Using CPUs not "supported" in BIOS...

[PCMarine]

Hey all,

I have a Biostar TF560 A2+ motherboard, which is compatible with the following CPUs, and I want to purchase this AMD Athlon X2 5800+ processor.

Now clearly the 5800+ isn't supported in the current BIOS, but if I purchase the processor anyway, what would happen? Would the PC boot? Would the motherboard properly detect the cpu?

Thanks in advance

 

[DSF]

It's odd that it skips the 6000+ and 5800+, but you can't assume it will properly detect a CPU the manufacturer doesn't list. What processor do you currently have?

 

[PCMarine]

Currently using an Athlon X2 4000+

 

[Roguestar]

No guarantee that it'll work. If you search for some forums where people are mentioning that motherboard specifically, it might be supported with a later BIOS revision or a homebrew but you are not guaranteed any success.

 

[Smitty308]

Just a little piece of info.

I have a 5600x2 Windsor in an Asrock motherboard. I recently acquired a 5600X2 Brisbane and it would not work in my Asrock board. I really didn't care since the Windsor has 1MB of L2 cache on each core while the Brisbane has only 512 on each core.

I probably could update the bios if I really wanted to use the Brisbane.

Smitty

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: PCMarine
Currently using an Athlon X2 4000+

Check for a BIOS update. The 6000 and 5800 aren't exactly different than their slower clocked brethren. I would think a BIOS update would be all thats needed to support those faster chips. Since you've currently got an X2 4000 that works, applying the BIOS update should be fairly straight forward.

Installing one of the unsupported chips might POST and boot to windows just fine, or it may hang during the POST.

 

[DSF]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: PCMarine
Currently using an Athlon X2 4000+

Check for a BIOS update. The 6000 and 5800 aren't exactly different than their slower clocked brethren. I would think a BIOS update would be all thats needed to support those faster chips. Since you've currently got an X2 4000 that works, applying the BIOS update should be fairly straight forward.

Installing one of the unsupported chips might POST and boot to windows just fine, or it may hang during the POST.

Usually the manufacturer would list the chip as conditionally supported depending on your BIOS in that scenario. Biostar doesn't list the 5800 and 6000 at all.