On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. Does anyone have the information I would need to make a BIOS for > an old no-name '486 motherboard I have that uses a SiS 85C460ATQ (glue > chip, I assume), HM6818A (next to 27512 AMIBIOS (c) 1992 EPROM, would > the 6818 be the CMOS RAM and/or clock?), and a P8042AHP marked > American Megatrends L2450524 (this seems to be a peripheral controller > with ROM, but what does it control?).
I think this is not a good idea, the stuff is just too old. > 2. If it's going to be difficult to get linuxbios working on the > above motherboard, I could buy another motherboard. How difficult > would it be to get a FIC PA2013 (K6 processor, Via Apollo MVP3 > chipset, flash BIOS ROM) to work? This MB is on sale at > tigerdirect.com for $60 including K6-2 450MHz processor, and I like it > because it supports ECC memory (but I haven't been able to make USB > cameras work with this MB). Other MBs that I like are Gigabyte > GA-7IXE4 (Athlon, AMD 751, AMD 756, Winbond 83977, 2M bit FLASH), FIC > AD-11 (Athlon) and Gigabyte GA-7DX (Athlon). Does the issue you have > with AMD affect these MBs? You won't get anywhere with AMD right now, so don't waste your time. The way you should pick a mainboard to try if you want to do this is first figure out if you can get chipset docs and then CPU support info. That pretty much locks you into Intel, unless you find a "friendly vendor". If you wanted to take on helping with the 815 we would be grateful. ron
