We're testing the ASUS A7S-VM here (sis 730 chipset, K7). It is broken.
Even with the standard BIOS we can't put more than one SDRAM in. The
SDRAMs we are using are known good parts, they are Corsair, they work with
everything. With two SDRAM in and standard BIOS, we get kernel OOPSes when
the kernel really starts to use the disk a lot.
For LinuxBIOS it never gets past the 0xFF POST.
It's kind of a strange mainboard anyway. Despite the presence of the
sis900 hardware on the north/south bridge, ASUS have put an RTL chip to
drive ethernet. So linux will find two ethernet chips when it boots. Only
one is connected. Stupid design!
So, here we have another broken ASUS mainboard. This is beginning to form
a pattern. For us the pattern says "Don't buy ASUS mainboards"
Ron
