Hi,
On Sun, Aug 05, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
I'm sorry but I've been unable to get that info from the Dell flash utility. When loaded it's no chance to get any info like that. The only option I'm given is to reflash the BIOS again.
I would be glad to test any other tool/method you propose to get the info.
I use uniflash from:
it tells you that info.
Dieter Bloms wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 05, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
I'm sorry but I've been unable to get that info from the Dell flash utility. When loaded it's no chance to get any info like that. The only option I'm given is to reflash the BIOS again.
I would be glad to test any other tool/method you propose to get the info.
I use uniflash from:
it tells you that info.
I tried it, but not much successfully. It kinda work (as an app) but it didn't get the needed info. I got this:
(FFFF,FFFF) Flash ROM Chip: unknown Organisation: N/A (is write protect disabled?) PCI chipset: Intel 852GM(E)/855GM(E) Last write status: not available
ROM Base: FFFE0000, memory dump at FFFE0000->F0EAF0F0
I tried saving a CMOS copy (seemed to work, but no I didn't have the file later) and also a BIOS copy(same here). On this 2nd uniflash hanged (and the whole system)
At first I thought it was a disk access problem but then I run uniflash, quit and the run again. The system hanged again so my BIOS should be really crappy.
I don't know how much info could you extract from these lines, but I'm afraid there's little to do with this board.
Thanks.
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:26:26AM +0200, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
I use uniflash from:
I tried it, but not much successfully. It kinda work (as an app) but it didn't get the needed info. I got this:
(FFFF,FFFF) Flash ROM Chip: unknown Organisation: N/A (is write protect disabled?) PCI chipset: Intel 852GM(E)/855GM(E) Last write status: not available
It does ID your chipset but it seems the flash chip is write protected with some unknown GPIO, which makes it impossible to identify or write the flash chip from software.
You could perhaps identify the flash chip by visual inspection but that won't allow us to write it anyway. :\
I would really like to set up a sandbox for proprietary flashers so that we can easily learn what they are doing.
I don't know how much info could you extract from these lines,
None, unfortunately.
but I'm afraid there's little to do with this board.
Unless the BIOS chip is socketed and you have a way of flashing the chip outside of the system. (Using another, supported, mainboard e.g.)
//Peter
Peter Stuge wrote:
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:26:26AM +0200, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
I use uniflash from:
I tried it, but not much successfully. It kinda work (as an app) but it didn't get the needed info. I got this:
(FFFF,FFFF) Flash ROM Chip: unknown Organisation: N/A (is write protect disabled?) PCI chipset: Intel 852GM(E)/855GM(E) Last write status: not available
It does ID your chipset but it seems the flash chip is write protected with some unknown GPIO, which makes it impossible to identify or write the flash chip from software.
I think this is a bigger problem, something to do with the ICH flash enable in flashrom. Remember Gürkan Sengün's post: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios/24892 Not a single ICHx board worked. I know that it's possible that _all_ of them have GPIO protection, but I have trouble believing it. I've been planning to look at it, but I simply don't have time, the cn700's eating what little I have. I think something may have gotten changed at some point that broke it, but I don't have anything to back up that theory.
Can anyone report flashrom actually working on any ICH board? If so, what version and board?
-Corey
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 10, Corey Osgood wrote:
Can anyone report flashrom actually working on any ICH board? If so, what version and board?
I can't flash with flashrom, but I can flash my bios with uniflash.
It is a commell lv671 board.
http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LV-671.HTM
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