Chris Lingard wrote: > Richard Wilson wrote: >> Having consulted the list and concluded I was unlikely to find a Bios >> Saviour, I went at my chip with a push pin and some superglue. Success! >> Thanks to all who made suggestions. I have two important questions: >> >> I've found a UK ebay item of 6 SST 39SF020A chips, which appear to be >> the ones I want for my EPIA-MII 12000. Am I right, and could I go for a >> 4Meg chip if I wanted? >> >> Additionally, I have next to no coding ability, so I feel it falls to me >> to contribute in some other way. There are 6 currently available in the >> auction, and I feel I need at most 3. Are there any active developers >> who'd like a free 39F020A? I'd quite happily buy the lot and send the >> unneeded ones anywhere in Europe, if it'll do some good to the project. >> Heck I could probably stretch to the US if the postage isn't too hideous. >> >> Any takers? The auction ends in 5 days, but its a buy it now, so if I >> want them all I should probably get them sooner rather than later... >> > > Saw your post on LinuxBios, I am about to start work on it too. > > I have already a Gigabyte M57SLI mother board, and have built the > machine and installed Linux. I am using it right now. > > I am a system programmer but have no knowledge of engineering at all > > I need to buy whatever you solder onto the motherboard, a guy at the > local computer shop can do the actual work. > > I can get the 120K resister, the three pieces of wire and a switch; > after that you may as well speak Ancient Greek to me. > > Can you fix me up with what I need to buy, I can pay, I do not need a > handout. Thanks > > Chris Lingard > I think there might be a bit of confusion here - I'm planning on buying some bios chips and putting push pin knobs on them to make them easier to swap around - I'm not making any custom hardware or the home-brew switcher others have mentioned. The ebay auction I'm looking at is at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280143009151&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=018 if you want to get some chips yourself. I wasn't suggesting anyone needed handouts, but I do know that there's a few developers on the list who are currently students, and I remember being a bit short of pennies when I was at university myself, not so long ago...
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