Hi Everybody,
I am new here, so my apology if I am doing something wrong. I have ASRock 890GX Extreme3 mainboard. This board has ability to be flashed using standard BIOS, but never the less I decided to test Flashrom. I read the "Board Testing HOWTO" [1]. First signs are that this board will work out of the box with "flashrom v0.9.4-r1394 on Linux 3.0.4-pmagic (i686), built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.6.1, little endian" What I have done so far: 1. Ran 'flashrom' command and it detected the chip: Winbond W25Q80. 2. Ran 'flashrom -R xxxx.rom' and it completed with no errors. I examine the file and it looks like normal ROM file. 3. Ran 'flashrom -V' I am attaching the output. 4. I try comparing the backup copy of the EEPROM with the original file provided by ASRock. It is different. They have exact same header, but quite different. 5. Because I am not 100% sure that I have good backup I decided to order spare chip and continue with the test later. ( I have external EEPROM programmer ) I will continue this weekend.
Thank you and any comments are welcome and highly appreciated, Svetoslav Trochev