Well, yes, I would be interested in trying it, but only if I'm pretty sure it won't bork a $300 motherboard. How confidant can I be that a failure will simply result in a BIOS that does not get written to the PROM, vs. smoke and flames, as it were?
I'm not sure I would know what a valid bios image should look like. I presume most of it would be machine code. Undoubtedly there will be some text strings, but can I be assured if the code has any intelligible parts that it is good? Should I send you the file?
Assuming we can work around the write protections, if any, how good should I feel about a write to the board either working or failing harmlessly?
-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Tauner [mailto:stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 5:07 PM To: Leslie Rhorer Cc: flashrom@flashrom.org Subject: Re: [flashrom] Asus Crosshair II Formula
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 13:47:57 -0500 "Leslie Rhorer" lrhorer@satx.rr.com wrote:
I have an Asus Crosshair II Formula motherboard that I need to flash in order to support a 6 core AMD processor. I'm running Debian "Squeeze" Linux. Here is the output from flashrom:
flashrom v0.9.2-r1141 on Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), built with libpci
hello leslie!
i cant guarantee that the current stable (0.9.4) or current subversion HEAD will work with your board (because it was not tested yet), but if you want to try it, please update first (it will still print the guesswork warning though). testing if read works and produces something that looks like a valid bios image (in a hex editor), is a good start... writing may fail due to write protections, but that would need to be investigated then.