On Thursday 22 July 2004 01:01, Price Technology wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Its a Biostar M7NCD-PRO, has everything but SATA & ACR. > >This is from BioStar's FAQ. It applies to a different board, but > maybe yours is marked similarly. > >+++++++++Quote from FAQ+++++ > >Find your board's MAC address (it can be found on the side of the > first PCI slot) and write it down. The MAC address is a 12-digit > hex number that looks something like "00E04CB44301". There is no mention of this in the rather smallish booklet that comes with it. >Power on your system and get into CMOS Setup. > >Integrated Peripherals -> SIS Onchip PCI Device -> SIS MAC Address > Input And its not SiS based, its part of the nFORCE2 chipset. That said, I will take a flashlight and see if I can see anything, but with that Zalman flower in there, its fan is blocking my view pretty badly, so I'd have to tear it down by opening up the swingdown motherboard mounting panel, which requires removal of that fan and all cards... > >Type in your MAC Address. Be sure to "Save & Exit" (press F10). > >Once the MAC address has been saved in CMOS, you will not see above >error message again. If you should flash the BIOS with "Updating DMI >Data" in the future, you would need to re-enter the MAC address > again. Without the MAC address, the onboard LAN will not function > properly. > >+++++End Quote+++++ > >Let me know, I'm still Curious. > >Joebewan So am I. And one things a bit odd. I went to the Biostar site and grabbed the latest bios for that board, or so I thought, but after sticking it on a floppy (the bios builtin updater only looks on the floppy) and haveing this on the floppy: [root@coyote root]# ls -l /mnt/floppy total 958 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 31058 Oct 17 2000 awdflash.exe -r-xr--r-- 1 root root 54645 May 31 1994 command.com -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 13 Mar 10 1994 config.sys -r-xr--r-- 1 root root 40774 May 31 1994 io.sys -r-xr--r-- 1 root root 38138 May 31 1994 msdos.sys -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 290816 Jul 21 14:59 ncd0311.bin -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 262144 Jan 21 2003 origbios.bin -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 262144 Sep 19 2002 Vib0919b.bin The bios updater cannot see the supposedly correct ncd0311.bin file. It was named .exe before but IIRC I had to rename the Vib0919b.exe to a .bin. Its also too big, so obviously something is missmatched. The last 2 files are those for the older M7VIB mobo, with the last one being the one that put the bios based updater in the bios so we don't have to run awdflash.exe first. -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
