Flashrom finds the chipset to be VIA VT8237, and the actual chip it finds is a PMC Pm49FL004 512KB @ 0xfff80000. This is what I get now, I'm going to try your suggestion and have a look in the scrapyard, I think there's one quite close by. kind Regards Phil
--- On Sun, 14/6/09, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net Subject: Re: [coreboot] Hosed ms-7032, I foolishly flashed the bios with a .700 To: philneary@yahoo.co.uk Cc: coreboot@coreboot.org Date: Sunday, 14 June, 2009, 12:26 AM On 12.06.2009 13:47, philneary@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
So if I ask for a "4mb PLCC32 LPC Flash-ROM" I should
get what I'm after?
Yes, that should work. Make sure that what you get is a 4 Mbit chip, not a 4 MByte chip. As an alternative, you could look in a scrapyard for broken boards which have compatible LPC chips in a socket. As a rough guideline, probably all AMD64 capable boards should have compatible chips (except for the most recent boards which have 8-pin SPI chips).
[...] hot flash it with the correct bios. I'm using my
friends PC to do this and it has a Foxconn P4M8907MA-KRS2H motherboard.
I'm only 90% sure about this. It has a VIA chipset as well, but to be sure it would be nice if you could run flashrom on that board and tell us which chip it detects.
Regards, Carl-Daniel