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<font style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family:
tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Hi all,</div><div>I'm new in this list.</div><div>
</div><div>I have an old notebook and the original BIOS has some nasty
limitation (harddisk size, ram type and size, etc...) and I'm seriously
interested in finding a solution...</div><div> </div><div>This notebook
is manufactured by USI, but was sold with the name "SPHINX", and I can't
find any information about the motherboard...</div><div> </div><div
style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"></div><div style="font-family:
tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">So, this is what I know about the bios:</div><div>
SystemSoft MobilePRO BIOS, ambiguous version, i don't know, in different
place it print different version, <font><font style="font-family: tahoma;
font-size: 10pt;">1.30, </font></font>1.0, 1.1, 1.17... :(</div><div>
</div><div><br>Now, let's see what there is inside this notebook:</div>
<div> </div><div style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">#
superiotool -d<br>superiotool r3827<br>Found SMSC FDC37N769 (id=0x28,
rev=0x01) at 0x3f0<br>Register dump:<br>idx 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d
1e 1f 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f<br>val 28
94 88 f4 02 10 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 01 00 00 80 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 fc 00 00 de fe be 21 65 43
00 00 00 00 03 00 00<br>def 28 9c 88 70 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 00 02 28
NA 00 00 80 RR RR NA NA NA 03 RR RR RR RR RR RR 80 00 3c
RR RR 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 RR 00 00 03 00 00<br></div><div> </div>
<div># flashrom<br>Calibrating delay loop... OK.<br>No coreboot table
found.<br>Found chipset "Intel PIIX4/4E/4M", enabling flash write... OK.<br>
Found chip "SST SST29EE020A" (256 KB) at physical address 0xfffc0000.<br>
</div><div> </div><div># lspci<br>00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel
Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev
02)<br>00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev
02)<br>00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev
01)<br>00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
(rev 01)<br>00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev
02)<br>00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160
[MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01)<br>00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.
OZ6836/6860 CardBus Controller (rev 62)<br>00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro,
Inc. OZ6836/6860 CardBus Controller (rev 62)<br>00:0c.0 Multimedia audio
controller: ESS Technology ES1968 Maestro 2<br>05:00.0 Ethernet controller:
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)<br>
</div><div>I know <font><font style="font-family: tahoma; font-size:
10pt;">FDC37N769 is unsupported in V2, and there are other problems, but if
someone want to help me we can do that.</font></font></div><div> </div>
<div>I have a dump of the current BIOS if it can help...</div><div>
</div><div>bye,</div><div style="font-family: tahoma; font-size:
10pt;">Andrea</div><div> </div><div></div></font></body>
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