[LinuxBIOS] yo, pre-bricking an A8N-E !

[Quux]

wow, it only took me only 3 hrs to pre-brick the Asus A8N-E I got at 
ebay for €22.

I would have been faster, but the ROM / IMAGE SIZE of the current 
revision ist stated as 7F00 instead of  20000hex as in the M57SLI 
target. Once I fixed that I could flash the current revision - and the 
POST card gives me a steady 80.

I keep you guys informed but the ASUS A8N target is not even flashable 
currently (Also the wiki - downloadable ROM image is bad size (20000hex 
required)).  
I plan to put together a CDROM .ISO file (a remastered dream linux) with 
the LB tree and ready-to-flash working filo-ROM-image. should be a 
quickie.     --Q

[Philipp Degler]

On Friday 24 August 2007 00:00:49 Quux wrote:
> wow, it only took me only 3 hrs to pre-brick the Asus A8N-E I got at
> ebay for €22.
>
> I would have been faster, but the ROM / IMAGE SIZE of the current
> revision ist stated as 7F00 instead of  20000hex as in the M57SLI
> target. Once I fixed that I could flash the current revision - and the
> POST card gives me a steady 80.

hm, that is interesting. Actually this is what flashrom returns on my A8N-E:
    # ./flashrom -V
    Calibrating delay loop... 340M loops per second. ok
    No LinuxBIOS table found.
    Found chipset "NVIDIA CK804": Enabling flash write... OK.
    Probing for Am29F040B, 512 KB
    probe_29f040b: id1 0x21, id2 0xa7
    ...
    Probing for SST49LF004A/B, 512 KB
    probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60
    SST49LF004A/B found at physical address: 0xfff80000
    Flash part is SST49LF004A/B (512 KB)
    OK, only ENABLING flash write, but NOT FLASHING.
> I keep you guys informed but the ASUS A8N target is not even flashable
> currently (Also the wiki - downloadable ROM image is bad size (20000hex
> required)).

can you identify the flash chip of your A8N-E ??
> I plan to put together a CDROM .ISO file (a remastered dream linux) with
> the LB tree and ready-to-flash working filo-ROM-image. should be a
> quickie.     --Q

beeing in the middle of my diploma thesis I havn't checked the current svn for 
a while. Next week I plan to be back at the university where I could get a 
hand on a bios savior in order to check the state of the current svn 
revision.

The last revision, that did work for me was 2724

[Philipp Degler]

On Friday 24 August 2007 00:00:49 Quux wrote:
> wow, it only took me only 3 hrs to pre-brick the Asus A8N-E I got at
> ebay for €22.
>
> I would have been faster, but the ROM / IMAGE SIZE of the current
> revision ist stated as 7F00 instead of  20000hex as in the M57SLI
> target. Once I fixed that I could flash the current revision - and the
> POST card gives me a steady 80.

I had an issue with the ck408 on this board. I was only able to use a single 
dimm and I had to comment a line in raminit.c to get the RAM initialized and 
working with an athlon 64 cpu. 
Please see following mailing list entry for further details:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios/23159/focus=23204
> I keep you guys informed but the ASUS A8N target is not even flashable
> currently (Also the wiki - downloadable ROM image is bad size (20000hex
> required)).
> I plan to put together a CDROM .ISO file (a remastered dream linux) with
> the LB tree and ready-to-flash working filo-ROM-image. should be a
> quickie.     --Q