[flashrom] Coreboot failure on GA-MA78GM-S2HP Rev. 2.0 motherboard

[QingPei Wang]

that may because of the dual bios method which used by gigabyte, since the
slave spi chip is still on
the board, the superio may(i guess)detect the CRC error for the main spi
bios is changed(coreboot now).

you can try to remove the slave spi flash chip.
no sure if it works


Best wishes
Wang Qing Pei
Phone: 86+018930528086


On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Donovan Lavinder <drmario2007 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I originally wanted EFI and other features that will allow me to use my
> motherboard for few years out. So, I downloaded archived coreboot firmware
> package, and I found one "baked" firmware ROM under folder MA78GM as the
> motherboards under this family seems to be having the same chipsets, so I
> went to burn my own coreboot in FreeDOS using flashrom. Now, it first
> exclaimed that it found MXIC MX25L8005 chipset, but it tried 4-bytes RDID
> and failed, however, I was able to erase the BIOS chip fine. Next, I wrote
> the firmware - after it said "done", it froze - I reset it, it kept
> reverting back to oh-so-annoying Award BIOS... No wonder my motherboard is
> SO picky!
>
> Here, I wrote up on the paper:
> flashrom Ver. 0.9.3 - r1205 (on Freedos boot CD - all I have had, no floppy
> disk and it won't boot from USB disk.... I may try spare hard drive if
> needed...)
> - 4-byte RDID refusal (although erasure was successful)
> Motherboard: Vendor - Gigabyte / Model - GA-MA78GM-S2HP
> CPU: AMD Phenom II X940 Black Series 3.0GHz quad-core (Deneb) CPU
> RAM: Crucial Ballistix DDR-II 800MHz 1GB x2 (2GB) on dual-channel memory
> bus
> Video card: Vendor - Gigabyte / Model - GV-R467ZL-1GI - FW Ver. - F12 / VPU
> - AMD Radeon HD 4670 with 1GB 800MHz GDDR3 on 128-bit bus
> * I removed my hard drive (with my personal documents and Windows XP)
> during the firmware flash to ensure the data aren't touched in a way.
>
> I would like to know how I can get my motherboard to quit being all so
> picky - otherwise any other methods known to work perfectly on the
> GA-MA78GM-S2HP motherboard any of you may have up and running the coreboot
> firmware.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
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