Heiko Weinen wrote:
Hi everyone!
I'm trying to make an Elitegroup (ECS) board run coreboot. Model specifics are ECS C7VCM2 rev.1.0 with:
- CN700
- VT8237R
- ITE IT8716F-S
- VIA C7 CPU @ 1000 MHz
The Homepage of the product is at:
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?detailid=885&a...
Yet, i've tried booting a vanilla pc2500 coreboot with various payloads. The most i got it to do was outputting this line to the serial console: "Coreboot-2.0.0-pc2500e Fr 30. Jan 20:12:16 CET 2009 booting..." Actually, there was some garbage in front of that, but that got emitted on every powerup of the board (even without flash-chip). Afterwards the system just keeps emitting two barely audible clicks every 4 seconds (which it also does without flash).
Uwe tried helping with various suggestions (thanksalot!) but nothing really helped. So i'm posting here, maybe someone knows a solution.
I have a couple of these. I'll take a look when I get a chance and let you know what I find. The factory BIOS is one of the slowest booting I have seen in >10 years.
-Bari