Hi there, Got someone else to read the bios chip number (my eyes are getting bad LOL) Chip has the following on the top :-
EFST F498002UA 90N AZB1MFR29 0303 Not quite sure of the '0303' on the last line it may be 8303, its not very clear :( Is there a way to get the bios number from inside linux? eg. is it held someware that could be grabbed via the /proc filesystem? Is there any way i can help to get the support for this bios chip? (im not very good at programming nowadays, used to program Z80/6502 chips not C code etc.) but given a good set of instructions i should be able to follow them :) Also, does this mean that there isnt anyway to get linuxbios working on my board? or is it just a case of writing a good image to the RD1 to get it working? the last time i used anything like this was when you had a small memory chip with built in battery that had an RTC in the upper 8 address bytes, and the rest was standard SRAM :) Im not sure what u mean by verifing that the image starts 25 a6??? are you talking about an image file taken from the BIOS using VIAs flash utility? Many thanks for all the info/help so far Matt Stefan Reinauer wrote .. > * Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> [060630 18:56]: > > David Hendricks wrote: > > > Can you switch to using the RD1's BIOS, even if it's not flashed yet? > It > > > should be a PMC chip of some sort that flashrom currently supports. > It > > > could be that we simply need to add support for whatever flash chip > your > > > mainboard came with, in which case we'll need you to open up your > > > machine and get the part number. > > > > I'm suspicious that flash write is not enabled in the chipset, but yeah, > > switch the bios savior to the rd1 position and see if it id's that flash > > part. > > But with the bios savior the flash chip was detected, so in theory it > might be an unsupported chip type tristar. Cant fint docs on this.. > > Also the flash device type :F492002UA looks very weird. Can you double > check it does not say something different or something else on the chip? > can you recognize a vendor (logo/string)? > > can you verify whether the image starts with 25 a6? > > Stefan > > > > -- > coresystems GmbH ⢠Brahmsstr. 16 ⢠D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. > Tel.: +49 761 7668825 ⢠Fax: +49 761 7664613 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ⢠http://www.coresystems.de/ > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > MailScanner thanks ACTweb Computers for their support.
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