Re: PCI cards and Phoenix BIOS

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>Hello,
>
>I've got a problem using PCI cards, namely Intel 82558 and 3com905B,
>on certain makes of motheboards that use Phoenix Bios 4.0 Release 6.0,
>like Intel MU440EX. The bios does not seem to be detecting bootrom at all.
>
>I have tryed both etherboot 4.0 with eepro100 patches and netboot 8.1.
>The same cards with the same PROM's boot perfectly well in other systems.
>
>I have contacted the manufacturer and they say that the same BIOS
>does detects commercial BootRoms.

The only thing I can think of is that your EPROMs may not be fast enough
for that motherboard.