HP Envy Phoenix 810-460 K5G86AA MSI Kaili2 MS-7826 V2 Intel Socket 1150 Broadwell Upgrade

[fullbodydenim]

My father purchased this computer in August of last year just before the Intel Broadwell Socket 1150 chips (i7 5775C and i5 5675C).  This HP computer contains a Z97 chipset which should have support for both of these chips with a BIOS update.  However, I have not seen any such BIOS update released from HP other than the HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI which I can't get to run on his computer.  Will it be safe to drop in one of these processors without a BIOS update and sucessfully run the chip?  Thank you.

[Jay_101 · Accepted solution]

Greetings,

I don't believe the Broadwell chip will work on this PC without BIOS support from HP.

There is a BIOS update available from HP under Win 8.1 (sp71809.exe). There is no HP documentation included  indicating this BIOS update adds support for Broadwell.

Cheers!

[fullbodydenim]

That BIOS update came out after Broadwell was released and other motherboard manufacturers included support (06/01/15) for Broadwell.  I'll apply it and hope support is in there.  Thanks.

[Jay_101]

Hi.

Best Wishes.

Jay