On 15 July 2014 14:13, Jenny Hopkins hopkins.jenny@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 July 2014 11:06, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
Unfortunately I have to replace the old board into my client's machine each time I try and fail miserably to make it work, so it isn't currently plugged in and running to inspect the BIOS version... I did try every combination of boot order, CSM settings though.
I'd be grabbing an ATX power supply, splatting the board on something non-conductive and spinning it up to test *before* putting it in to the clients machine. That way you can test things easier *without* taking the current box offline or going to site to do it, and work out what's going on.
This was a splendid idea, and I've had the client go and inspect an even older mini-ITX machine that he used to run. It only has a 20-way molex, though, whereas the new board requires a 24-way (or 20-way + 4-way) AND a 12V 4-way. I suppose an ATX power supply is non-standard? I can't just use one that is laying about here?
Also, check that you've actually got the ethernet boot rom enabled to allow PXE booting.
OK, noted for when I do get it powered up.
Got a bit further on this: It appears that debian stable won't work with this board unless I do trickery as suggest here - http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article51/debian-efi. We've decided ubuntu will do instead, it's not that important to the client. I've got a working test set-up going now here, thanks Brett, and have confirmed that the BIOS is still on F2. I downloaded the files for upgrading to F4, and created a USB FreeDOS stick to flash with, using debian and uNetBootin (after formatting drive to FAT32)(debian stable laptop boots up from it OK) . Once again, the board simply won't boot from the stick, even with all the cms and legacy support enabled and secure boot disabled.
Once again, I'm wondering if creating the FreeDOS from debian stable could be the problem, or should that not matter? I'm at a lack of windows machines here to create one using rufus, as the vendor suggests.
Any ideas, anyone?
Thanks,
Jenny