On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:29:18PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
One way to find a shop is to look for game console modification shops, they do this sort of thing (and more advanced things) all day and should be able to help you for around $50 if you bring the needed components. (PLCC socket, resistor, wire and switch) Possibly a friendly TV or radio repair shop could help too, but they may not have suitable soldering equipment for the surface mount parts.
Nice, can you please add this somewhere in the wiki (GA-M57SLI-S4 howto?)
and also, how easy is it to set what would be normal BIOS settings like voltage, cpu multipliers, etc... (For say overclocking a system)
None of these things were originally intended to be user settings, so currently you have to hack the source code.
LinuxBIOS is designed to configure the system for optimal performance while remaining within safe operation specifications for a particular board and configuration. LB determines max memory speed by reading the SPD identification EEPROM on RAM modules for example.
The desire to experiment with system performance and overclocking should not be overlooked however.. I think it's an important and exciting new use case.
Agreed. We should (and probbaly will) make LinuxBIOSv3 much more configurable in that respect.
My personal wet dream in this case is for _everything_ to be user overridable, but I may be going a bit overboard..
Nope. I have the same wet dream ;) Maximum configurability is a great benefit of LinuxBIOS (unusual or complex options should be hidden behind an "expert" button of course, but the options should definatly be there).
Uwe.