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Re: NIC not recognized



On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Martin Loebbing wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to setup BIOS parameters, so that the machine
> boots from net?  It is a 486 board with Award BIOS 401A0-0301, in other
> machines (pentium) with different BIOS, the card boots correct.

Strange ;-)

I think this is the BIOS, and not BIOS parameters. Some of Award BIOSes
are really brain dead and refuses to obey you (I had a lot of problem
with an old Asus and this brain dead BIOS.) even if you said exactly what
hardware you have...

My idea is find someone who have exactly the same motherboard with another
BIOS (ami/mr bios/phoenix/...) and use a 27512 with your EEPROM programmer
and make a copy [yes I know, we shouldn't make this, but we can make some
choice about the software we use but not the BIOS, and also this Award
BIOSes are really brain dead, trust me !]...

/Xavier 

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