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Years ago I had Gigabyte mainboard in computer at work. One day cpu fan died — it did not shut down but tried to operate with 85°C at CPU… That day I decided to not buy Gigabyte mainboards anymore (my home machine had in BIOS limit of working temperatures with 70°C set as temp to [...] As you probably noticed I upgraded CPU in my desktop machine. But cpu cooler was same as before — stock Athlon64 BOX one which was included with previous A64 3200+ processor. During idle cpu was running on 1GHz speed (thanks to cpufreq governor “ondemand”) and had 37-39°C temperature. Under load (such as OE/Poky builds) it was [...] I usually did big computer upgrades (AMD Duron with SDRAM -> AMD Athlon with DDR, then to AMD Athlon64 with DDR) but this time it was only CPU. From Athlon64 3200+ (2GHz) I switched to Athlon64 X2 4200+ (2.2GHz). Operation was quite simple — take one CPU, insert another but old one glued to radiator [...] Due to fact that some of embedded devices require using vendor tools I decided to install Microsoft Windows XP Professional on my Dell D400. As this machine lack CD-ROM drive I had to find other way. “Unattended” project provides boot discs which allow to make installation over PXE (netboot). I followed DOS way and gave my [...] OK, system (Debian ‘etch’) was installed and then upgraded to ’sid’. Everything is working with Linux (kernel 2.6.18 from Etch): ACPI reports battery status, battery is charging without problems. Dell Wireless 1450 card works — I only had to install bcm43xx firmware (which I took from Cafuego’s Sarge Backports repository). There is also other way — [...] Today I checked how to flash BIOS on Progear HX1050 webpad. Basically there are two ways: using psplash.exe under DOS using fpFlashBIOS under GNU/Linux I do not know does they were provided with default installations. Flashing under GNU/Linux (Debian ‘testing’ in my case) is simple: sync ./fpFlashBIOS -w:pb_10404.rom Application will write some flash block (and verify). Then reboot to check does everything [...] |
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