hub works very well. Any hints to get the hub working on XP? I have same problems with my mouse, logitech G500. It works on WIN 7 and does not work on XP. What can I do?
Regards

There was no driver for the StarHub included and I did not find a driver to download on the msi homepage. When running Win7 the hub is shown as Generic USB Device in the device manager on xp it is a USB 2.0 HUB [mtt] and I do not have the driver for this.
I installed the logitech G500 driver on both, win xp and win 7, but xp does not recognize it.

Upgrade cpu with AMD A10-4600M in HP Pavilion dv7-6101er (lz661ea) FS1 and FS1r2 sockets

Hello Friends. I owner HP Pavilion dv7-6101er (lz661ea) and i want to upgrade cpu. Current CPU is A6-3410MX and socket FS1 i want replace for AMD A10-4600M socket FS1r2. But i don't shure will new cpu working in my notebook? I asked this question in ADM support, they said what both CPU is compatible, but need software support in bios of specific models of notebooks. I can't ask this question in HP support because free support time of my model is ended. Please prompt - BIOS of my notebook will support a new CPU?
This question was solved.
View Solution.

n00x wrote:
All of what you wrote - I understand that. But understand and you - the replacement of the processor is required because performance lacking. For a new book i haven't money. You are employee of HP and really can help asking the question to someone of your colleagues who will know exactly whether to run the new AMD processors in my notebook. All my notebooks have been made HP I always helped the company - buying its products, help you and me now. I'm not asking for much - just a concrete answer - will work or not?
No!! That is where you are wrong. I am not an HP employee.
Very few of us here in the forums are HP Employees. Those that are, with very few exceptions, are here volunteering their own time to help owners of HP products. This is a peer to peer forum where owners of HP products share their time and expertise helping others who need help. We are here to help. We are helping as volunteers.
There is no concrete answer on this. Sometimes an upgrade to an unsupported CPU will work, but most often it will fail. Read my previous posts. The risk of whatever currency you use in your country to purchase the new CPU is yours, not mine nor HP's.
Here is a solid answer for you...Use a CPU that is in the list in the Maintenence & Service Guide and your upgrade success chance will go up dramatically. I cannot say your upgrade success will be guaranteed because there is always the chance that you may break something during assembly/disassembly or be unaware of a critical assembly/disassembly procedure and inadvertently destroy your new CPU.
If you want a high performance CPU and chipset in a laptop then choose well when making a laptop purchase. Laptop/notebooks are actually not meant to be upgraded.
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