Re: Possibly defective BIOS detected (irqtable)

[uaca@alumni.uv.es]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:17:19PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 10:06, uaca@alumni.uv.es wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I have a "VALinux FullOn 2230" PIII SMP processor system (2 processors) with
> > Intel's 440GX chipset
> 
> If your box works you are ok, if not well Intel have been refusing for a
> long time to tell us how to handle it

Hi all

I'm going myself to complement this thread someway, I hope this helps others

The motherboard that has this system (and probably other VALinux systems)
are made by Intel (all the motherboard, not just the chipset)

in this case the motherboard name is "Intel® L440GX+ server board."

You can identify the name/model/version of any Intel motherboard following
this procedure

	http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/identify.htm

This motherboard is a discontinued product

	http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/pdal.htm

But there are bios upgrades and some docs in this motherboard's page

	http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/L440GX/

This motherboard seems to not have a flash chip wich could be programmed
offline but it has a procedure to upgrade it again if everything fails
described in "Intel(R) L440GX Server Board - Technical Product Specification
[254151-003.PDF]"

next days I'm probably going to do a bios upgrade and I'll add a followup 
in this thread


	Ulisses


                Debian GNU/Linux: a dream come true
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Computers are useless. They can only give answers."            Pablo Picasso

--->	Visita http://www.valux.org/ para saber acerca de la	<---
--->	Asociación Valenciana de Usuarios de Linux		<---