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Author: | Amorya [ Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:59 pm ] |
Post subject: | nvram-wakeup when it says mb not supported? |
Code: root@mythbox:~ # nvram-wakeup
nvram-wakeup: Your mainboard is currently not supported. nvram-wakeup: Please try determining the addresses and sending the following nvram-wakeup: information back to the maintainers: nvram-wakeup: - The addresses you found out (read README.mb) nvram-wakeup: - Mainboard vendor: nvram-wakeup: - Mainboard type: K7VT4A+ nvram-wakeup: - Mainboard revision: 1.0x nvram-wakeup: - BIOS vendor: American Megatrends Inc. nvram-wakeup: - BIOS version: P1.30 nvram-wakeup: - BIOS release: 07/19/2004 I've seen some stuff about getting nvram-wakeup to work even if it reports an unsupported board - this site seems to claim it's possible. But I'm not really sure where to start. Anyone had any success? Amorya |
Author: | alien [ Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:21 am ] |
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Short answer, read README.mb ![]() Long answer (WARNING: CAN BE DANGEROUS IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE): nvram-wakeup comes with a program that can detect all the time locations in the BIOS. Watch for *any* warnings when running it. I went through it and failed to notice a warning/error about the checksum location. Surprise, surprise, when I ran it, I got a "BIOS checksum error". I almost had a heart attach. Luckily, the BIOS was able to load the defaults. What I ended up doing was going into the definitions of motherboards in the nvram-wakeup source. I noticed that my MB was supported with various versions of the BIOS, but not the one I was running. In this case, you can just up/down grade the BIOS to a supported version. This isn't exactly what I did, but I'm not going to recommend what I did here ![]() Allen |
Author: | Amorya [ Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:51 am ] |
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OK, maybe I'll have a try. I'm still in two minds whether to send it to sleep at all - it might be useful as a server or something if it stays awake. I think I'll see how far I get with this first ![]() Thanks for your advice, Amorya |
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