To the Linux users out there, I believe there are a few tricks you can work with your K7S5A motherboard.
1. To verify if your K7S5A 1.x/3.x has SSE enabled on Athlon XP Thoroughbed (after flashing Honey X bios, or official 030811 non-Pro Bios), you can do it in command line under Linux, by:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
For example, I have an Athlon XP 2000+ and my result is like this:
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon XP 2000+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1659.627
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3316.12
As you can see, there is NO "sse" in the flags entry (as my K7S5A is still using the official 021029.rom bios), so after flashing Honey X Bios/Official non-Pro 030811 Bios, you can double-check it again on Linux.
2. With nVidia Linux OpenGL driver, glxinfo will also display whether SSE is supported:
$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
.
.
.
.
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce2 GTS/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 1.4.0 NVIDIA 46.20
With SSE enabled, SSE should be there in the "OpenGL renderer string", if you don't see it, then it's still disabled.
3. Here are the steps to download and extract, for eg., official 030811 Bios for PCB 1.x/3.x (non-Pro) motherboard:
$ wget ftp://ftp.ecs.com.tw/bios/mb/k7/k7s5a/k7s5a030811.exe
$ unzip k7s5a030811.exe
4. Also under Linux, there is a guide for
Monitoring your CPU temperature with gkrellm, ECS K7S5A specific:
www.mandrakeusers.org/ind...topic=2673
TLDP K7s5a How-to:
www.tldp.org/HOWTO/K7s5a-HOWTO.html
Hope these info will be useful to Linux users with K7S5A here.
1. To verify if your K7S5A 1.x/3.x has SSE enabled on Athlon XP Thoroughbed (after flashing Honey X bios, or official 030811 non-Pro Bios), you can do it in command line under Linux, by:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
For example, I have an Athlon XP 2000+ and my result is like this:
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon XP 2000+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1659.627
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3316.12
As you can see, there is NO "sse" in the flags entry (as my K7S5A is still using the official 021029.rom bios), so after flashing Honey X Bios/Official non-Pro 030811 Bios, you can double-check it again on Linux.
2. With nVidia Linux OpenGL driver, glxinfo will also display whether SSE is supported:
$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
.
.
.
.
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce2 GTS/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 1.4.0 NVIDIA 46.20
With SSE enabled, SSE should be there in the "OpenGL renderer string", if you don't see it, then it's still disabled.
3. Here are the steps to download and extract, for eg., official 030811 Bios for PCB 1.x/3.x (non-Pro) motherboard:
$ wget ftp://ftp.ecs.com.tw/bios/mb/k7/k7s5a/k7s5a030811.exe
$ unzip k7s5a030811.exe
4. Also under Linux, there is a guide for
Monitoring your CPU temperature with gkrellm, ECS K7S5A specific:
www.mandrakeusers.org/ind...topic=2673
TLDP K7s5a How-to:
www.tldp.org/HOWTO/K7s5a-HOWTO.html
Hope these info will be useful to Linux users with K7S5A here.
