Yes the sst49lf040B came from the 650i and once i got a good boot out of the chip from the A7V8X i was able to hot flash using dr-dos and the factory program. That is only a working solution if your board boots. Tried enabling with factory chip then swapping to flash it still gave the same error. I am more surprised to see that the 650I booted from the sst49lf040, just for grins i ran the flash program on the 040 to see what it detected it as... a sst49lf080A? Oh yeah I found an old file I had lying around it it is supposed to be the full 2 meg award vanilla bios. I thought you guys may be interested in it contains alot of files but requires assembling etc before flashable. I haven't been able to do anything with it yet I got it when I was looking to make this 650I run a 45nm cpu... I don't think I can :) Anywayz it is up for grabs.
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:53:32 +0200 To: mechwarrior5@hotmail.com CC: flashrom@flashrom.org Subject: Re: [flashrom] FW: Asus A7V8X needs a board enable. From: libv@skynet.be
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:31:24AM +0000, Glenn Mueller wrote:
Acked-by: Glenn Mueller (mechwarrior5@hotmail.com)
Erased and flashed successfully the factory chip for the board. Proved this to myself by flashing the bios for my 650i machine onto it and taking the off chance it would boot from it... it did, a hot swap and an awdflash later my 650i is operational again on its factory chip and reflashed the a7v8x with its factory bios too. Good news is it worked perfect. E-mail sent from the 650i even :) Let me know if you still want to try and make the a7v8x flash the other chips or if it doesn't really matter.
Thanks, -> r652
Ok, so flashing worked on the sst49lf040b in the 650i?
Have you tried setting the board enable on the a7v8x with the 040, and only inserting the 040b after this, when the WP and TBL have been raised already?
Luc Verhaegen.
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