Success: Asus K8V (plain) motherboard (VIA VT8237)

[martin f krafft]

Hey folks,

Just wanted to report success in flashrom'ing a plain Asus K8V (no -X, -SE,
Deluxe, whatever) using the ROM obtained from here:
  http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?product=1&model=K8V

# flashrom -w K8VB1007.AMI
  Calibrating delay loop... OK.
  No coreboot table found.
  Found chipset "VIA VT8237", enabling flash write... OK.
  Found chip "Winbond W29C040P" (512 KB) at physical address 0xfff80000.
  ===
  This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE
  Please email a report to [e-mail] if any of the above operations
  work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the full output
  from the program, including chipset found. Thank you for your help!
  ===
  Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
  Programming page: 2047 at address: 0x0007ff00

Reading and verifying similarly worked.

I used flashrom from Debian lenny, version 0.0+r3397-1.

Thanks a lot. flashrom made my life a lot easier today!

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 13.11.2009 12:29, martin f krafft wrote:
> Just wanted to report success in flashrom'ing a plain Asus K8V (no -X, -SE,
> Deluxe, whatever) using the ROM obtained from here:
> Found chip "Winbond W29C040P" (512 KB) at physical address 0xfff80000.

Thanks for the report! The board has been marked as supported in r758,
and the chip has been marked as supported (with one fix for bad quality
variants of your chip) in r757.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel