[was Install troubles & Cyrix..apols list, deleted orig]
Having had my interest rekindled in this board, I again went looking for
it. To the guy (??) who originally posted on this, email me direct and we
may continue it off_list (because it will stretch off-topic).
To save any immediate headaches though, it seems boards
attached with the BIOS stringed 2A59Ht5BC-00 fit into the 'custom OEM
application' area...somewhere between cheap manufacture & sub corporate
distribution. Noted..lots of strings ending with -00 are so. If you manage
to follow this string back to a website that visually identifies & matches
your board, what you have in fact done is found one of these companies
that were either successful or of long term projection into the
motherboard game.
The rest of us, to put it bluntly, are probably
victims of the '$69 motherboard' syndrome where cheap mobo's were made (a
lot in .tw) and sold in 'systems' comprising other specific components of
OEM specs, sold by startups all over the world I suppose. We say a thing
like 'supermarket_specials'..it's close. If these were meant to make a
quick buck, failed in enterprise, or merely facilitated a means, will
remain polemical, but we're stuck with them and trying to run linux.
Like yourself, I too thought perhaps flashing the rom would perhaps be a
solution to some quirkies. **BE WARNED** As far as I can surely surmize,
any rom_flashing is chipset/board specific, right down to every IC in
sight. Whilst you can save out the original bios to disk, if the bios you
flash-in doesn't work, you're still going to need a booting system to
reflash. Unless you were really confident you had the correct bios image
to flash in, I suggest this trail is fraught with danger. (visions of a
burner & spare rom spring to mind)
I did discover something... assume the cyrix was fitted as standard to
the motherboard. <grin> Try looking up your bios >date< against this list
and see how you go. www.cyrix.com/support/mboard/allboards.htm
If there's any redhat specific thing about all this, then I reckon any
text carried (or printed) on this re: what hardware do I need to run
redhat?, is either not verbose enough or taken with any understanding.
There's an absolute minefield of 'good buys' out there (ie; systems
comparitively spec'd against boards costing upto 60% more..quite a wallop
for the buyer looking at $2000 or so). I think I see a trend towards ppl
having bought a package deal of some kind (OS installed), who end up
migrating to linux (either totally or partially)...or wanting too...only
then finding out the true extent of the 'good deal' PC hardware purchase
of many months back, because of install hassles or whatnot or merely the
way linux attacks the hardware causing problems.
I firmly believe this is where a lot of the 'linux sucks' sentiments
get spawn from in relation to the way it handles hardware....from ppl who
have such hardware described running win95 (or whatevr) perfectly, and
expect this to be satisfactory as a prerequisite test for compatibility
with linux.
It is not.
Cheers!
Db
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