Shaddam Corrino IV wrote: > > I had a closer look at this i815 platform > > it contains : > > FW82815 > FW82801BA > SST49LF004A, which seems to be 512KiB flash > > Unfortunatelly, it seems that the above flash is soldered to the MBO :-(
This is the case with the D815EEA, but other motherboards (probably not from intel) may have removable flash. I'm not really concerned with this, I ordered an extra plcc socket and a couple flash chips for this board when I ordered the flash chips for the athlon, and I don't think I'll have any problem with the sodiering process. If you've never used a sodiering iron before though, you might want to see if you can find someone to do it for you. > > Does it mean there's no way I can use the system for L/B or is there > some inexpensive way to correct this deficiency? > > Not sure if that's a good price, but you can get complete 1 GHZ i815 > systems (ie ready for use desktop) here for about $65. That's about what I paid for mine, just for the 1ghz cpu and mobo, then another $40 for 512mb PC133 and an asus P2-99 (440zx), and case/power supply/hard drive/cdrom from my collection. I've been following the discussion about i855 support, and that honestly has me concerned. This, if i remember right, was the first (well, second, but afaik it's just i810+graphics) desktop chipset intel made after ending the 440 line, so I don't know how good the docs will be (ie did intel decide to go into lockdown yet or no?), and if they suck royally, I probably won't bother messing around with this. -Corey Oops, forgot to cc the mailing list! -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
