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Re: Changing BIOS settings on nodes
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John Summerfield <[log in to unmask]>
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John Summerfield <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:28:44 +0800
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Honest Guvnor wrote:
> On 9/25/07, Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> What type of hardware is this, branded (HP, IBM, etc) or non-branded?
>>
> The motherboard is an Intel D875PBZ which is a desktop board from a
> few years ago for a Pentium 4. It uses AMIBIOS. The case, power
> supply, floppy, harddisk, fans are whatever was cheapest at the time.
> The nodes are purely for computation.
> 

these are all exactly the same model & revision? Same BIOS version?

I've never tried fiddling with the BIOS from Linux, but never tried it. 
Does dumping NVRAM and restoring it not work?




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Cheers
John

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