[flashrom] Flashing Jetway J7F4K9G2 bios

[Edwin Wijburg]

Yesterday I contacted you via IRC because of a possible flash failure on my 
Jetway J7F4K9G2 motherboard. Luckily the error was not severe as a --verify 
confirmed an intact bios (thanks again for the online help!).
I used an old flashrom version from the Debian squeeze repositories and was 
advised to upgrade to at least the version in testing.
I compiled from source.

What I am trying (off course) is to ascertain if my bios can be flashed 
with flashrom. I do have the latest bios for this board but it was 
cumbersome to make a flash usb stick with freedos, fiddle with the bios 
settings to get my board to boot the stick, well, you know ....... (why 
else flashrom?)

Your wiki-list shows one Jetway family member that works with flashrom (the 
J7F4K1G5D-PB). I'd like to be able to tell you mine works with it as well 
(so it can be added to the list).

Now, when I probe the motherboard flashrom tells me that it has two 
flashchips (the old flashrom didn't do that). Which one is the one to use? 
I've included the flashrom's output for the probe and read actions on the 
respective chips.
The motherboard has in fact two NIC biosses as well. But I didn't compile 
with external programmers so I imagine the probe then should not find those?

In the wiki you clearly state that testing an erase and write should only 
be done when I have an alternative bios chip at hand. And I don't. Should I 
stop the experimenting alltogether or are there other ways to find out if 
chances are good that my board will be flashable?


Edwin.
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