I'm the author of the reddit post. I found that the issues I was facing were likely caused by bad soldering, rather than libreboot. After soldering with lead solder+flux and putting tape underneath the wire I faced no issues (tested on t400 and t500). I believe the issues might have been caused by the fact that the wire casing retracts from the heat of the soldering iron, causing the exposed wire to bridge to adjacent pins once the cpu mount is attached. The cpu still shows up as a series of numbers -rather than the actual model name- but the correct clock stepping options are detected. I've tested with the Q900, Q9100, and QX9300 and all work perfectly.
I'm the author of the reddit post. I found that the issues I was facing were likely caused by bad soldering, rather than libreboot. After soldering with lead solder+flux and putting tape underneath the wire I faced no issues (tested on t400 and t500). I believe the issues might have been caused by the fact that the wire casing retracts from the heat of the soldering iron, causing the exposed wire to bridge to adjacent pins once the cpu mount is attached. The cpu still shows up as a series of numbers -rather than the actual model name- but the correct clock stepping options are detected. I've tested with the Q900, Q9100, and QX9300 and all work perfectly.
see other issue on this bug tracker
also: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreboot/comments/p5xtmn/any_thermalclock_settings_possible_in_libreboot/
libreboot/obsolete-repository-preserved-for-historical-purposes#340
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I'm the author of the reddit post. I found that the issues I was facing were likely caused by bad soldering, rather than libreboot. After soldering with lead solder+flux and putting tape underneath the wire I faced no issues (tested on t400 and t500). I believe the issues might have been caused by the fact that the wire casing retracts from the heat of the soldering iron, causing the exposed wire to bridge to adjacent pins once the cpu mount is attached. The cpu still shows up as a series of numbers -rather than the actual model name- but the correct clock stepping options are detected. I've tested with the Q900, Q9100, and QX9300 and all work perfectly.
thank you for clarifying this. i have a qx9300 and several q9000 to test with anyway, so i'll fix it myself if i run into any problems
no problems at all. problems are caused by bad soldering or lack of microcode updates, in 99 out of 100 cases