Hi,
Here is some more info regarding my last email. Writing the new flash image failed. Before that I read the old and verified it with flashrom.
//Jonte
--8<--- $ sudo flashrom -v bios_old_2013-05-26.bin flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1517 on Linux 3.2.0-44-generic (x86_64), built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endian flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP67". Enabling flash write... This chipset is not really supported yet. Guesswork... Please send the output of "flashrom -V" to flashrom@flashrom.org with your board name: flashrom -V as the subject to help us finish support for your chipset. Thanks. OK. Found PMC flash chip "Pm49FL004" (512 kB, LPC, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Verifying flash... VERIFIED. jonte@wintermute:/home/jonte$ sudo flashrom -w /mnt/floppy/abit/ ABITFAE.BAT AWDFLASH.EXE M628A_20.BIN M628A_20.TXT RUNME.BAT jonte@wintermute:/home/jonte$ sudo flashrom -w /mnt/floppy/abit/M628A_20.BIN flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1517 on Linux 3.2.0-44-generic (x86_64), built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endian flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP67". Enabling flash write... This chipset is not really supported yet. Guesswork... Please send the output of "flashrom -V" to flashrom@flashrom.org with your board name: flashrom -V as the subject to help us finish support for your chipset. Thanks. OK. Found PMC flash chip "Pm49FL004" (512 kB, LPC, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff: 0x6ee ERASE FAILED! Reading current flash chip contents... done. ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x6ee ERASE FAILED! Reading current flash chip contents... done. ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x5f21f ERASE FAILED! FAILED! Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything changed. Good. It seems nothing was changed. Writing to the flash chip apparently didn't do anything. This means we have to add special support for your board, programmer or flash chip. Please report this on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or mail flashrom@flashrom.org! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You may now reboot or simply leave the machine running.