I've tested reading and writing successfully with flashrom on this motherboard (unfortunately I had to re-write current bios, as a new bios version seems not to be available nowadays), with no particular flags.
I'm attaching: flashrom -V, flashrom -Vr, flashrom -Vw, superiotool and dmidecode.
Best Regards.
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:47:52 +0100 LukenShiro lukenshiro@ngi.it wrote:
Erasing and writing flash chip... Trying erase function 0... 0x000000-0x01ffff:S, 0x020000-0x037fff:S, 0x038000-0x039fff:S, 0x03a000-0x03bfff:S, 0x03c000-0x03ffff:S Erase/write done.
Hello LukenShiro,
thanks for your report! Unfortunately the "S"es in the quote above state that all blocks were skipped (because the data was checked for equality before erasing), so this result is not newsworthy.
If you REALLY want to test flashrom on that hardware you would have to erase it manually with -E and write it afterwards with -w as usual. I am not suggesting this though. If -E works, but -w hits a bug, you are left with an empty flash chip.
Il giorno Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:36:25 +0100 Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at ha scritto:
Erasing and writing flash chip... Trying erase function 0... 0x000000-0x01ffff:S, 0x020000-0x037fff:S, 0x038000-0x039fff:S, 0x03a000-0x03bfff:S, 0x03c000-0x03ffff:S Erase/write done.
thanks for your report! Unfortunately the "S"es in the quote above state that all blocks were skipped (because the data was checked for equality before erasing), so this result is not newsworthy.
Sorry, my fault, I didn't realize it :-/
If you REALLY want to test flashrom on that hardware you would have to erase it manually with -E and write it afterwards with -w as usual. I am not suggesting this though. If -E works, but -w hits a bug, you are left with an empty flash chip.
Unfortunately, it's a PC I cannot actually take the risk on, at the moment, as I don't have a recover means as "parachute". Sorry! Best regards.
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Stefan Tauner