[LinuxBIOS] ICH4 BIOS chip not recognised.

Raúl Sánchez Siles rasasi78 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 01:51:59 CEST 2007


Hello all:

I was interested in upgrading my computer BIOS. This is a laptop Dell
Inspiron 510m. The mother board is an ICH4, more details on request.

So I came across flashroom and I tried to use it, and since the motherboard
was recognised, there wasn't that luck with the BIOS chip. After all this I
effectively did the upgrade but using the manufacturer recommended biosdisk 
method (it worked).

But after that I wanted to know more and aafter some talk with someone at
the channel, he (sorry I can't remember your name) told me to send the
flashrom -V report here and here I am:

flashrom -V
Calibrating delay loop... 376M loops per second. ok
No LinuxBIOS table found.
Found chipset "ICH4-M": Enabling flash write... OK.
Probing for Am29F040B, 512 KB
probe_29f040b: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for Am29F016D, 2048 KB
probe_29f040b: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
Probing for AE49F2008, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for At29C040A, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for At29C020, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for Mx29f002, 256 KB
probe_29f002: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST29EE020A, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST28SF040A, 512 KB
probe_28sf040: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST39SF010A, 128 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST39SF020A, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST39SF040, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST39VF020, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF040B, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF040, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF020A, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF080A, 1024 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF002A/B, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF003A/B, 384 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF004A/B, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF008A, 1024 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for Pm49FL002, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF004C, 512 KB
probe_49lfxxxc: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF008C, 1024 KB
probe_49lfxxxc: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for SST49LF016C, 2048 KB
probe_49lfxxxc: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
Probing for SST49LF160C, 2048 KB
probe_49lfxxxc: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
Probing for Pm49FL004, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for W29C011, 128 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for W29C020C, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for W49F002U, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for W49V002A, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for W49V002FA, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for W39V040FA, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for W39V040A, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for W39V040B, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for W39V080A, 1024 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for M29F002B, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for M29F002T/NT, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for M29F400BT, 512 KB
probe_m29f400bt: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for M29F040B, 512 KB
probe_29f040b: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for 82802ab, 512 KB
probe_82802ab: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for 82802ac, 1024 KB
probe_82802ab: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for F49B002UA, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for LHF00L04, 1024 KB
probe_lhf00l04: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for S29C51001T, 128 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for S29C51002T, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for S29C51004T, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
Probing for S29C31004T, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xea, id2 0xf0
No EEPROM/flash device found.


Regards,





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