ASUS M488t-m

[Dave Houston]

Afternoon all,

I have an ASUS M488t-m which is very close to m4a785-m. I am currently making sure that I have a method to reflash should my build is bad ( which it most likely will be ) and I have been doing some digging regarding my Flash chip. The data sheet suggests that the current chip is 16Mb http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/272751/EON/EN25F16.html.

High resolution of mainboard: http://media.ldlc.com/ld/products/00/00/77/92/LD0000779214_2.jpg

I have included all relevant output below. Is there any gotchas I should be aware of and is there a good flashing solution (I'm not adverse to buying a hardware solution ) ?

Flashrom output
> flashrom v0.9.1-r946
> No coreboot table found.
> Found ITE Super I/O, id 8712
> Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "Eon EN25F16" (2048 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xffe00000.
> ===
> This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE
> Please email a report to [e-mail] if any of the above operations
> work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the flashrom
> output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested (-V, -rV,
> -wV, -EV), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.
> Thanks for your help!
> ===
> No operations were specified.

SuperIOTool -d output
> Found ITE IT8712F (id=0x8712, rev=0x8) at 0x2e
> Register dump:
> idx 20 21 22 23 24 2b
> val 87 12 08 00 00 00
> def 87 12 08 00 00 00
> LDN 0x00 (Floppy)
> idx 30 60 61 70 74 f0 f1
> val 00 03 f0 06 02 00 00
> def 00 03 f0 06 02 00 00
> LDN 0x01 (COM1)
> idx 30 60 61 70 f0 f1 f2 f3
> val 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 7f
> def 00 03 f8 04 00 50 00 7f
> LDN 0x02 (COM2)
> idx 30 60 61 70 f0 f1 f2 f3
> val 00 02 f8 03 00 50 00 7f
> def 00 02 f8 03 00 50 00 7f
> LDN 0x03 (Parallel port)
> idx 30 60 61 62 63 70 74 f0
> val 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00
> def 00 03 78 07 78 07 03 03
> LDN 0x04 (Environment controller)
> idx 30 60 61 62 63 70 f0 f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6
> val 01 02 90 02 30 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 ff
> def 00 02 90 02 30 09 00 00 00 00 00 NA NA
> LDN 0x05 (Keyboard)
> idx 30 60 61 62 63 70 71 f0
> val 01 00 60 00 64 01 02 04
> def 01 00 60 00 64 01 02 08
> LDN 0x06 (Mouse)
> idx 30 70 71 f0
> val 01 0c 02 00
> def 00 0c 02 00
> LDN 0x07 (GPIO)
> idx 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2c 60 61 62 63 64 65 70 71 72 73 74 b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b8 b9 ba bb bc bd c0 c1 c2 c3 c4 c8 c9 ca cb cc e0 e1 e2 e3 e4 f0 f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 f7 f8 f9 fa fb fc fd
> val c1 a0 00 00 80 01 1f 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 01 00 38 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 a0 00 00 00 40 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1a 00 00 00 00 01 00 00
> def 01 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 40 00 01 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 NA 00
> LDN 0x08 (MIDI port)
> idx 30 60 61 70 f0
> val 00 03 00 0a 00
> def 00 03 00 0a 00
> LDN 0x09 (Game port)
> idx 30 60 61
> val 00 02 01
> def 00 02 01
> LDN 0x0a (Consumer IR)
> idx 30 60 61 70 f0
> val 00 03 10 0b 06
> def 00 03 10 0b 00
> $ lspci -tvnn
> -[0000:00]-+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate [1022:9601]
>  +-01.0-[0000:01]--+-05.0 ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:9715]
>  |  -05.1 ATI Technologies Inc RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200] [1002:970f]
>  +-0a.0-[0000:02]----00.0 Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168]
>  +-11.0 ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
>  +-12.0 ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
>  +-12.1 ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
>  +-12.2 ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
>  +-13.0 ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
>  +-13.1 ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
>  +-13.2 ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
>  +-14.0 ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385]
>  +-14.1 ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller [1002:439c]
>  +-14.2 ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383]
>  +-14.3 ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d]
>  +-14.4-[0000:03]--
>  +-14.5 ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller [1002:4399]
>  +-18.0 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
>  +-18.1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map [1022:1201]
>  +-18.2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
>  +-18.3 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
>  -18.4 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control [1022:1204]

Many thanks

Dave

[Scott Duplichan]

Dave Houston wrote:

]Afternoon all,
]
]I have an ASUS M488t-m which is very close to m4a785-m. I am currently making
]sure that I have a method to reflash should my build is bad ( which it most
]likely will be ) and I have been doing some digging regarding my Flash chip.
]The data sheet suggests that the current chip is 16Mb
]http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/272751/EON/EN25F16.html.

I have a board with the same flash chip and use DediProg SF100 for programming.
I use a clip similar to this to connect it to the DediProg:
http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts-kws/8-pin-ic-dil-clip

]High resolution of mainboard: http://media.ldlc.com/ld/products/00/00/77/92/LD0000779214_2.jpg
]
]I have included all relevant output below. Is there any gotchas I should be
]aware of and is there a good flashing solution (I'm not adverse to buying a
]hardware solution ) ?

As long as you can easily program the flash and also connect the serial port
for logging then progress is possible. I think you have to supply the serial
port cable that connects to the motherboard com1 header.

Thanks,
Scott

]Many thanks
]
]Dave