ECS K7S5A and netboot

Postman

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Edit: Fixed broken link.

For those of you interested about it, here's the mail I received from ECS, and the attached BIOS
I haven't gotten time yet to try it myself tho.

Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 10:52:22 +0800
From: Support_TPE <support_tpe@ecs.com.tw>
To: 'Jaakko Saari' <jaakko.saari@xmyy.helia.fi>
Subject: RE: ECS K75SA netboot issue
Part(s): K7S5ALR.ZIP application/octet-stream 626.98 KB Download

Dear sir/madam
Attach the latest with lan Bios dates and bios
utility within mail back. Please see reference
How to Flash the Bios by yourself within Technical
area of our web site.
please key : amixxx(flash utility) xxxx.ROM(bios file)

thank you

Sincerely yours,
Elite Group Computer System CO.,LTD.
Technical Support Team


-----Original Message-----
From: Jaakko Saari [mailto:jaakko.saari@xmyy.helia.fi]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:08 PM
To: support_tpe@ecs.com.tw
Subject: ECS K75SA netboot issue

Hello,

I have several K7S5A LAN boards, and would finally like to receive a bit of
support from ECS. You sell the board with onboard LAN and PXE support, yet
the PXE function is not working, the original revision doesn't even send any
network traffic out even tho boot sequence claims that it is looking for network
server. I even tried the latest bios, and it seems that you have reverted back to
the netware routine.

Could you give a working solution that will enable me to boot with the
onboard LAN with PXE?

A Simple request from a customer that bought your otherwise very good product.

Best regards,
Jaakko Saari
 

Confused

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Cool, thanks for the info Postman :)

I wonder if something like this would work with PCI lan, as mine doesn't have onboard LAN, there is the header i think, but i don't have the bracket (unless the pins on the motherboard are just the 4 pins used with Cat5, then i could just wire an RJ45 connector directly to it!

Garry
 

Postman

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Yah it can be done. If you use floppy to load the 16k boot image it's no brainer, installing the bootcode to motherboard BIOS is a bit more tricky.

So far I have gotten it to work only with abit bh-6.

The ECS thing is a bit more different from that since it's supposed to support official PXE protocol booting.
 

Evadman

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I love that board, but have never tried Netboot. It comes up as an option on the loading screen but doesn't work? how stupid.

*adds to K7S5A FAQ*