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

Hi all,

I'm wanting to try the suggestion of putting a new ROM chip on top of the old one (W39V040AP) with a bit of soldering, so I can use both chips. I'm just wondering what chip to ask for? I've been warned about Winbond chips and the technical specs for my chip are: 4mb PLCC32 LPC.

So if I ask for a "4mb PLCC32 LPC Flash-ROM" I should get what I'm after?

Also once I get the chip I'm going to have to 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'll be using Flashrom to do this. Should this be okay?

Many thanks for all your help, it won't be long before I'm back up and running.

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

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

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