Hello,
I have been communicating with the Linuxbios mailing list on and off (mostly off lately). I'm interested to try out the linuxBIOS on my old dual CPU board MSI-6120. The current MSI/AMI BIOS V2.0 does not support newer CPUs than Coppermine.
Currently I have two old PII processors (Mendocino) installed and would like to upgrade to one Celeron 2 or dual PIIIs (Tualatin) using one or two SLOT-T slot 1 to socket 370 adapters. A 1.3GHz Celeron 2 boots with this new CPU but runs _extremely_ slow, at aronund 8MHz compared to expected 1.3GHz. This has been reported before in the thread 'Level 2 cache activation code' in late 2003.
Where can I purchase a replacement BIOS chip? Placed in a socket on the main board is a 2x16 pin DIL labeled: 686 AMI BIOS 1995 CS 92222.
lspci shows: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) 0000:00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05) 0000:00:10.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 05) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04)