G31M3-F cpu/BIOS question

I recently bought the G31M3-F board and from a separate source an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500.  What I failed to notice was this board supports the E8500 up to a stepping of C0 and the CPU I got is an E0.  The BIOS version on the board is an AMI 1.1.  I see on the website there is an update of the BIOS to 2.2 and it says for the description "- Update CPU module."  Can anyone tell me if that might mean I can use the E0 CPU if I can get the BIOS updated?

Quote from: theonewho on 30-September-08, 11:55:32
I recently bought the G31M3-F board and from a separate source an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500.  What I failed to notice was this board supports the E8500 up to a stepping of C0 and the CPU I got is an E0.  The BIOS version on the board is an AMI 1.1.  I see on the website there is an update of the BIOS to 2.2 and it says for the description "- Update CPU module."  Can anyone tell me if that might mean I can use the E0 CPU if I can get the BIOS updated?
The latest (official) version is v1.2
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1470
And because this BIOS version supports E8400 and E8600 both of them stepping E0 ...

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