It is updated to the last bios that Intel made for it. Trouble is, the board does not POST if I plug any SATA drives in. I have two SSDs that are SATA. I'm running what Intel calls release 21 of their BIOS. The BIOS is probably to blame. Is there any open source replacement for the Intel bios that works? Does anyone know if the BIOS can be downgraded and what version I should downgrade to?
A problem I'm having, I need to run Windows 7 or maybe even 98se, for software that doesn't work in other environments. Think XID and possibly some other old programs. My druthers is to install Linux and wine, but I'm stuck using an IDE hard drive and a small one at that if I can't use the onboard SATA. I could use a version of Windows that doesn't require activation, talk about ancient garbage though. Changing the motherboard from an ASUS P4P800SE to an Intel D865PERL, I have a Windows 7 is not legit error that I can't easily get rid of. Suppose I'll have to call Microsoft tomorrow. The old motherboard is going to the recycler, I'm not trying to run this copy on multiple machines and I'm not a pirate. Microsoft's business model is wrong. Treating your customers like they are pirates will only drive people to free software in the long run. If Microsoft had real competition in the pay for software world, maybe Microsoft's prices would be lower. Instead, Microsoft is on the cusp of leasing instead of selling software, think Microsoft Office 360. I could use the D865PERL as a Linux server if I could get the onboard SATA working. It would replace a K6-2 500 with Slackware 14.1 on it. It would be substantially more powerful, but not 64 bit. I couldn't run FreeNAS 11 on it. A problem is figuring out if the Core2Duo system I built for Dad can emulate Windows 98SE on top of Windows 10 for XID and possibly some other programs that need an old version of Windows. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
