* Stefan Reinauer stepan@coresystems.de [060630 21:49]:
Im not sure what u mean by verifing that the image starts 25 a6??? are you talking about an image file taken from the BIOS using VIAs flash utility?
I thought that might be the vendor and device id. In fact it is 8c and 00, as it is a 256kb part
Ok, can you please check out revision 2336. I checked in some untested support for your flash part.
Can you try the following:
Please be careful which chip you use at a time. If you mess the order up you will most likely render your system unusable ...
1. make a copy of your bios:
switch to the EFST, then do:
./flashrom -r legacybios.bin
2. write the copy to your bios savior
switch to the bios savior (Winbond W49F002U)
./flashrom -w legacybios.bin
3. Verify the copy in the bios savior
./flashrom -v legacybios.bin
4. Overwrite the EMST flash to see if the new flashbios version works
switch to the EMST again!
dd if=/dev/zero of=nullbios.bin bs=256k count=1 ./flashbios -w nullbios.bin ./flashbios -v nullbios.bin
(it should say "verified" here!!!!)
then you can write the original bios back to the EMST so you have two valid copies for playing later.
./flashbios -w legacybios.bin ./flashbios -v legacybios.bin
Please post the results here..