Hi Anol,
On 16.09.2009 00:29, . . wrote:
Problem is chip not being able to be flashed, looks write-protected. No write-enable jumpers or options in BIOS setup. Here are the requested info's: Motherboard: EPoX EP-8RDA3+ (Rev 2.1) BIOS download location: http://www.epox.ru/downloads.php?file=/data/download/bios/8rd34729.bin
lspci -nnvvvxxx output: ---start--- 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) [10de:01e0] (rev c1) [...] 00:09.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE [10de:0065] (rev a2) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) [...] 01:06.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller [1095:3114] (rev 02) [...] ---end---
Very strange. It seems that the majority of PCI devices on your board is missing is the lspci output above. Are you sure you pasted the full lspci output?
flashrom -V output: ---start--- flashrom v0.9.1-r719 No coreboot table found. Found chipset "NVIDIA NForce2", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI. Calibrating delay loop... 614M loops per second, 100 myus = 201 us. OK. [...] Probing for Winbond W39V040A, 512 KB: probe_jedec: id1 0xda, id2 0x3d Found chip "Winbond W39V040A" (512 KB, LPC) at physical address 0xfff80000. No operations were specified.
Regards, Carl-Daniel