You might want to consider the ECS K7S5A--It uses a SiS735 chipset. It is also compatible with both DDR SDRAM and normal SDRAM, but I am not sure if anybody has tried this using DDR SDRAM on the SiS73x series boards with LinuxBIOS yet.
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Andre Dias wrote: > Hello Fellows, > > I have been using linuxbios for a while on some products of my company, > we make pc-based jukeboxes and arcade machines for pubs and public > venues and I have been using linuxbios and DOC to make a fast boot and > prevent the computer to hang at boot when CMOS clears, and to store some > information on DOC and prevent hard disk corruption problems. We also > have busybox on DOC, so we can verify problems and provide maintenance > even when HD fails. > > We used pcchips M810 (red motherboard) and ECS K7SEM (purple). We used > this board mainly because it was the cheapest and worked fine with > linuxbios. Now this motherboards are impossible to find on retailers and > SDRAM modules are becoming scarce. I have seen that EPIA is being > actively developed but EPIA is not really easy to find and cheap (at > least in south america), also its CPU is not the best performance. > > I was thinking of using PCCHIPS m810D (SIS 740, closer to SIS730) but > its PLCC BIOS is soldered onboard! So I had to switch to ASROCK K7VM2 > (via KM266), and we could afford donnate $400 and this motherboard plus > cpu and memory, to a developer that could make linuxbios work on this > board (with sound, eth0, framebuffer, IDE and serial port working). Its > a very small reward, but maybe it will help any developer that is > already working on it. > > thanks for the attention > > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
