lenovo ibm A15 core 2 duo support

[yasserBasha]

I have a lenovo ibm A15 type 8812 desktop system , it came with core 2 duo e6300 which is clocked at 1.8Ghz , I recently tried to upgrade the cpu to core 2 duo e 7400 but it didn't work and the post message said : no cpu bios update found

Any help , guys ?
Thanks in advance

 

[akseli]

It refers to needing a microcode update. Newer CPUs needs one to be fully supported, they are built into bios updates. But usually if the CPU is supported enough, so that the computer boots, it should be possibly to bybass the error. The computer would pretty much function fine. But if that model doesn't allow bypass, you need to update the bios.

I think the computer you have is named IBM ThinkCentre M55, some models may have different motherboards under same model name, in this case that would be type 8812. I don't know where you pulled the "A15" from.

Anyway based on that, hopefully the page below has the BIOS update for your machine. They will always check the machine before they do the update so if it complains about being for wrong model, don't force the update. The second last runs from Windows, the last one has some instructions for it. Check them. If you can't bypass the error to boot the computer, then you need to replace the CPU with the older one, do the bios update, and then install back the faster CPU which hopefully should now be supported, at leasts it's the right FSB.

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/migr-66068

 

[yasserBasha]

Thank you very much , you were a great source of help
Thanks , man