EEPROM not found

[Philippe CABANNES]

> Yours is VT8233.
> I don't know how they are different (couldn't find a datasheet       
> online),                                                             
> but just try inserting this line around line 437 of flash_rom.c      
> (inside enables[] = {...}) and see what happens:
> {0x1106, 0x3177, "VT8233", enable_flash_vt8231},

This doesn´t work but my south bridge is a vt8235.

I also didn´t find data sheets and i really wonder how to do...       
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[ron minnich]

Philippe, this FLASH write problem of yours is getting harder.

I am worried that you have a motherboard with a "secret write enable". If 
this is the case, you have a few choices. One is to take the romimage and 
convert it to a flash image that the standard FLASH rewrite tool can 
handle, and then use the standard tool. The second is to find the "secret 
write enable" and figure out how it works. If you don't do much hardware, 
get a hardware friend to help. This is easier work than it sounds.

Are you sure there is not a flash enable jumper on the board?

ron

[Philippe CABANNES]

Thanks a lot for the advices.

I've tried the utility from via (awfl823b.exe) with their BIOS file   
*.BIN. This worked without problems that's why i think it's not a     
hardware problem.                                                     
Also my motherboard data sheet doesn't mention any jumper to enable   
writting...

You mean i have to convert my romimage in a *.BIN file?               
I've looked for an utility which could do that but i didn't find. Can 
you please give the name.

thanks in advance.                                                    
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[Andrew Ip]

Philippe,
> I've tried the utility from via (awfl823b.exe) with their BIOS file   
> *.BIN. This worked without problems that's why i think it's not a     
> hardware problem.                                                     
> Also my motherboard data sheet doesn't mention any jumper to enable   
> writting...                                                           
> You mean i have to convert my romimage in a *.BIN file?               
> I've looked for an utility which could do that but i didn't find. Can 
> you please give the name.

You should be able to flash romimage using awfl823b.exe.

-Andrew