Hi everyone,
I have an ASUS A7V8-MX SE that I'm not scared to brick... Has anyone successfully tried linuxbios on it ?
I just received my bios chips, so I'm now ready to try making it run on it... :-)
lspci -v gives me that: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8118 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: e8000000-e9ffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e4000000-e7ffffff Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at d000 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at d400 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at d800 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard rev 1.01 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X motherboard rev. 1.01 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17 [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] I/O ports at dc00 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V600/K8V-X/K8V Deluxe motherboard (ADI AD1980 codec [SoundMAX]) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19 I/O ports at e000 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 80ff Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Memory at ea001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8118 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20 Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] [virtual] Expansion ROM at e9000000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [70] AGP version 2.0
The northbridge isn't officially supported to start with... :-/
thanks for your feedback :-)