Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>
> We're testing the ASUS A7S-VM here (sis 730 chipset, K7). It is broken.
> Even with the standard BIOS we can't put more than one SDRAM in. The
> SDRAMs we are using are known good parts, they are Corsair, they work with
> everything. With two SDRAM in and standard BIOS, we get kernel OOPSes when
> the kernel really starts to use the disk a lot.
>
> For LinuxBIOS it never gets past the 0xFF POST.
>
> It's kind of a strange mainboard anyway. Despite the presence of the
> sis900 hardware on the north/south bridge, ASUS have put an RTL chip to
> drive ethernet. So linux will find two ethernet chips when it boots. Only
> one is connected. Stupid design!
>
> So, here we have another broken ASUS mainboard. This is beginning to form
> a pattern. For us the pattern says "Don't buy ASUS mainboards"
>
> Ron
Ron,
We got the same 0xFF POST here on Asus A7S-VM. I will take a look
tomorrow. It seems that I have to make your smbus/spd code right :-(.
Ollie
