Hello, I'm very interested on flashing my laptop, even though the chipset/southbridge appear to be supported in version 2, I would really like to know if this can be done, being a laptop, it would be very difficult for me to recover it from a failed flash attempt. Thank You for your help and information. Alan
Step 1: I have a laptop Acer Aspire AS5515-5879, It lists a motherboard name of “Acer Nile” made by Compal model number KAW60. It originally came with an AMD Athlon 64 2650E that I upgraded to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5050E. The chipset lists as ATI RS690/RS690M, Southbridge is ATI SB600. It comes with embedded ATI Radeon X1200 graphics.
STEP 2: lspci -tvnn output -[0000:00]-+-00.0 ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge [1002:7910] +-01.0-[0000:01]----05.0 ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] [1002:791f] +-06.0-[0000:02-04]----00.0 Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] +-07.0-[0000:05-07]----00.0 Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] +-12.0 ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA [1002:4380] +-13.0 ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) [1002:4387] +-13.1 ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) [1002:4388] +-13.4 ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) [1002:438b] +-13.5 ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) [1002:4386] +-14.0 ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] +-14.1 ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE [1002:438c] +-14.2 ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] +-14.3 ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge [1002:438d] +-14.4-[0000:08-0a]-- +-18.0 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100] +-18.1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101] +-18.2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102] -18.3 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
STEP 3: superiotool -dV does not report any i/o chip
STEP 4: Unknown type device, flashrom -V hangs needing a hard power cycle.
STEP 5: Unknown
STEP 6: No further information available.