Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ollie Lho wrote:
>
> > You are doing something worng building/burning LinuxBIOS. There is no
> > activity on PCI bus at all.
>
> Ollie, there is one other possibility. The SMBUS could be broken. For
> example, the ASUS CUA (Acer TNT2) has a totally non-working SMBUS, so
> SMBUS code on that mainboard does not work right.
>
> I am wondering if pradeep's card has a similarly broken SMBUS, so that
> DRAM configure is failing. Or it is also possible that pradeep's SDRAM is
> one of the models that has incorrect information in the EEPROM.
>
Yes, that is true. I think for the current status of SiS 630 code. If
there
is something wrong, probably it is broken hardware.
> I know that many BIOSes do not use SMBUS as it is so screwed up on so many
> mainboards and SDRAM modules.
>
Most BIOS uses the old way to do DRAM init since the EEPROM sometimes
lies.
Ollie
