2012/6/25 Tomi Leppänen <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I have a Gigabyte GA-6BXE (Rev 2.1) motherboard with coreboot (built last > week, I think). My processor is Intel Pentium III 550 and I have 786 MiB of > RAM (actually 1 GiB but the motherboard can't see a part of it). It works > just fine when I connect graphics card (ATI Rage II3 or Nvidia GeForce 2 MX) > and some other network card I have (I've got 3Com and some other 100 Mb/s > NIC). I can even connect both of them and it boots just fine. When I connect > Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter it doesn't boot. Post card gives me code > 0x9B. Nothing appears to my screen nor it reads CD (System Rescue Disk, that > is just some random Linux). > > I get the same results if I use ATI Radeon 9200SE as the graphics card (last > post code is also 0x9B and display is black). Original bios didn't like that > graphics card but it at least got into console, just had some "overlapping > memory BAR stuff" I don't know much about and thus I couldn't get X working. > I haven't tried that Intel NIC with the motherboard's original bios > (requires flashing it back). I'd like to get that Intel's card working > because I was about to try making a router out of that old hardware. > > In addition I noticed that my CD drive didn't work correctly if I connected > it to first IDE connector on motherboard. It had some trouble loading Linux > and dmesg output following: > ata1.00: qc_timeout (cmd 0xa0) > ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x4) > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 > which was repeated twice and later it told me that ata1.00: disabled, it was > soft resetting link (still ata1.00) and last message about that is "EH > complete". After that I couldn't use the CD drive. I don't know if there is > something wrong with my hardware, but the other IDE bus works just fine, > which I okay, as I don't need more than two devices. I've had problems with > that motherboard's IDE bus before still using original bios.
I'll wipe the dust off my Asus P2B somewhere (later) this week, and find out if it works with a 1000GT and a CD/DVD drive. > > If you are going to make some patches or anything, I'd just like you to know > that I don't have any other 'special' equipment than the (cheap) post card, > but I have another GA-6BXE (though Rev 1.9) motherboard that beeps > continuosly when I boot it (still has the original bios). I might be able to > switch the chips, although the chip with coreboot has one leg broken and I > use a resistor's leg instead, so it's kind of annoing to fiddle with. > > I also tried the motherboard with IWill Sloket and VIA C3 (1 GHz, Nehemiah > core), which works nicely with original bios (with 133 MHz×7,5=~1 GHz > clock), but it didn't work and the last post code is 0x01. The motherboard > has DIP switches for selecting FSB speed and I tried with 100 and 133 MHz > settings, neither worked. But that's not the main issue right now, although > it would be nice to have that setup working too. I could also try one Socket > 370 Celeron if you want. :) > > Thanks. > > Ps. I hope I didn't make too many typos as it's my second (or third, > whatever) language (Finns are odd people, you know ;)) and I wrote this at > midnight. Feel free to ask if you don't understand something. I also know > that my parts are from different ages and that might be the source of some > compatibility issues. > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
