On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 18:38, Lee wrote:
Hi, My name is Lee and my machine has a ECS Elitegroup K7S5A motherboard. It has an AMD AthlonXP 1800+ processor and (apparently) a SiS735 chipset. It also has a 2Mb Flash EEPROM for the bios (AMIBIOS right now).
One fundamental problem is that the DRAM init sequence for SiS 735 is too complex to fit in the 512 Byte IPL area of DoC. There used to be some samples of DoC millennium in TSOP package available which have 1024 Byte of IPL SRAM. I have no idea if they are still available or not. Don't ask about the new DoC Plus, we have no way to program it since M-system does not release the spec.
Will the BIOS slot take a DoC or should I use regular replacementFlash EEPROM and is it possible to use an EEPROM/DoC with greater capacity than the current EEPROM? I'm also told I should use a Zero Insertion Force socket for the EEPROM.
Unless you can fix the previous problem, your only chance is a Flash EEPROM.