Hi all, I'm new in this list.
I have an old notebook and the original BIOS has some nasty limitation (harddisk size, ram type and size, etc...) and I'm seriously interested in finding a solution...
This notebook is manufactured by USI, but was sold with the name "SPHINX", and I can't find any information about the motherboard...
So, this is what I know about the bios: SystemSoft MobilePRO BIOS, ambiguous version, i don't know, in different place it print different version, 1.30,1.0, 1.1, 1.17... :(
Now, let's see what there is inside this notebook:
# superiotool -d superiotool r3827 Found SMSC FDC37N769 (id=0x28, rev=0x01) at 0x3f0 Register dump: idx 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f val 28 94 88 f4 02 10 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 01 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 fc 00 00 de fe be 21 65 43 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 def 28 9c 88 70 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 00 02 28 NA 00 00 80 RR RR NA NA NA 03 RR RR RR RR RR RR 80 00 3c RR RR 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 RR 00 00 03 00 00
# flashrom Calibrating delay loop... OK. No coreboot table found. Found chipset "Intel PIIX4/4E/4M", enabling flash write... OK. Found chip "SST SST29EE020A" (256 KB) at physical address 0xfffc0000.
# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01) 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6836/6860 CardBus Controller (rev 62) 00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6836/6860 CardBus Controller (rev 62) 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1968 Maestro 2 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) I know FDC37N769 is unsupported in V2, and there are other problems, but if someone want to help me we can do that.
I have a dump of the current BIOS if it can help...
bye, Andrea