Hi Stefan,
thank you very much for your reply. So I will see if to keep my motherboard as it is or to change it with a different one.
Have an happy new year! Cheers,
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2015-12-25 2:24 GMT+01:00 Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:55:06 +0000 Federico Tomasi federico.tomasi@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I already tried some time ago to flash my hp xw9300 mainboard bios but
with
no luck. Then I realized that I was using Ubuntu on a VirtualBox so it maybe could not access the mainborad chip...
I retried in these days using an Ubuntu live-cd, and I also read this
old
forum thread
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showpost.php?s=c0347634d93e911f8254f28ec1a83fc1&a...
where a guy tells to have succesfully written a Tyan original bios on
the
HP branded version of the same mainboard (the Tyan K8WE S2895) that is
the
HP XW9300 mainboard. (I didn't connect pins as he edit it wasn't necessary to do that but to enable the jumper of boot block)
Hi Federico,
it seems like different versions of the firmware engage different write protection mechanisms and your version requires either a small piece of code in flashrom to disable the write protection or the ugly hack of connection the respective pins to VDD. The problem is that deriving the right commands for the board is not straight forward and no one bothered to find them yet (it requires reverse engineering the firmware files).
-- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner