Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-04-12 Thread ST
Hi Beth Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2007 14:17 schrieben Sie: > Hi all again (hi ST, yes I am Jose, Beth is a long story :D, some day ...). Nice hearing from you :-) > Well I am a bit "disconnected", but, ST are you still interested on > that I check the pins of the second socket?. Yes! Especially i

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-04-12 Thread ST
> please see my other mail Mh "the other mail" seems to be cought in a spam filter or s.t. like that? ST -- linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-04-12 Thread ST
Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2007 14:37 schrieb Beth: > Well, I search a bit where the #init comes with no luck, it seems to > get down into the deep blue sea :), it seems to come from inner layers > of the board. I would like to be on a mistake but ... please see my other mail, i think it is one of th

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-04-12 Thread Beth
Well, I search a bit where the #init comes with no luck, it seems to get down into the deep blue sea :), it seems to come from inner layers of the board. I would like to be on a mistake but ... Another option, cut the pin, u, but with which tool?, and worst, cut without broking any of the halv

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins

2007-04-07 Thread Quux
happy Easter dudes ! at ebay Germany you find some guys who offer BIOS (searchword BIOS) replacement chips ready burned. if they do not have yout plcc type, they may get it somewhere. please keep us informed. --Q from Bremen ST schrieb: > I would like to buy another flash chip. But all local

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins

2007-04-07 Thread Uwe Hermann
Hi, On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:13:52AM +0200, ST wrote: > Looking at the jumpers it looks like the flash program itself can control > which of the (physically partly non-existant) flash chips is to be > programmed. Pin 13 of the PM49FL004 is #Init. Init has to be high while > while accessing t

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins

2007-04-07 Thread ST
Happy Easter I just had some time to take a look at the pin connections i posted under the same subject a while ago. Looking at the jumpers it looks like the flash program itself can control which of the (physically partly non-existant) flash chips is to be programmed. Pin 13 of the PM49FL004

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Stuge
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:21:11AM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: > Just found this. Gigabyte's DualBios patent: > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=8&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&S1=6651188.UREF.&OS=ref/6651188&RS=REF/6651188 I interpret this to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Stuge
Hi, On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:23:12AM +0200, ST wrote: > Hi Peter, Stefan, Corey, Jose > > Chip pin = (37-yourpin) mod 32 > Unfortunately i counted clockwise while the std pin numeration is > counter-clockwise. This makes the pinsfunctions somehow weird and > your work unfortunately moot... I ha

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins

2007-03-28 Thread ST
Hi Cory > > Just found this. Gigabyte's DualBios patent: > > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=% > >2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=8&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&S1=6651188.UREF.&OS=ref/66 > >51188&RS=REF/6651188 Thanks for digging this up. This patent is a joke: "Certain va

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-03-28 Thread ST
Hi Peter, Stefan, Corey, Jose > Chip pin = (37-yourpin) mod 32 Unfortunately i counted clockwise while the std pin numeration is counter-clockwise. This makes the pinsfunctions somehow weird and your work unfortunately moot... but you managed to motivate me to take a closer look :-). Bios Pins 

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Stuge
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:36:19AM +0200, ST wrote: > I counted the pins the totally wrong way by starting clockwise at > the flattened corner of the chip. It has 32 Pins. The open Solder > Pins where counted in the same way. Chip pin = (37-yourpin) mod 32 I looked up the relevant pins in the dat

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-03-28 Thread Corey Osgood
Corey Osgood wrote: > Just found this. Gigabyte's DualBios patent: > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=8&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&S1=6651188.UREF.&OS=ref/6651188&RS=REF/6651188 > > I'm fairly sure I could have shortened the url, but if yo

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-03-28 Thread Corey Osgood
Just found this. Gigabyte's DualBios patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=8&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&S1=6651188.UREF.&OS=ref/6651188&RS=REF/6651188 I'm fairly sure I could have shortened the url, but if you don't like it, just don't

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-03-28 Thread ST
Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2007 01:15 schrieb Stefan Reinauer: > * ST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070328 00:36]: > > Well the result in pretty raw format right now. > > Bios Chip is a: > > PMC > > 0621 > > Pm49FLOO4T-33JCE > > If someone can enlighten me or has pointers to a datasheet, that would be > > nice.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-03-27 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* ST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070328 00:36]: > Well the result in pretty raw format right now. > Bios Chip is a: > PMC > 0621 > Pm49FLOO4T-33JCE > If someone can enlighten me or has pointers to a datasheet, that would be > nice. http://www.chingistek.com/resource_center/docs/Pm49FL002-004%20V1.8.pdf

[LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI-S4 dual bios pins was Re: New with a GA-M57SLI-S4

2007-03-27 Thread ST
Hi Jose Well, one of my harddisk started acting strange so i had to open my case... Well the result in pretty raw format right now. Bios Chip is a: PMC 0621 Pm49FLOO4T-33JCE If someone can enlighten me or has pointers to a datasheet, that would be nice. I counted the pins the totally wrong way