SR30W compatible replacement

[BalkanBoy]

Hi guys, and ladies

I got several boards with dead PCH SR30W, various laptops (Lenovo y520, MSI ge62vr, etc..), and I got several new SOCs SR2CE and SR2C4. I was wondering if I can use them to replace or not. I noticed both SR30W and SR2C4 was used in very similar machines 6th and 7th gen intel, SR2C4 was usually found on Clevo laptops.

Does anybody know if it's cross compatible?
Would there be any problems with bios, bootguard or something?

Other question is if I can I replace it with PCH or CPU from dead motherboard or there would be problem with hash keys or something regarding security?

Sorry if I ask silly questions, I'm still kinda learning

Thanks!

[dellxps15]

Re: SR30W compatible replacement

SR30W is available for like 40 euros.
after pch replacement, u need to clean bios ME.

dunno any other chipset that is compatible, but generally each chipset need to be the exact same as the dead one.

for some gpu bga, u can swap them if pads are the same and gpu is same family, but for pch i think it's not possible.

[mcplslg123]

Re: SR30W compatible replacement

SR30W=HM175
SR2C4=HM170

Not compatible.

[BalkanBoy]

Re: SR30W compatible replacement

So you want to say regareless 7th gen is rebranded 6th gen, it wont work because of ME firmware and CPU microcode. Both SOC's are very similar. I guess changing both CPU and PCH would do the job but that's silly ofc.