We are looking for an X86 ETX board with a BIOS that can be set to *not* execute a memory test.
The reason is that we want to use the upper part of RAM as a nonvolatile area to store logs. These units won't lose power, but should one crash and reboot, we want to look in the logs and see what happened just before the crash. We don't want it trashed between boots. These boxes run Linux, and the kernel has a "mem=" parameter to keep it away from the nonvolatile area. Linux seems to be able to behave accordingly, but we're having trouble with the BIOS.
Thanks.