Steven James wrote: > Greetings, > > I agree that non volatile is preferred. In the ms7308e, it seems that the CMOS is >initialized from the regular flash BIOS whenever BIOS settings are stored. The only >catch to another location is that the sis900 driver would need a a small patch to >work properly. > > Newer 630 (such as 630et) look like they use yet another method that isn't dependant >on the CMOS. >
The MAC address should still be in APC/CMOS ram. Newer chipsets has HW logic to download MAC address from CMOS ram to some MAC controller register (such that you are reading the controller register rather than CMOS to get the MAC address). Ollie
