On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:07:00AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > What are good features for a POST card besides being a Universal > > board? (dual voltage) > > you have to make sure that it won't keep a machine from turning on. > I have 5V post cards that when put in some mainboards won't allow > them to power up.
Ouch! Does anyone know what the problem is? Also, do you recall which models any of those mainboards were? > > I've seen memory on POST cards, giving scrollback of the last 32 > > seen codes, but I'm not sure how useful that is.. > > very useful to me anyway. Right, for bringing up a board/BIOS I agree it's useful. :) I just thought about the hw store I'm making it for, they only need them for their tech people handling returns. I figure why not add a few neat features to it as well, since they were considering making large batches and offering them for sale to anyone else. On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:07:15AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > actually, a very handy thing would be a post card with a serial > port ... That's a good idea! On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:55:41AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Bari Ari wrote: > > With a serial port for output? > > yeah. A BASIC Stamp ought to be able to do the deed. I'll probably just put a PIC there for the serial port and any other peripheral stuff. Thanks for the ideas! //Peter _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
