Re: [coreboot] Hosed ms-7032, I foolishly flashed the bios with a .700

[Phil Neary]

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  wrote:
> From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] Hosed ms-7032, I foolishly flashed the bios with a .700
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Date: Sunday, 14 June, 2009, 12:26 AM
> On 12.06.2009 13:47, [e-mail]
> 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

Hosed ms-7032, I foolishly flashed the bios with a .700

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 14.06.2009 12:48, Phil Neary wrote:
> Flashrom finds the chipset to be VIA VT8237, and the actual chip it finds is a PMC Pm49FL004 512KB @ 0xfff80000.

Pm49FL004 chips are very compatible (they can speak LPC and FWH). If you
find one of them in the scrapyard, take it. They seem to ignore the ID
pins, though, so I can't guarantee chip stacking will work, but full
replacement should be fine.

Good luck finding the right chips! (Look for 49 in the model number,
that's a pretty good indicator the chip is either LPC or FWH).
Oh, and while you're at the scrapyard, it might be prudent to fetch
whole boards (or desolder the flash sockets from them and take the
sockets with you).

Regards,
Carl-Daniel