flashrom September 2020

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Flashing iPXE rom on motherboard NIC
by bizanmdg＠gmail.com 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

Hi, I did an attempt just to see if flashing a ROM works on my motherboard before flashing i-PXE rom. I try to backup with command: flashrom -p internal -V -r biosback Then flashing the same backup: flashrom -p internal -V -w biosback No error occurs and after a reboot the system is OK. I am frightened to destroy entire BIOS while flashing an i-PXE rom on my onboard NIC. The previous mentioned backup is 1,048,576 bytes and seems realy large and may be it contains bios data other than PXE code. I have doubt where the program retrieve and write his data because there is no atheros feature for it. I want to know if there is any danger to alter the entire BIOS if I flash an i-PXE ROM on my onboard NIC ? Thanks

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Hello FlashRom Rescue Team !
by Jean-Marc Petit 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

A casual story ... a bios of a friend of mine is stuck .... from a fail update through Os Windows 10 by AMI ( gui mode ). About the concerned computer : https://www.packardbell.com/pb/fr/FR/content/download SN : 23502301192 Brand : Packard-Bell Model/number : imedia s2110 I pick the bios update from packard-bell url : so the chosen version is : P11-B3.CAP one the update pass, the computer reboot ... and then 'black screen' - no more display. the mother-board looks on, and beep when I pull off ram. it avoid bios access... I realize cmos reset ( with clear position ), then button battery out ... one thing I note , by some try the fan are high speed ( like in fail safe mode/ or on a new fresh cmos setup ... ) other thing : the Hdd?/cpu? light sometimes is ON until I turn off the computer, but nothing else.. or this light seems to 'works' but 20 seconds and then nothing... I heard Hdd access too, it's a noise I recognize. The POST don't get over.. To comment about firm answer('s) : its money or nothing ... and not costless ( 150 euros... ) , buying a new computer is not so far .... no relevant ways or accurates answers on acer forum ( packard bell is now acer.. ).. and a crowd of 'solutions', do but don't do that.. keystrokes but the other one, but after 3 reboot. As I'm IT worker, but not hardware enough, I have to crawl lots of ressources and docs. So, in front of amibios / afudos / afuwinx64 ... I really don't know which one I need, as I can't confim my USB key is read. I did a usb boot key ( free dos in ), format fat32. with script afudos, then afuminx64 and a batch with amibios advise... but no more display, no more bios. I don't know if I need a keys combination to launch the usb reading ...at startup. I call few It friends , I heard often "only firm can do". ( I don't trust that ... ) Updating a bios is a task I do 1 time a year... computers are globally ok. But it's deep learning for me every time ... I don't know what you can do for me, if you have an answer... I don't know If you need support, or a have pay solutions. Best regards, Jean-Marc Petit France. ( Normandy ). 01:10 AM - sunday 13/09/2020

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Ch341a support
by John Dixon 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

H I have downloaded the most recent version of flashrom in Ubuntu I have a Ch341a programmer. However flashrom is telling me that ch341_sip is not a valid parameter to the programmer switch It is not listed under the valid options in the help page Can you please help Thanks John Sent from my iPhone

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FAILED : ASUS B150i gaming/wifi/aura
by Aghil Saki 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Erasing and writing flash chip... Transaction error between offset 0x000af000 and 0x000affff (= 0x000af000 + 4095)! Looking for another erase function. Looking for another erase function. Looking for another erase function. Looking for another erase function. Looking for another erase function. Looking for another erase function. No usable erase function left. FAILED! UH oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed. Apparently at least some data has changed. Your flash chip is in an unknown state.

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Success Report - Intel Z370 on MSI Z370-A PRO motherboard
by aspen 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I succesfully flashed an official MSI BIOS (version 7B48v2C) onto my MSI Z370-A PRO motherboard (Intel Z370 chipset, Intel Core i7 8086k CPU) using flashrom 1.2. It scared me as first, then it showed the BIOS screen... then rebooted a few times, then it booted succesfully! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYIAB0WIQT9GEgotw7oWiVcdotzKTKWiWXeVgUCX1gJdQAKCRBzKTKWiWXe VuRbAP9KNqpOELFGRFGO3yjHS1jX6dY73+1bJQdPEyhU4BQq1AEAgAZ36LLZs5kg MI4jDZnzxIgMeDNm+2XNCWxj7qWWPQY= =ioGw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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