[flashrom] P5GC-MX/1333 Motherboard is Supported.please add this to flashrom mediawiki

[Prakash J Kokkatt]

Hello ,
Subject Title is Misleading.
P5GC-MX/1333 Motherboard is Supported.please add this to flashrom mediawiki

Sorry for the trouble,


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Prakash J Kokkatt <pjkonweb at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello ,
> I am sending this report after successful flashing to latest BIOS with
> flashrom tool and as per carldani(irc name) recommendation.
>
> <carldani> debianguy: To add your board to the list, we need some more
> info (just to make sure we can exactly identify the board later).
> [20:28] <debianguy> <carldani> :What info is needed.
> [20:28] <carldani> debianguy: Could you send the output of "lspci
> -nnvvvxxx" and a short success report (preferably also with the logs you
> posted here), and exact name/revision/vendor of your mainboard to
> flashrom at flashrom.org
>
> [20:29] <carldani> debianguy: Oh, and if you have superiotool installed,
> "superiotool -deV" output would be really nice to have as well.
>
> --
> I have a 2.5 year Old Desktop PC with Asus P5GC-MX/1333 Motherboard(Intel
> 945GC Chipset).Asus website verifies this Motherboard By asking to Check the
> Motherboard Physically(on the Centre) to Read "Version 3.xx" For
> P5GC-MX/1333 Board.There is another board *P5GC-MX*  which may not be
> confused with *P5GC-MX/1333*.
> The Version of BIOS was 0312 Which was pretty old.the latest Version is
> 0413 to which I successfully Updated.
> BIOS Source:
> http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
>
> My PC's MAC Address has changed after the flashing Procedure ,resulting in
> renaming of eth0 to eth1 .This warning was also shown:
>
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... Erasing flash before programming... Erasing flash
> chip... *spi_block_erase_20 failed during command execution at address 0x0
> *
> but ,showed:
>
>> SUCCESS.
>>
>> done.
>>
>> Programming page:
>>
>> COMPLETE.
>>
>> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
>>
>
> Apart from that Flashing Procedure went fine.
>
> Since there are few other BIOS releases between 0312 and 0413 ,I have
> updated to intermediate version(0317) ,later on to Update to 0413(and I
> think this step is not really needed).
> Flashrom Version in Debian Repo is not the latest.So ,I built a debian
> package for My use to get latest version*0.9.2-r1043 .*
> --
> Here are the Outputs, Logs of the Flashing Procedure ,Hoping this
> Motherboard Enters the supported list.
> *flashrom Logs:*
> http://flashrom.pastebin.com/aXDL9CgX
> flashing:
> http://flashrom.pastebin.com/Vk9rzb9S
> --
> *Output of "lspci -nnvvxxx" :*
> http://flashrom.pastebin.com/vDq4SWgJ
> *Output of :**"superiotool -deV":*
> http://flashrom.pastebin.com/wwf0E5xg
>
>
> flashrom version used: *flashrom_0.9.2-r1043* (latest snapshot debian
> package custom built)
>
> superiotool on Debian:
> Package: superiotool
> Priority: extra
> Section: utils
> Installed-Size: 2196
> Maintainer: Uwe Hermann <uwe at debian.org>
> Architecture: amd64
> *Version: 0.0+r5050-1*
>
> And I want to Convey My Thanks to This Project.I was contemplating on using
> AFUDOS utility with freedos and memdisk(syslinux) and was not really
> sure.flashrom turned out to be a great tool.Appreciations and Respect.
>
> Regards,
> Prakash Jose Kokkatt
>
>
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