P8Z68-V-PRO/GEN3 - Confirm Working

[Alpha Geek]

Confirmed working P8Z68-V-PRO/GEN3 works with 0.9.5.

WARNING: MAC Address of LOM [Lan on Mainboard] will be overwritten with 0x88,0x88,0x88,0x88,0x87,0x88 in place of real MAC Address.

MAC Address is stored in offset 0x1000 - 0x1005 of flashrom image. [verified for BIOS vers 0301, 0402, 3101, 3202].

Editing these addrs, with a MAC address affects the MAC address of the LOM, and remains between power downs.

Congrats on being more reliable so far than the ASUS provided tools, which bricked a board. hot-swapping a ROM on another MB and using flashrom v0.9.5 allowed me to fix. Passing on whatever I know as thanks.

-Alpha

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:13:09 +0000
Alpha Geek  wrote:
> Confirmed working P8Z68-V-PRO/GEN3 works with 0.9.5.
>
> WARNING: MAC Address of LOM [Lan on Mainboard] will be overwritten with 0x88,0x88,0x88,0x88,0x87,0x88 in place of real MAC Address.
>
> MAC Address is stored in offset 0x1000 - 0x1005 of flashrom image. [verified for BIOS vers 0301, 0402, 3101, 3202].
>
> Editing these addrs, with a MAC address affects the MAC address of the LOM, and remains between power downs.
>
> Congrats on being more reliable so far than the ASUS provided tools, which bricked a board. hot-swapping a ROM on another MB and using flashrom v0.9.5 allowed me to fix. Passing on whatever I know as thanks.

Hi there and thanks for your report.
Could you please send a verbose (e.g. flashrom -VV) log of flashrom
running on that board?
It is a bit surprising to see a report that this board works, while the
"gen 1" version is locked down
(http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-January/008469.html).

[Alpha Geek]

Here you go.

I verified a successful flash via flashing with flashrom 0.9.5, and then a read and compare with a "BlackCat USB SPI Programmer".

-Alpha

flashrom -w followed by flashrom -r also works, and reports no differences.
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:49:38 +0200
> From: [e-mail]
> To: [e-mail]
> CC: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [flashrom] P8Z68-V-PRO/GEN3 - Confirm Working
>
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:13:09 +0000
> Alpha Geek  wrote:
> > Confirmed working P8Z68-V-PRO/GEN3 works with 0.9.5.
> >
> > WARNING: MAC Address of LOM [Lan on Mainboard] will be overwritten with 0x88,0x88,0x88,0x88,0x87,0x88 in place of real MAC Address.
> >
> > MAC Address is stored in offset 0x1000 - 0x1005 of flashrom image. [verified for BIOS vers 0301, 0402, 3101, 3202].
> >
> > Editing these addrs, with a MAC address affects the MAC address of the LOM, and remains between power downs.
> >
> > Congrats on being more reliable so far than the ASUS provided tools, which bricked a board. hot-swapping a ROM on another MB and using flashrom v0.9.5 allowed me to fix. Passing on whatever I know as thanks.
>
> Hi there and thanks for your report.
> Could you please send a verbose (e.g. flashrom -VV) log of flashrom
> running on that board?
> It is a bit surprising to see a report that this board works, while the
> "gen 1" version is locked down
> (http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2012-January/008469.html).
> -- 
> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner

[Stefan Tauner]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:25:58 +0000
Alpha Geek  wrote:
> Here you go.
>
> I verified a successful flash via flashing with flashrom 0.9.5, and then a read and compare with a "BlackCat USB SPI Programmer".

thanks a lot!
I have have added the board to our list with an appropriate note
regarding the mac address and will commit that later together with other
small changes.