From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 1 12:27:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA11148 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 12:27:16 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA11101 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 12:26:59 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA06453; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 21:25:35 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA08480 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 21:25:34 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA12104 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 21:18:12 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506011918.VAA12104@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Review this hardware please To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 21:18:11 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199505230016.RAA06371@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 22, 95 05:16:50 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 656 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > Award ISA/PCI 586 Bios > > Best PCI/Pentium BIOS I have seen! Should be at version 4.50 or later. But this is not perchance the same Award BIOS as mine that totally jams if one tries to disable Video BIOS shadowing? After this, my BIOS refused to do anything after testing the memory. Since the CMOS is one of the Dallas chips with internal battery, it wasn't even possible to blow the CMOS and start over from scratch. (Just my DM 0.23, as a warning for other people.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)