[flashrom] disaster

[Julio Barrios]

Hi Carl-Daniel,

Sorry about not sending my message in the correct way.

I have now peeled off the sticker. This is what is on the flash chip:

iTE
IT8718F-S
2M24MA L

I hope this means something to you.

Best regarsd,

Julio

On 20 May 2010 11:50, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Julio,
>
> it seems flashrom at flashrom.org was left out of the conversation by
> accident. I've added it back, please use the "reply all" button in the
> future.
>
> On 20.05.2010 12:12, Julio Barrios wrote:
> > Hi Carl-Daniel, Joseph and Michael,
> >
> > Many thanks for your replies. I very much appreciate it. I'm not sure if
> a
> > flash chip is the same as the BIOS chip (I'm a complete newbie here and
> am
> > just learning a bit, and destroying computers along the way it seems
> LOL!).
> > Anyway, my BIOS is a Phoenix D686 and my PC is a Dell Inspiron 530.
> >
>
> "Phoenix D686" is probably written on a sticker. Can you peel off the
> sticker and tell us what's written on the BIOS flash chip?
>
>
> > By the look of things, I guess that I will need to buy a new motherboard.
> If
> > that is the case, then I will need to buy one that is compatible with
> linux
> > because I'm not prepared to give up Ubuntu and go back to Windows.
> >
> > If you need any more information so that you can help me, please let me
> > know.
> >
>
> Some people/companies in the UK offer services to reflash mainboards.
> That might be what you want, but I'm not sure if the shipping cost is
> worth it.
> Besides that, some vendors might offer top hat flash solutions for your
> board, but I'm not 100% sure about this.
>
>
> > Again, guys, thanks a lot.
> >
> > Julio
> >
>
> Good luck!
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
>
>
> > On 20 May 2010 09:45, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
> > c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi Julio,
> >>
> >> please note that the method in the link can destroy your mainboard if
> >> your flash chip uses a different interface (very likely). See below for
> >> details.
> >>
> >> On 20.05.2010 09:37, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 20.05.2010 00:44, Joseph Smith wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 05/19/2010 06:38 PM, Michael Karcher wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> IIRC, we recently had a link showing two stacked flash chips (but I
> >>>>> think they were parallel, not LPC/FWH) with some control signals only
> >>>>> connected to the top one - the idea was to mount a working flash chip
> >>>>>
> >> on
> >>
> >>>>> top of the one with damaged/wrong contents without removing the lower
> >>>>> one from the system. Anyone knows what I'm talking about and still
> has
> >>>>> the link?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-April/020384.html
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> The back-to-back socket solution (sometimes also marketed as top hat
> >>> flash) would be the one which does not require soldering on the board
> >>> and thus has a lower risk.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> The best way to figure this out is to find out which flash chip you have
> >> and tell us. Then we can try to find out which pins need to be bent and
> >> disconnected.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Carl-Daniel
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://www.hailfinger.org/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> http://www.hailfinger.org/
>
>
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