A-board

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 18.08.2008 17:25, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> Victor Lazzarini wrote:
>   
>> I have an A-board in my office which I would like to bring back to
>> life if possible.
>>     
>> Any suggestions?
>>     
>
> You are running an ATest that was never upgraded from Insyde bios.
>
> If you set the RTC clock back then you can re-establish your eval period.
>
> There are instructions on the wiki for upgrading an ATest from Insyde to 
> OFW but you will have to dig.  Basically you build a bootable usb disk 
> and then use the 'olpcflash' utility to re-flash your firmware image. 
> The olpcflash repo is on dev.l.o.  You will need to build it static.
>
> A further complication is that we dropped support for ATest in the EC 
> code a long time ago.  So you will have to dig through the Firmware page 
> and find the last firmware that supports Atest.
>   

And please check the RAM. Some A-Test boards (including mine) have RAM
which needs a special image. Look for "CL 2.5" in the wiki.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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