Folks,
I have an original EPIA 800 motherboard (Via C3 800MHz) that I am interested in trying CoreBoot on. I have been following the suggestion of getting a BIOS Savior for this board but it's a little uncertain which module to go for. I can see that the BIOS is PLCC but the RD1-PL is out of stock and I think I read something about the later replacement models not working with some EPIA boards.
Can anyone confirm which BIOS Savior's are available and work with the EPIA 800? Also, can anyone suggest where to get one (I'm in the UK).
Cheers, Mike.
Mike wrote:
I can see that the BIOS is PLCC but the RD1-PL is out of stock and I think I read something about the later replacement models not working with some EPIA boards.
That's correct. I'm afraid I don't think there is any BIOS savior still available which works for the older EPIA boards. The flash chips have parallel address and data lines, so RD1-PL is the one you need.
As an alternative you could order a few spare flash chips and make them into pushpinflash:
http://www.coreboot.org/File:Pushpin_roms_2.jpg
I still have some flash chips that would fit, if you'd like I'm happy to send them to you next week for a small cost. (From Sweden)
//Peter
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Peter Stuge