Hi, I'm new to this so be nice to me. I've been tempted in, amongst other things, by the supposed fast booting. Unfortunately I don't have an officially supported board. http://www.hardware.info/en-US/productdb/bGRkZJiTmJHK/viewproduct/Dell_Inspi...
From the above link, and other knowledge of my laptop I found: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo - 1.6GHz Northbridge: Intel 945PM Southbridge: Intel ICH7M
On the site it claims that Dell get all their laptops made by either Quantas or Compal. I don't know if this is out of date, but following links told me to run dmidecode, which claims I have a motherboard, chassis etc made by Dell.
I do not yet know anything about Super I/O or my current BIOS as google has brought up little and I'll have to take the screwdriver out again. Your FAQ also asks for lspci output which I will add at the end.
I was wondering how feasable this would be on my laptop. My laptop doesn't have a floppy drive so I can't even hope to reflash the BIOS if everything goes pear-shaped can I? Or will a USB Floppy work even with a dud BIOS?
I have already told my LUG about this and a few are very interested.
Thanks in advance Nistur
[nistur@minas-morgul ~]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) 03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller 03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 01) 03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a) 03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05) 0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)