Hi, On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:21:32AM -0800, dedmons wrote: > I looked into LinuxBios many years ago, but never > tried to burn a new BIOS. > > Now, given that many appear to be flashable onboard > by the motherboard itself, I decided to give it another > look.
Hm, I don't know enough about these things, but: I'm not sure that once you flash your own image on the BIOS chip it will still be able to be flashed "on-board" as it was before!? Is this flash-code in an extra ROM (or similar) so that it's protected from being overwritten? You should prepare a backup of your original BIOS anyway, IMHO. You could get another BIOS chip (they cost ca. 5 bucks or so) and flash your original BIOS on that, then test it. You can then use our flashrom tool to flash any images you like... > My machines motherboard has the following: > > board: MSI-K7N2GM-L, Athlon XP, NVidia chipset Which chipset exactly? The mainboard per se is not yet supported, but some parts of your hardware are. > 1) Pheonix Bios D686(?) Bios 18195747 This is not relevant. You need to peel off the sticker from the BIOS. Then you'll see some ID numbers which identify the chip itself. > 2) Nvidia NForce2 MCP F85055-R4 0348A4 Ugh, sorry, I can't say anything about this. I hate these marketing names for chipsets, I never know which "real" names of the chips they refer to... Is there some official/complete list somewhere? As for NVIDIA, we currently support MCP55 and Ck804. > 3) WinBond W83627HF-AW Yep, that's supported. This means you could get out serial (debugging) output from the board. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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