Hi, On Thu, Jun 14, Corey Osgood wrote:
> Alright, looking just at the possible flashing issue for the moment, if > you flash the original bios (to your spare chip) does it work correctly? > And please remind me, what board and flash part are you using? Epia? > Also, what does flashrom do? I've a commell lv671 board with W39V040FA bios chip and Winbound w83627hf-aw super-io chip. If I burn the factory bios the page count increase from 0001 to 0007 and takes about 20 seconds/page: video:/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom# flashrom -w originalbios.img Calibrating delay loop... ok No LinuxBIOS table found. Found chipset "ICH4/ICH4-L": Enabling flash write... OK. W39V040FA found at physical address: 0xfff80000 Flash part is W39V040FA (512 KB) Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Programming Page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000 video:/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom# flashrom -v originalbios.img Calibrating delay loop... ok No LinuxBIOS table found. Found chipset "ICH4/ICH4-L": Enabling flash write... OK. W39V040FA found at physical address: 0xfff80000 Flash part is W39V040FA (512 KB) Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Verifying flash - FAILED the same with linuxbios, but the burning takes about 10 seconds for the whole burn: video:/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom# flashrom -w ../../targets/commell/lv671/lv671/linuxbios.rom Calibrating delay loop... ok No LinuxBIOS table found. Found chipset "ICH4/ICH4-L": Enabling flash write... OK. W39V040FA found at physical address: 0xfff80000 Flash part is W39V040FA (512 KB) Note: If the following flash access fails, you might need to specify -m <vendor>:<mainboard> Programming Page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000 video:/usr/src/neues_bios/LinuxBIOSv2/util/flashrom# flashrom -v ../../targets/commell/lv671/lv671/linuxbios.rom Calibrating delay loop... ok No LinuxBIOS table found. Found chipset "ICH4/ICH4-L": Enabling flash write... OK. W39V040FA found at physical address: 0xfff80000 Flash part is W39V040FA (512 KB) Note: If the following flash access fails, you might need to specify -m <vendor>:<mainboard> Verifying flash - FAILED -- Gruß Dieter -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the From field.
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