I decided to evict the Award BIOS for Coreboot, for some advanced features, such as UEFI for example (upcoming BIOS won&#39;t support EFI, so I decided to give Coreboot a shot), however, I first tried a well-known working firmware snapshot in archived ZIP files of motherboard firmwares. For my Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2HP Rev. 2.0 - I picked firmware ROM from /GIGABYTE_MA78GM/ folder, and then burned that copy onto the main firmware ROM flash chip, and several power-downs hoping the backup BIOS won&#39;t think of silly idea of overwriting the main firmware flash with Award BIOS. The verdict: IT WORKED!<br>
<br>However, I am getting rather strange behavior from WIndows XP - whenever it boots up, it crashed (from safe mode, it stopped dead after &quot;giveio.sys&quot; file was loaded - I think it could be AMD CPU driver that loads after giveio.sys) - otherwise, Linux live CD distro (that I used to burn the firmware) loaded fine on the computer. I am thinking it could be the bugs in SeaBIOS.<br>
<br>System specification:<br>Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2HP (AMD 780G / SB710 chipsets) - similar to GA-MA78GM-US2H<br>Gigabyte brand (can&#39;t remember model) AMD Radeon HD 4670 PCIe 2.0 1GB video card (used as a main VGA controller)<br>
Crucial Ballistix 2GB DDR-II 800MHz Dual-Channel kit<br>AMD Phenom II X4 Deneb 940 Black Series (for some reason, the firmware told it to run at 2.0GHz instead of 3.0GHz)<br>Western Digital OEM Caivar 40GB SATA hard drive (WIndows XP Home Edition w/ SP3)<br>
Western Digital Caivar Blue 500GB SATA-II hard drive (secondary)<br>ASUS DRW 2014-L1T SATA DVD-RAM burner<br>PS/2 keyboard (PS/2 mouse won&#39;t work so I am using USB mouse. An excuse for getting all USB keyboard and mouse! :) )<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>&quot;Mamma-mia, there&#39;s Koopa troopa in Mushroom Kingdom!&quot;<br>