roger wrote:
Have you tried Uniflash?
It run in DOS and is written in Pascal. I used a FreeDOS livecd... matter of fact, even installed FreeDOS to a 2nd partition with Uniflash.
Uniflash supports a vast number of flash parts.
Yep, I know about uniflash, it's what I was using with this board before. The problem still is getting the rom from my floppy-less laptop to the other machine in a manner DOS can understand. I tried to get usb working on a dos boot disk, but none of the drivers I tried worked. So it's still boot into linux, read rom off the usb/network and copy to floppy/second partition, then reboot to flash. I suppose it is possible to set up DOS to work on the network, but that's something I've never done before, and doesn't seem like much fun. I found one howto in the freedos wiki, but it's really just the history of networking, with no real instruction. Anyways, time to get some sleep, but I'll work more on spd stuff tomorrow.
If anyone working on the 440 has time, can you check the output of your spd data and see if there's any non-00 or 0xff data in 0x7e and 0x7f (aka 126/127)? This is part of the Intel SDRAM SPD standard, but not officially part of JEDECs. The 3 dimms I've checked all support it, along with one Uwe used (from a minicom.cap sent to the list), but I'm curious how many don't, and if they don't what values they return. This is by far the easiest way to set up a lot of the northbridge stuff by spd, but if there are lots of dimms out there NOT supporting it, I'll see if there's another way.
-Corey