Hi,
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:57:24PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote:
The image on the URL you posted suggests that it's _not_ soldered on, i.e. it's in a socket (it's the chip left from the battery).
I was talking about the smaller chip to the left and slightly above of the chip you're talking about. But I don't really know which is the BIOS.
The one in the socket is quite surely the BIOS.
Anyway, I don't have the equipment to flash a removable chip :-)
You do. It's your motherboard :) Have a look at the 'flashrom' utility in the LinuxBIOS svn repository. It can flash many different chips when they are put into the BIOS socket of your board (while the computer is running).
You can get another (empty) chip of the same size as your current one for 2-5 Euros/Dollars, swap them, and burn a LinuxBIOS image on the empty one. Before you attempt such a thing make sure to read all available info on the wiki and in the FAQ, as you may render your mainboard useless if you overwrite your original BIOS chip accidentally or so.
Anyway, it's very well possible to burn a BIOS image, even without special equipment which costs 500 Euros, by simply using your motherboard and 'flashrom' (if that supports your board/chip)...
Someone else has to answer this question. But please also see http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2006-October/016268.html
It'd be nice if someone could name a few known-good boards.
Anyone?
Then there's MCP55 = nforce 5xx, which looks OK. The post says: support will be released some time. What is the status of MCP55 support? Does it make a difference which particular MCP55 variation I buy (MCP55P SLI, MCP55 Ultra, MCP55S) and which particular nforce 5xx chip, or are they all the same for LinuxBIOS?
I have no idea, sorry :)
Uwe.