[flashrom] HP XW9300 mainboard

[Federico Tomasi]

Hi Stefan,

thank you very much for your reply.
So I will see if to keep my motherboard as it is or to change it with a
different one.

Have an happy new year!
Cheers,

Federico
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2015-12-25 2:24 GMT+01:00 Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at>:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:55:06 +0000
> Federico Tomasi <federico.tomasi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I already tried some time ago to flash my hp xw9300 mainboard bios but
> with
> > no luck. Then I realized that I was using Ubuntu on a VirtualBox so it
> > maybe could not access the mainborad chip...
> >
> > I retried in these days using an Ubuntu  live-cd, and I also read this
> old
> > forum thread
> >
> >
> http://forums.bit-tech.net/showpost.php?s=c0347634d93e911f8254f28ec1a83fc1&p=2176448&postcount=6
> >
> >  where a guy tells to have succesfully written a Tyan original bios on
> the
> > HP branded version of the same mainboard (the Tyan K8WE S2895) that is
> the
> > HP XW9300 mainboard.
> > (I didn't connect pins as he edit it wasn't necessary to do that but to
> > enable the jumper of boot block)
> >
>
> Hi Federico,
>
> it seems like different versions of the firmware engage different write
> protection mechanisms and your version requires either a small piece of
> code in flashrom to disable the write protection or the ugly hack of
> connection the respective pins to VDD. The problem is that deriving the
> right commands for the board is not straight forward and no one
> bothered to find them yet (it requires reverse engineering the firmware
> files).
>
> --
> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
>
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