I bought an M5A88-v Motherboard ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131733&Tpk=m5a8... ) and an amd FX-4170 ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819106009 )
I use Fedora 16 on this machine. Compiled coreboot with a vga bios from my board, flashed it, and in doing managed to brick the board. I have another computer I was able to use to flash a vendor bios onto the rom chip. Compiled again without video bios, and used a pci-express graphics card. Still no luck. I'm running the machine with stock firmware, but I'd love to be able to try out coreboot and seabios.
With Coreboot on it, The machine powered on and the fans spun up. That's about it. No HD activity beyond power being applied. Ethernet port never powered, screen never came out of power save. Seems to have been bricked.
Any ideas?
Jonathan Bennett