Success: flashing BIOS on MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital (MS-7368)

Hello flashrom people,

here is a quick success report on using flashrom with the MS-7368 
(revision 1.0; I don't believe there are any later revisions, but I'm 
not sure). The exact flashrom version used was v0.9.1, SVN revision 
r721.

In particular, I first upgraded the BIOS from version 1.9 to 1.10 (named 
1.A on the MSI website), then downgraded to 1.7 and re-upgraded to 1.8 
and finally to 1.10 again, with a reboot following each flashing. I also 
played around with a few of the flashrom options and everything worked 
flawlessly OOTB.

Some details:

# ./flashrom -r ...
flashrom v0.9.1-runknown
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "AMD SB600", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "Winbond W25x80" (1024 KB, SPI) at physical address 
0xfff00000.
Reading flash... done.

# ./superiotool
superiotool r4623
Found Fintek F71882FG/F71883FG (vid=0x3419, id=0x4105) at 0x4e

Platform: Linux 2.6.30-ARCH x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 
4850e

Probably nothing more to add, except that flashrom absolutely rocks :)

Thanks and kudos,
ch

[Uwe Hermann]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:39:27PM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hello flashrom people,
>
> here is a quick success report on using flashrom with the MS-7368 
> (revision 1.0; I don't believe there are any later revisions, but I'm 
> not sure). The exact flashrom version used was v0.9.1, SVN revision 
> r721.
>
> In particular, I first upgraded the BIOS from version 1.9 to 1.10 (named 
> 1.A on the MSI website), then downgraded to 1.7 and re-upgraded to 1.8 
> and finally to 1.10 again, with a reboot following each flashing. I also 
> played around with a few of the flashrom options and everything worked 
> flawlessly OOTB.

Thanks, update committed in r734, wiki updated.

Uwe.