New subject: flashrom Digest, Vol 12, Issue 35

20 May 2010


      Hello Guenter,
Thank you for taking the time to look for info about my MB. It is very
similar to the one in the picture that you asked me to look at.
I guess I have found the chip that you need to know about. It was covered by
a heatsink and that's why I didn't see it. I hope this is the one. If it is
not I will ask a friend to take a good picture of my MB. Please let me know.
The chip that I uncovered says:
Intel
*NH82801IR*
L7395128
SLA9N
On the board I can also read:
Foxconn DG33M03
SE0709
Rev A00
Hope that this helps.
Thank you!
Julio
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Re: disaster (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger)
Re: disaster (Julio Barrios)
Re: disaster (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger)
Re: disaster (Julio Barrios)
Re: disaster (Guenter)
TYAN s3992 (Alessandro Gervaso)


Message: 1
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:50:39 +0200
From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net
To: Julio Barrios jvbn.barrios@yahoo.co.uk, flashrom
       flashrom@flashrom.org
Subject: Re: [flashrom] disaster
Message-ID: 4BF513FF.60006@gmx.net
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi Julio,
it seems flashrom@flashrom.org was left out of the conversation by
accident. I've added it back, please use the "reply all" button in the
future.
On 20.05.2010 12:12, Julio Barrios wrote:
...
Hi Carl-Daniel, Joseph and Michael,
Many thanks for your replies. I very much appreciate it. I'm not sure if
a
...
flash chip is the same as the BIOS chip (I'm a complete newbie here and
am
...
just learning a bit, and destroying computers along the way it seems
LOL!).
...
Anyway, my BIOS is a Phoenix D686 and my PC is a Dell Inspiron 530.
"Phoenix D686" is probably written on a sticker. Can you peel off the
sticker and tell us what's written on the BIOS flash chip?
...
By the look of things, I guess that I will need to buy a new motherboard.
If
...
that is the case, then I will need to buy one that is compatible with
linux
...
because I'm not prepared to give up Ubuntu and go back to Windows.
If you need any more information so that you can help me, please let me
know.
Some people/companies in the UK offer services to reflash mainboards.
That might be what you want, but I'm not sure if the shipping cost is
worth it.
Besides that, some vendors might offer top hat flash solutions for your
board, but I'm not 100% sure about this.
...
Again, guys, thanks a lot.
Julio
Good luck!
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
...
On 20 May 2010 09:45, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:
...
Hi Julio,
please note that the method in the link can destroy your mainboard if
your flash chip uses a different interface (very likely). See below for
details.
On 20.05.2010 09:37, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
...
On 20.05.2010 00:44, Joseph Smith wrote:
...
On 05/19/2010 06:38 PM, Michael Karcher wrote:
...
IIRC, we recently had a link showing two stacked flash chips (but I
think they were parallel, not LPC/FWH) with some control signals only
connected to the top one - the idea was to mount a working flash chip
on
...
...
...
top of the one with damaged/wrong contents without removing the lower
one from the system. Anyone knows what I'm talking about and still
has
...
...
...
...
...
the link?
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-April/020384.html
The back-to-back socket solution (sometimes also marketed as top hat
flash) would be the one which does not require soldering on the board
and thus has a lower risk.
The best way to figure this out is to find out which flash chip you have
and tell us. Then we can try to find out which pins need to be bent and
disconnected.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
--
http://www.hailfinger.org/
--
http://www.hailfinger.org/

Message: 2
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 12:15:15 +0100
From: Julio Barrios jvbn.barrios@yahoo.co.uk
To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net
Cc: flashrom flashrom@flashrom.org
Subject: Re: [flashrom] disaster
Message-ID:
       AANLkTilTQN-bhH1p9ZNKpaKoM1lPNpMhkpFINbRb6RaK@mail.gmail.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Carl-Daniel,
Sorry about not sending my message in the correct way.
I have now peeled off the sticker. This is what is on the flash chip:
iTE
IT8718F-S
2M24MA L
I hope this means something to you.
Best regarsd,
Julio
On 20 May 2010 11:50, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:
...
Hi Julio,
it seems flashrom@flashrom.org was left out of the conversation by
accident. I've added it back, please use the "reply all" button in the
future.
On 20.05.2010 12:12, Julio Barrios wrote:
...
Hi Carl-Daniel, Joseph and Michael,
Many thanks for your replies. I very much appreciate it. I'm not sure
if
...
a
...
flash chip is the same as the BIOS chip (I'm a complete newbie here and
am
...
just learning a bit, and destroying computers along the way it seems
LOL!).
...
Anyway, my BIOS is a Phoenix D686 and my PC is a Dell Inspiron 530.
"Phoenix D686" is probably written on a sticker. Can you peel off the
sticker and tell us what's written on the BIOS flash chip?
...
By the look of things, I guess that I will need to buy a new
motherboard.
...
If
...
that is the case, then I will need to buy one that is compatible with
linux
...
because I'm not prepared to give up Ubuntu and go back to Windows.
If you need any more information so that you can help me, please let me
know.
Some people/companies in the UK offer services to reflash mainboards.
That might be what you want, but I'm not sure if the shipping cost is
worth it.
Besides that, some vendors might offer top hat flash solutions for your
board, but I'm not 100% sure about this.
...
Again, guys, thanks a lot.
Julio
Good luck!
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
...
On 20 May 2010 09:45, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:
...
Hi Julio,
please note that the method in the link can destroy your mainboard if
your flash chip uses a different interface (very likely). See below
for
...
...
...
details.
On 20.05.2010 09:37, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
...
On 20.05.2010 00:44, Joseph Smith wrote:
...
On 05/19/2010 06:38 PM, Michael Karcher wrote:
> IIRC, we recently had a link showing two stacked flash chips (but I
> think they were parallel, not LPC/FWH) with some control signals
only
...
...
...
...
...
> connected to the top one - the idea was to mount a working flash
chip
...
...
...
...
...
>
on
...
...
> top of the one with damaged/wrong contents without removing the
lower
...
...
...
...
...
> one from the system. Anyone knows what I'm talking about and still
has
...
...
...
...
> the link?
>
>
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-April/020384.html
The back-to-back socket solution (sometimes also marketed as top hat
flash) would be the one which does not require soldering on the board
and thus has a lower risk.
The best way to figure this out is to find out which flash chip you
have
...
...
...
and tell us. Then we can try to find out which pins need to be bent
and
...
...
...
disconnected.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
--
http://www.hailfinger.org/
--
http://www.hailfinger.org/

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