My Success Story - flashrom

29 May 2010


      hello, i updated the Bios of my Motherboard
Brand: Gigabyte GA-770TA-UD3
update from F3C to F3
Gentoo Linux
www.sysprofile.de/id31679
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      boerni-workstation loop # /usr/local/sbin/flashrom -w 770TAUD3.F3
   2.
      flashrom v0.9.2-r1017 on Linux 2.6.34 (x86_64), built with libpci
      3.1.4, GCC 4.4.3, little endian
   3.
      flashrom is free software, get the source code at
      http://www.flashrom.org
   4.
   5.
      Calibrating delay loop... OK.
   6.
      No coreboot table found.
   7.
      Found ITE Super I/O, id 8720
   8.
      Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK.
   9.
      This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
  10.
      Found chip "Macronix MX25L8005" (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address
      0xfff00000.
  11.
      ===
  12.
      This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: ERASE
  13.
      The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest
      development
  14.
      version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development
      version,
  15.
      please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org if any of the above
      operations
  16.
      work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the
      flashrom
  17.
      output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested
      (-V, -Vr,
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      -Vw, -VE), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.
  19.
      Thanks for your help!
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      ===
  21.
      Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
  22.
      Writing flash chip... Erasing flash before programming... Erasing
      flash chip... SUCCESS.
  23.
      done.
  24.
      Programming flash done.
  25.
      COMPLETE.
  26.
      Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
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      boerni-workstation loop #