Motherboard does not detect any PCI devices

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:03:06 +1000, Franc Zabkar wrote:


It's an old Phoenix BIOS utility but it still appears to work for modern
BIOSes of all flavours.

I tried that, but it doesn't run on my Phoenix AWARD BIOS, it returns an
error.

C:\nvram120.exe -e

NVRAM, Version 1.20
Non-Volatile RAM System Configuration Data Utility.

Copyright(c) 1994-1996 by Phoenix Technologies, Ltd.
All rights reserved.

Display ESCD info on all nodes:

Error reading ESCD NVRAM, function 0x41, rc=0x82.

C:\

I think I will resign myself to having a faulty motherboard. It is not as
if I need those devices in this computer and I can't afford the down time
to send the board away because I use this PC for software development
work.

Thanks for your help anyway.

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:06:39 GMT, "." put finger to
keyboard and composed:

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:03:06 +1000, Franc Zabkar wrote:


It's an old Phoenix BIOS utility but it still appears to work for modern
BIOSes of all flavours.

I tried that, but it doesn't run on my Phoenix AWARD BIOS, it returns an
error.

C:\nvram120.exe -e

NVRAM, Version 1.20
Non-Volatile RAM System Configuration Data Utility.

Copyright(c) 1994-1996 by Phoenix Technologies, Ltd.
All rights reserved.

Display ESCD info on all nodes:

Error reading ESCD NVRAM, function 0x41, rc=0x82.

C:\

Bummer. It works for my two generations of AMI BIOS. :-(

I think I will resign myself to having a faulty motherboard. It is not as
if I need those devices in this computer and I can't afford the down time
to send the board away because I use this PC for software development
work.

Thanks for your help anyway.

There may be another way to retrieve this information but it is a
little more involved. You may be able to use your BIOS flash utility
(or Uniflash?) to save an image of your BIOS EEPROM and then use a hex
editor to manually extract the ESCD table from this image. Look for an
"ACFG" signature preceded by two size bytes. Write this ACFG data
block to a file and then submit this file to NVRAM120.EXE.

I'd try AWDFLASH with the /pn /sy /cp switches. Type "awdflash /?" for
a list of command line options.

See http://www.biosman.com/bios-flash.html

If you email your BIOS image to me, I'll see what I can deduce from
it. I'll also post it on my web space for others to look at.

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:29:05 +1000, Franc Zabkar wrote:


There may be another way to retrieve this information but it is a little
more involved. You may be able to use your BIOS flash utility (or
Uniflash?) to save an image of your BIOS EEPROM and then use a hex
editor to manually extract the ESCD table from this image. Look for an
"ACFG" signature preceded by two size bytes. Write this ACFG data block
to a file and then submit this file to NVRAM120.EXE.

I read the BIOS image and then had a look at the .bin file. There is no
"ACFG" pattern in it, but I did see a text string with the word "bios
compression =" so I guess that some of the data in the file is compressed.

For what it is worth I submitted the .bin file to the nvram120 utility
but it told me the file was no good.

Thanks for your help.