On Saturday 31 December 2011 13:55:45 Idwer Vollering wrote: > 2011/12/31 Prakash Punnoor <[email protected]>: > > On 31.12.2011 11:39, Paul Menzel wrote: > >> Am Samstag, den 31.12.2011, 10:55 +0100 schrieb Prakash Punnoor:
> >>> flashrom v0.9.4-r1395 on Linux 3.2.0-rc7+ (x86_64), built with > >>> libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.5.2, little endian > >>> flashrom is free software, get the source code at > >>> http://www.flashrom.org > >>> > >>> Calibrating delay loop... OK. > >>> Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750/SB850". Enabling flash write... > >>> OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC, FWH, SPI. > >>> Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L8005" (1024 kB, SPI) at physical > >>> address 0xfff00000. > >>> No operations were specified. > >> > >> Unfortunately this question seems not be listed in the FAQ. Most of > >> the > >> time some areas differ because the MAC address and other configuration > >> data of the downloaded images differs [2]. I hope you mean the > >> downloaded image by factory/vendor image. > > > > To clarify: > > - Image I got from vendor web page: Flashed with flashrom won't work > > (machine doesn't POST). Flashed with awdflash works. > > Is the bootblock in the downloaded image intact/present? You can use > bios_extract: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~libv/bios_extract I don't know how to find that out. This is the output: Found Award BIOS. 0x30000 ( 75940 bytes) -> 8a660a1a.BIN (131072 bytes) 0x428A6 ( 37836 bytes) -> awardext.rom ( 53520 bytes) 0x4BC73 ( 13651 bytes) -> ACPITBL.BIN ( 30519 bytes) 0x4F1C7 ( 25463 bytes) -> awardeyt.rom ( 50864 bytes) 0x5553F ( 11719 bytes) -> _EN_CODE.BIN ( 26512 bytes) 0x58307 ( 3989 bytes) -> _ITEM.BIN ( 9600 bytes) 0x5929D ( 5657 bytes) -> _DMI.BIN ( 9456 bytes) 0x5A8B7 ( 3396 bytes) -> SPIFLASH.BIN ( 9184 bytes) 0x5B5FC ( 581 bytes) -> SMI32COD.BIN ( 736 bytes) 0x5B842 ( 1105 bytes) -> SMIAPCOD.BIN ( 34784 bytes) 0x5BC94 ( 38294 bytes) -> ROMs\VBIOS\13B27721.019 ( 60416 bytes) 0x6522B ( 33303 bytes) -> ROMs\SRAID_33.BIN ( 52224 bytes) 0x6D443 ( 9230 bytes) -> HFSROM.BIN ( 13824 bytes) 0x6F852 ( 34171 bytes) -> ROMs\8056.LOM ( 55808 bytes) 0x77DCE ( 75010 bytes) -> HFSXROM.DLL (135168 bytes) 0x8A2D1 ( 26405 bytes) -> AHCI.BIN ( 27648 bytes) 0x909F7 ( 11355 bytes) -> AGESACPU.ROM ( 34424 bytes) 0xA6E69 ( 5511 bytes) -> ROMs\AMD940.BMP (307980 bytes) The output from the dumped file looks the same, btw. > What happens when you reset the CMOS/ESCD data after flashing with > flashrom? awdflash does that with the /cp parameter, see > http://www.plasma-online.de/textual/howto/flash_award.html I will try that, if you can confirm that the image contains a boot block. > Do you have a POST card? You can get one off dealextreme.. > http://www.dealextreme.com/p/pc-motherboard-repair-troubleshoot-boot-failure > -diagnostic-pci-card-21997 Good idea. I ordered one (from a different place, as i live in Germany). Thanks, Prakash
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