Modded Bios for Xeon X5460 on Asus P5Q Pro

[Salil]

Hello,
I wanted to install a Xeon X5460 on my Asus P5Q Pro. Where can I find the modded bios that I would have to install to support the Xeon on a LGA 775 socket?The closest I could find is this one
http://www.overclock.net/attachments/45664 but this is for P5QL and not sure if it will work for a P5Q Pro?

 

[hoorah]

Not sure, but interested to find out. My sister has an ASUS board with a Q6600 in it, but I can't remember the model of the board. I want to say its a P5Q, but not 100%. She's been asking about an upgrade, so giving the Xeon thing a try might be worth it otherwise she's in for a whole new system.

 

[bruceb]

Go to this forum: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/ .. They do a lot of BIOS Mods over there. I got one from them for a Dell Laptop so it had the SLIC Table to use with a Dell Windows 7 OS Disc .. worked perfect

 

[ArisVer]

If I remember well you will need a different modification and not a BIOS modification. There were some stickers to change the pin positions of the chip, and you also needed to cut a chip off the chip. Anyone remembers?

 

[hoorah]

Every board is different. To get certain xeons to work, you need the microcode in the BIOS, the correct pin layout, and the correct key/slot config in the plastic tray.

Its been awhile, so I may have some of this wrong, but there were some boards that came with the xeon microcode already (even though there was never an intention of running xeon chips in it).

There were some xeons that didn't require the pin mod strip, and some xeons that already had both notches for the 775 boards. I think they might have actually been considered 775 chips (rather than 771). Those are usually the easiest to port over.

I've put xeons in a handful of dell workstations, and in every case they were drop-in compatible (even though the dell site never listed that compatibility). I don't have any experience with the pin-modded or slotted versions.