Hello,
Ollie Lho wrote:
> Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ollie Lho wrote:
> >
> > > You are doing something worng building/burning LinuxBIOS. There is no
> > > activity on PCI bus at all.
> >
> > Ollie, there is one other possibility. The SMBUS could be broken. For
> > example, the ASUS CUA (Acer TNT2) has a totally non-working SMBUS, so
> > SMBUS code on that mainboard does not work right.
> >
> > I am wondering if pradeep's card has a similarly broken SMBUS, so that
> > DRAM configure is failing. Or it is also possible that pradeep's SDRAM is
> > one of the models that has incorrect information in the EEPROM.
> >
>
> Yes, that is true. I think for the current status of SiS 630 code. If
> there
> is something wrong, probably it is broken hardware.
>
How do I go about writting an SMBUS user level program , even I am not able
to find the
spec, where can I get it,can any one pls help me.
>
> > I know that many BIOSes do not use SMBUS as it is so screwed up on so many
> > mainboards and SDRAM modules.
> >
>
> Most BIOS uses the old way to do DRAM init since the EEPROM sometimes
> lies.
>
Should I try replacing the DRAM module ,
THANKS,
pradeep
