Good Morning, Uwe:
I checked for the BIOS support, so, here we go: Password: Calibrating delay loop... ok No LinuxBIOS table found. Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55": Enabling flash write... OK. Pm49FL004 found at physical address: 0xfff80000 Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB) No operations were specified. (And I thought it was an SST49LF family flash). I will try out the bios with this board, just let me buy a couple of blank pm49LF004 parts (incidentally, i am glad it's pm49lfxxx and not sst49lfxxx, the pm49 family is really easy to get here!)
Ok, so, after I get my new chips, what proceeds? (I will patch whatever needs to be patched, too!) Thanks!
On 10/12/07, Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:37:36PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:18:54AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:20:07AM -0500, Arturo Mann wrote:
Hello there, I am wondering if this board is supported at all: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe, based on an nVidia MCP55 (NF570-SLI), running with an Amd Athlon64 6000+ X2
The components are supported but noone has made an effort to make this particular board work.
So no, I don't think the board is supported yet. But if you want to try to port an existing MCP55 board it is significantly less effort than writing support from scratch.
Yep. If you have a null-modem cable (for serial debug output) and a second, compatible flash chip, the tool to remove the chip and replace it with another one, and if you're willing to test patches, please let us know. We can provide you patches which will probably work after one or two tries...
First steps, can you please run 'superiotool -dV' on the box? Also, is your BIOS chip in a socket? Is it a PLCC chip? (see website for
details).
Then, post 'lspci -nn' and 'lspnp -v' if possible.
Arg, maybe I should actually read your post before I reply... lspci is there, flash ROM is PLCC and socketed (which is good)!
You can run 'flashrom' (without arguments) to find out whether flashrom recognizes your chip. If you have a spare chip with a backup copy of your original BIOS you could even try if writing to a chip works (flashrom -wv foo.img).
Uwe.
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