[OpenBIOS] Video

Boaz Harrosh Boaz at softov.co.il
Sun Feb 20 01:15:10 CET 2000


I know of a flash that can go in the unused ISA slot, the one shared with a
PCI and taken. I think you can go upto Gigas. And it can even be changed on
the fly ...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov>
To: <openbios at elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 00 2:06 AM
Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] Video


> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Edwin Rhodes wrote:
>
> > hi is it posible to replace a 1 meg ibm pc flash bios chip with lets say
a 2
> > meg or 4 meg or even 8 meg flash rom?
> > or are we completely limited to 1 meg?
> > edwin
>
> I think it is not practical. The flash is a surface-mount device, and
> there are not even the traces on the motherboard to connect higher density
> devices. We're stuck.
>
> ron
>
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