Is 440BX ported to Linuxbios v2?

Svante Signell svante.signell at telia.com
Tue Jan 11 23:13:00 CET 2005


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)

-- 
Svante Signell <svante.signell at telia.com>



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