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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