Hello, I have tried to flash the BIOS of my motherboard. It's a Gigabyte G33M-DS2R (ICH9R + SST SST25VF080B" (1024 KB)).
[root@scarabee benjamin]# flashrom --version flashrom v0.9.0
(on Fedora 11 x86_64)
Here is the log of the flash (my motherboard was previously in version F7) :
flashrom --write ./G33MDS2R.F8 Calibrating delay loop... OK. No coreboot table found. Found chipset "Intel ICH9R", enabling flash write... OK. Found chip "SST SST25VF080B" (1024 KB) at physical address 0xfff00000. === This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: READ ERASE WRITE Please email a report to flashrom@coreboot.org if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the full output from the program, including chipset found. Thank you for your help! === Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Programming page:
[root@scarabee motherboard_bios_ga-g33m-ds2r_f8]#
and I check the BIOS :
[root@scarabee motherboard_bios_ga-g33m-ds2r_f8]# flashrom --verify ./G33MDS2R.F8 Calibrating delay loop... OK. No coreboot table found. Found chipset "Intel ICH9R", enabling flash write... OK. Found chip "SST SST25VF080B" (1024 KB) at physical address 0xfff00000. === This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: READ ERASE WRITE Please email a report to flashrom@coreboot.org if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the full output from the program, including chipset found. Thank you for your help! === Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0x00, Read=0x01 [root@scarabee motherboard_bios_ga-g33m-ds2r_f8]#
and when I try to erase it :
[root@scarabee benjamin]# flashrom --erase Calibrating delay loop... OK. No coreboot table found. Found chipset "Intel ICH9R", enabling flash write... OK. Found chip "SST SST25VF080B" (1024 KB) at physical address 0xfff00000. === This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: READ ERASE WRITE Please email a report to flashrom@coreboot.org if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the full output from the program, including chipset found. Thank you for your help! === Erasing flash chip... FAILED! ERROR at 0x00000000: Expected=0xff, Read=0x01 [root@scarabee benjamin]#
I can post the entire log (--write --verbose) if you want.
What can I do, is my BIOS really write or not ? Can I reboot ?
Thanks for your time.
Benjamin (from France)