Hello , Subject Title is Misleading. P5GC-MX/1333 Motherboard is Supported.please add this to flashrom mediawiki
Sorry for the trouble,
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Prakash J Kokkatt pjkonweb@gmail.comwrote:
Hello , I am sending this report after successful flashing to latest BIOS with flashrom tool and as per carldani(irc name) recommendation.
<carldani> debianguy: To add your board to the list, we need some more info (just to make sure we can exactly identify the board later). [20:28] <debianguy> <carldani> :What info is needed. [20:28] <carldani> debianguy: Could you send the output of "lspci -nnvvvxxx" and a short success report (preferably also with the logs you posted here), and exact name/revision/vendor of your mainboard to flashrom@flashrom.org
[20:29] <carldani> debianguy: Oh, and if you have superiotool installed, "superiotool -deV" output would be really nice to have as well.
-- I have a 2.5 year Old Desktop PC with Asus P5GC-MX/1333 Motherboard(Intel 945GC Chipset).Asus website verifies this Motherboard By asking to Check the Motherboard Physically(on the Centre) to Read "Version 3.xx" For P5GC-MX/1333 Board.There is another board *P5GC-MX* which may not be confused with *P5GC-MX/1333*. The Version of BIOS was 0312 Which was pretty old.the latest Version is 0413 to which I successfully Updated. BIOS Source: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
My PC's MAC Address has changed after the flashing Procedure ,resulting in renaming of eth0 to eth1 .This warning was also shown:
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Writing flash chip... Erasing flash before programming... Erasing flash chip... *spi_block_erase_20 failed during command execution at address 0x0
but ,showed:
SUCCESS.
done.
Programming page:
COMPLETE.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
Apart from that Flashing Procedure went fine.
Since there are few other BIOS releases between 0312 and 0413 ,I have updated to intermediate version(0317) ,later on to Update to 0413(and I think this step is not really needed). Flashrom Version in Debian Repo is not the latest.So ,I built a debian package for My use to get latest version*0.9.2-r1043 .* -- Here are the Outputs, Logs of the Flashing Procedure ,Hoping this Motherboard Enters the supported list. *flashrom Logs:* http://flashrom.pastebin.com/aXDL9CgX flashing: http://flashrom.pastebin.com/Vk9rzb9S -- *Output of "lspci -nnvvxxx" :* http://flashrom.pastebin.com/vDq4SWgJ *Output of :**"superiotool -deV":* http://flashrom.pastebin.com/wwf0E5xg
flashrom version used: *flashrom_0.9.2-r1043* (latest snapshot debian package custom built)
superiotool on Debian: Package: superiotool Priority: extra Section: utils Installed-Size: 2196 Maintainer: Uwe Hermann uwe@debian.org Architecture: amd64 *Version: 0.0+r5050-1*
And I want to Convey My Thanks to This Project.I was contemplating on using AFUDOS utility with freedos and memdisk(syslinux) and was not really sure.flashrom turned out to be a great tool.Appreciations and Respect.
Regards, Prakash Jose Kokkatt