Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 20:10:31 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: darrylo@sr.hp.com Subject: Re: Equium 6200M successfull install Message-ID: <v0401171ab1b34d417af7@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <199806201647.LAA10688@base486.home.org>
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At 11:47 AM -0500 6/20/98, Dave Bodenstab wrote: > I have successfully installed the 5/20 snap on a dual-ppro > Toshiba Equium 6200m (pr440fx mb). I had to upgrade the > firmware on the Micropolis disks, but that's all. That's encouraging to hear! I have a second PPro to install in one of my Toshiba 6200M's, but I haven't done it yet (almost did it this past weekend). > Previously, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> had noted: > >> It appears that a BIOS upgrade may be necessary (one newer than >> that available from Toshiba). > Since I'm now new to SMP, a few questions: > > 1. I got the BIOS upgrade from the intel support site, but when I > tried it, it gave me an error about a failure to initialize the > flash memory and the upgrade aborted. Anyone have a clue about > this? Both I and a friend of mine bought some of these Toshibas. As near as we can tell, all of the machines require that you change a jumper on the motherboard to do a BIOS upgrade. It's the "Flash Mode Recover" jumper (J12B1-B). All the documentation that we've read indicates that you'd only need to use this jumper in emergency situations (such as if you've really screwed up a previous attempt to upgrade the BIOS). However, we have had to use this on all the BIOS upgrades we have done. This means you end up having to do the upgrade "blind". You flip the jumper on, boot up off the floppy which has the bios upgrade, wait until the floppy light goes out and you hear two "beeps", turn the machine off, flip the jumper back, and then boot up normally. You then follow the remaining instructions (such as going thru the BIOS settings to make sure they're what you want them to be). It is a little disconcerting, but it has worked every time. And if anyone is dual-booting into WinNT, you may find that WindowsNT dies with the blue screen of death immediately on bootup. If this happens to you, it might mean that you have turned off the APM support in the BIOS as part of the upgrade. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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