Re: [cobalt-users] Msg for Gerald Waugh - re fried BIOS on Raq4i

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

NS> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:29:23 -0000
NS> From: Neil Stringer


NS> Symptoms (other than not talking to me) are no status LED on
NS> front panel, no reaction to pressing S with, or without a
NS> power on, top row of LCD display shows all pixels as black,
NS> bottom row clear.

BIOSes are written for very specific hardware.  A K6-powered
RAQ3 or RAQ4 is very, very different from a PIII-powered RAQ550.
Different CPU, bridge chipset, IO controller, et cetera.

If you did indeed successfully (though I use the term ironically)
flash the BIOS, you'll need to pull the now-bad one and replace
it with another.  I believe Bruce Timberlake and others gave
details a few months ago, perhaps on -developers... check the
archives.

Remember the reason the BIOS exists when fooling around with it:
Providing a standard interface for divergent hardware types.

Good luck.


Eddy
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