i5 3210m & i7 2630qm: can they take the same bios? My i7 cpu failed and I'm thinking about replacing it with a more modern, cooler cpu. It's in an HP DV6-6170US and I don't want any white-list problems. Thanks for your help!
The i7 is the 2nd gen. and the i5 is the 3rd gen cpu, and the i5 one came out like Q2'12, also I find the BIOS that came out 10/31/2011. Usually if you update the BIOS then you can use the 3rd gen.CPU on the MB, but from the date I don't know that BIOS update works or not. You are better to contact HP.
i5 3210m http://ark.intel.com/products/67355/
BIOS http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4063&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=5128824#N1749