Hello everyone, just wanted to report successful read from 8mbit (1mb) MACRONIX MX 25L800(5PC-15G) chip and write to 64mbit (8mb) WINBOND 25Q64F(VAIQ) chip. I've used some old ASUS motherboard dating from May 2009 (could check exact model if needed) asbase for flashing. Booted it into prepared FreeDOS usb stick with flashrom, made backup of MACRONIX chip, hot swapped it with WINBOND chip and flashed it with new image. Everything worked like a charm and thanks so much to all people which created this great tool!
Additionaly, if this will be of any help to somebody, new image / WINBOND chip was for AsRock Extreme 4+ FM2A88M motherboard, downloaded at http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/FM2A88M%20Extreme4+/?cat=Download&os=BIOS.V... was 2.80 for "Instant Flash" and encapsulation in BIOS image file found inside ZIP archive (size 8mb+4kb) was trimmed to exactly 8mb using another great tool: https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool. Greetings,Marin.
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 15:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Marin Vlah mvlah@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello everyone, just wanted to report successful read from 8mbit (1mb) MACRONIX MX 25L800(5PC-15G) chip and write to 64mbit (8mb) WINBOND 25Q64F(VAIQ) chip. I've used some old ASUS motherboard dating from May 2009 (could check exact model if needed) asbase for flashing. Booted it into prepared FreeDOS usb stick with flashrom, made backup of MACRONIX chip, hot swapped it with WINBOND chip and flashed it with new image. Everything worked like a charm and thanks so much to all people which created this great tool!
Additionaly, if this will be of any help to somebody, new image / WINBOND chip was for AsRock Extreme 4+ FM2A88M motherboard, downloaded at http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/FM2A88M%20Extreme4+/?cat=Download&os=BIOS.V... was 2.80 for "Instant Flash" and encapsulation in BIOS image file found inside ZIP archive (size 8mb+4kb) was trimmed to exactly 8mb using another great tool: https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool. Greetings,Marin.
Hello Marin,
thanks for your report! Both flash chips are already marked as fully tested in the current version of flashrom. However, if the board you have used for flashing is not already found in the wiki at https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware we could add it you supply the exact model.
If possible, please always include a (verbose) log with such reports so that we can verify them and also look for oddities that might be interesting for our future work, thanks. You can easily create it by using the -o option of flashrom, e.g.: flashrom -p internal -o logfile.txt
Hello Stefan, it's my mistake and my apologies for wasting your timecaused by not firstly checking supported hardware list carefully. About motherboard - can see some very similar marked MoBosbut not exactly this one, so I write you my model of Mobo / PC. Motherboard: P5KPL-VMhttps://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5KPLVM/ Found in this branded PC: ASUS V-P5G31 MINI PChttps://www.asus.com/Mini-PCs/V3P5G31/ I attach you log created while reading MACRONIX MX 25L800chip used on this MoBo. Greetings,Marin.
From: Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at To: Marin Vlah mvlah@yahoo.com Cc: flashrom@flashrom.org Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2016 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [flashrom] REPORT: MACRONIX MX 25L800(5PC-15G) AND WINBOND 25Q64F(VAIQ)
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 15:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Marin Vlah mvlah@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello everyone, just wanted to report successful read from 8mbit (1mb) MACRONIX MX 25L800(5PC-15G) chip and write to 64mbit (8mb) WINBOND 25Q64F(VAIQ) chip. I've used some old ASUS motherboard dating from May 2009 (could check exact model if needed) asbase for flashing. Booted it into prepared FreeDOS usb stick with flashrom, made backup of MACRONIX chip, hot swapped it with WINBOND chip and flashed it with new image. Everything worked like a charm and thanks so much to all people which created this great tool!
Additionaly, if this will be of any help to somebody, new image / WINBOND chip was for AsRock Extreme 4+ FM2A88M motherboard, downloaded at http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/FM2A88M%20Extreme4+/?cat=Download&os=BIOS.V... was 2.80 for "Instant Flash" and encapsulation in BIOS image file found inside ZIP archive (size 8mb+4kb) was trimmed to exactly 8mb using another great tool: https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool. Greetings,Marin.
Hello Marin,
thanks for your report! Both flash chips are already marked as fully tested in the current version of flashrom. However, if the board you have used for flashing is not already found in the wiki at https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware we could add it you supply the exact model.
If possible, please always include a (verbose) log with such reports so that we can verify them and also look for oddities that might be interesting for our future work, thanks. You can easily create it by using the -o option of flashrom, e.g.: flashrom -p internal -o logfile.txt
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 20:38:19 +0000 (UTC) Marin Vlah mvlah@yahoo.com wrote:
it's my mistake and my apologies for wasting your timecaused by not firstly checking supported hardware list carefully. About motherboard - can see some very similar marked MoBosbut not exactly this one, so I write you my model of Mobo / PC. Motherboard: P5KPL-VMhttps://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5KPLVM/ Found in this branded PC: ASUS V-P5G31 MINI PChttps://www.asus.com/Mini-PCs/V3P5G31/ I attach you log created while reading MACRONIX MX 25L800chip used on this MoBo.
Hello Marin,
thanks. I have added your board to our list of supported hardware and will commit that later together with other small changes.
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Stefan Tauner