On Sunday 25 November 2007 11:45, Corey Osgood wrote: ...
Some HP laptops these days use SPI flash, which flashrom can do only in one special situation (afaik), Gigabyte m57sli. Also, the flash may have protection coming from the embedded controller or GPIO lines, which flashrom knows nothing about.
Last time I flashed my HP laptop's bios, I took a windows 98se iso, added the bios and flash utility to it with an iso editor, and then burned and booted from it. I ran the utility through dos, and it worked fine. This should also work fine with a custom cd and the floppy emulation, with a 98se boot disk as the source. K3b can do the dirty work.
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Sorry, can't be of much help.
-Corey
Yeah, I know there's a good chance that it won't work. But I'm willing to give it a shot if I can. HP is stingy with h/w info, and I haven't yet figured out the secret handshake to open the case and see who's m/b it is. I've been able to determine that it uses NVidia MCP51, which has a "?" under the supported column. Maybe I can at least contribute to getting it supported.
Shocky