On my search for a LinuxBIOS compatible AMD mainboard, I tripped over the ECS 760GX-M. It's socket 754 and uses the SiS chips 760GX and 964. As far as I know SiS is supporting LinuxBIOS actively, so in terms of the chipset the board should run LinuxBIOS. Plus, it has a 4Mb (=500 KiB) Flash ROM with the following description from the manufactorer's website:
SYSTEM BIOS
Award BIOS with 4Mb Flash ROM
Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
Supports ACPI revision 1.0 specification
Because I want to be shure that this mainboard supports LinuxBIOS before I will buy it, I thought I'd better ask here if anyone has it in use and can say something about it. The chipset and the plug and play BIOS at least sound promisingly to me. Oh, and a previous ECS mainboard, the K7SEM, is proven to be compatible.
It is not support because of the SIS chipset is not supported right now.
YH
On 9/24/05, Angel halbmond@macnews.de wrote:
On my search for a LinuxBIOS compatible AMD mainboard, I tripped over the ECS 760GX-M. It's socket 754 and uses the SiS chips 760GX and 964. As far as I know SiS is supporting LinuxBIOS actively, so in terms of the chipset the board should run LinuxBIOS. Plus, it has a 4Mb (=500 KiB) Flash ROM with the following description from the manufactorer's website:
SYSTEM BIOS
Award BIOS with 4Mb Flash ROM
Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
Supports ACPI revision 1.0 specification
Because I want to be shure that this mainboard supports LinuxBIOS before I will buy it, I thought I'd better ask here if anyone has it in use and can say something about it. The chipset and the plug and play BIOS at least sound promisingly to me. Oh, and a previous ECS mainboard, the K7SEM, is proven to be compatible.
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Oh, I thought every SIS chipset was supported. What is the newest supported SIS chipset? 735? I need a mATX mainboard for Athlon64/Turion64 that supports LinuxBIOS, but the only mATX mainboard for AMD I found is the old K7SEM.
Am 25.09.2005 um 01:17 schrieb yhlu:
It is not support because of the SIS chipset is not supported right now.
YH
There is no LinuxBIOS support with SIS to K8 now...., So need to port. You need to find K8 MB with amd chipset or nvidia chipset....for that. YH
On 9/29/05, Angel halbmond@macnews.de wrote:
Oh, I thought every SIS chipset was supported. What is the newest supported SIS chipset? 735? I need a mATX mainboard for Athlon64/Turion64 that supports LinuxBIOS, but the only mATX mainboard for AMD I found is the old K7SEM.
Am 25.09.2005 um 01:17 schrieb yhlu:
It is not support because of the SIS chipset is not supported right now.
YH
Now I think I found a suitable mainboard: Shuttle XPC SN25P. It's socket 939, uses an nForce4 Ultra (CK804) and has a 4 MBit Flash ROM. The Firewire and audio controllers are made by VIA, but as they are not needed for booting up, I don't believe that be an issue. It is not a standard sized mainboard but seems to have regular components on it. Thanks for the help :-)
Am 29.09.2005 um 21:25 schrieb yhlu:
There is no LinuxBIOS support with SIS to K8 now...., So need to port. You need to find K8 MB with amd chipset or nvidia chipset....for that. YH
On 9/29/05, Angel halbmond@macnews.de wrote: Oh, I thought every SIS chipset was supported. What is the newest
supported SIS chipset? 735? I need a mATX mainboard for Athlon64/Turion64 that supports LinuxBIOS, but the only mATX mainboard for AMD I found is the old K7SEM.
Am 25.09.2005 um 01:17 schrieb yhlu:
It is not support because of the SIS chipset is not supported right now.
YH
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