On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:30:27AM -0500, Arturo Mann wrote:
Good Morning, Uwe:
I checked for the BIOS support, so, here we go: Password: Calibrating delay loop... ok No LinuxBIOS table found. Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55": Enabling flash write... OK. Pm49FL004 found at physical address: 0xfff80000 Flash part is Pm49FL004 (512 KB) No operations were specified. (And I thought it was an SST49LF family flash). I will try out the bios with this board, just let me buy a couple of blank pm49LF004 parts (incidentally, i am glad it's pm49lfxxx and not sst49lfxxx, the pm49 family is really easy to get here!)
Yep, if you got your spare chips try 'flashrom -r backup.bin' to get your original BIOS, then replace the chip with an empty one (while the PC is running) and try 'flashrom -wv backup.bin' to write it on the empty chip.
If that worked, put away the original chip in a safe place.
Ok, so, after I get my new chips, what proceeds? (I will patch whatever needs to be patched, too!)
Please send the output of 'superiotool -dV', 'lspnp -v', and 'lspci -vvv'. Patch for a first try will follow.
Uwe.