Quoting Dieter Bloms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Joe, > > thank you for the quick answer. > > On Thu, May 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> As far as the i855pm compatible to i855GME, should be compatable. > > lspci give me lines like this, so I think it is compatible: > > 00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV > >> Intel likes to add letters on to the end of the chipsets for slight >> variations in the same chipset. As far as the southbridge, the >> i82801db src has some bugs, first the src refers to it as an ICH5 when >> it is an ICH4 chip (just text errors), also the PCI ID devices are not >> defined in pci_ids.h or they should just be hardcoded into the src >> drectly, and lastly it does not offer ethernet support. I have fixed >> all these bugs but have not submitted a patch yet because I have not >> been able to test it. > > that sounds good to me, ethernet support is not needed for me to boot, > I only want to boot from harddisk or cdrom. > > I was told, that there were some kind of hardware sold, so I can savely > flash my bios and restore to the old, if it fails. > Does anybody know a link to such hardware ? > > I want to buy it and then I'm willing to test your patches. > > > -- > Gruß > > Dieter > Hello, Your looking for a "bios savior" depending on what kind of package your bios chip is (PLCC32 possibly). Also make sure the bios savior you get supports a firmware hub (FWH), I am sure that is probibly what you have (most intel boards have firmware hubs).
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