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Hi Stefan<br>
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Thanks for your feedback.<br>
Please see my extra questions within the mail body further down.<br>
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BR, Eduardo<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/24/2014 01:43 AM, Stefan Tauner
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:46:41 +0100
Eduardo de Juan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:eduardo.de-juan@adslmail.es"><eduardo.de-juan@adslmail.es></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Stefan
Thanks for your reply.
I've verified, as you stated, that the file I downloaded from Shuttle's
web page has the same size as the bios file I backed up, exactly the
same, 524.288 !
I've also found that the versión from the web seems to be the same as I
already have installed,
BIOS Information
Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Version: 6.00 PG
Release Date: 02/14/2006
Address: 0xE0000
Runtime Size: 128 kB
ROM Size: 512 kB
Is it normal that the BIOS has not neede to be updated since 2006 ?
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It is normal that manufacturers do not provide updates very long due to
economical reasons and because they simply don't care... (that's one
the big advantages of coreboot ;)</pre>
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You mean I could replace by present BIOS with coreboot ?<br>
Would that provide me with a better (more functional) BIOS
(firmware) ?<br>
I.e. would it then be able to boot from USB ?<br>
<br>
However I've checked the suported boards but I think mine is not
there.<br>
<br>
According to the dmidecode output my board is a <br>
<blockquote>Base Board Information<br>
Manufacturer: Shuttle Inc<br>
Product Name: FN21V10<br>
Version: <br>
Serial Number: <br>
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<blockquote>............<br>
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<blockquote>Processor Information<br>
Socket Designation: Socket 939<br>
Type: Central Processor<br>
Family: Athlon 64<br>
Manufacturer: AMD<br>
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Output from flasrom <br>
<br>
<blockquote>Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP51". <br>
This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date
version<br>
of flashrom *and* were (not) able to successfully update your
firmware with it,<br>
then please email a report to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org">flashrom@flashrom.org</a> including a
verbose (-V) log.<br>
Thank you!<br>
Enabling flash write... OK.<br>
Found SST flash chip "SST49LF004A/B" (512 kB, FWH) at physical
address 0xfff80000.<br>
No operations were specified.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Can it be that my box is so old that it's not able to boot from a USB
stick ?
I've tried to boot my office laptop with the same USB and it booted.
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There are a number of ways to boot from USB devices and compatibility
problems are (or at least were) quite common. The hardware is able to
boot from USB for sure, but the firmware might have some quirks...
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