Now that you know your vendor and device ID, cruise on over to ROM-o-matic These instructions are based on my experience with an Award 6.0 based BIOS. gPXE replaces the Intel PXE code included for the on-board NIC. My machines also have three more NICs per box, but they don't factor in to getting gPXE loaded. The on-board NIC on the motherboard is based on the VIa Rhine II chipset. The machines have no local storage at all, just a 1 GHz Via C7 processor and 1 GB of RAM. I am currently using a large number of J7F2WE based motherboards for a computing cluster. If the new BIOS fails, you can switch back to the first, unmodified BIOS ROM, and try again (info from Coreboot). This allows you to boot from one BIOS ROM and then switch to a second BIOS ROM chip for trial flashing. The “ RD1 BIOS Savior” from IOSS is a US$30 device that can plug into a motherboard BIOS ROM socket to allow manual switching between two BIOS chips. You have no recourse but to blame yourself and sit in the dark rocking in the fetal position if this fails. If you don't know what you're doing, don't do it. Note: This is completely without warranty. Jeff Campbell, Turks & Caicos Islands, February 27, 2008
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