<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:8px"><div style="" class="">I was able to flash the MSI H81M-U33 with flashrom. The built-in M-Flash wasnt working. Flashed from 6.0 to 6.6.<br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 8px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">BIOS Information<br style="" class=""> Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.<br style="" class=""> Version: V6.6<br style="" class=""> Release Date: 07/22/2014<br style="" class=""> Address: 0xF0000<br style="" class=""> Runtime Size: 64
kB<br style="" class=""> ROM Size: 8192 kB<br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 8px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 8px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">Base Board Information<br style="" class=""> Manufacturer: MSI<br style="" class=""> Product Name: H81M-E33 (MS-7817)<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Linux Zaphod 3.13.0-38-generic #65-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 9 11:36:50 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 8px; font-family: Courier
New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 8px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">processor : 0<br style="" class="">vendor_id : GenuineIntel<br style="" class="">cpu family : 6<br style="" class="">model : 60<br style="" class="">model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3220 @ 3.00GHz<br style="" class="">stepping : 3<br style="" class="">microcode : 0x1a<br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 8px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;">root@Zaphod:~# flashrom -V -p internal -r BIOS.good<br style="" class="">flashrom v0.9.6.1-r1563 on Linux 3.13.0-38-generic (x86_64)<br style="" class="">flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">flashrom was built with libpci 3.1.9, GCC 4.7.1, little endian<br style="" class="">Command line (5 args): flashrom -V -p internal -r BIOS.good<br style="" class="">Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 2998M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 107 us, 1000 myus = 999 us, 10000 myus = 9997 us, 4 myus = 4 us, OK.<br style="" class="">Initializing internal programmer<br style="" class="">No coreboot table found.<br style="" class="">DMI string system-manufacturer: "MSI"<br style="" class="">DMI string system-product-name: "MS-7817"<br style="" class="">DMI string system-version: "1.0"<br style="" class="">DMI string
baseboard-manufacturer: "MSI"<br style="" class="">DMI string baseboard-product-name: "H81M-E33 (MS-7817)"<br style="" class="">DMI string baseboard-version: "1.0"<br style="" class="">DMI string chassis-type: "Desktop"<br style="" class="">Found chipset "Intel Lynx Point" with PCI ID 8086:8c5c. <br style="" class="">This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version<br style="" class="">of flashrom *and* were (not) able to successfully update your firmware with it,<br style="" class="">then please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org including a verbose (-V) log.<br style="" class="">Thank you!<br style="" class="">Enabling flash write... enable_flash_ich_dc_spi: unknown ICH generation. Please report!<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">0xfff80000/0xffb80000 FWH IDSEL: 0x0<br style="" class="">0xfff00000/0xffb00000 FWH IDSEL: 0x0<br style="" class="">0xffe80000/0xffa80000 FWH IDSEL: 0x1<br style=""
class="">0xffe00000/0xffa00000 FWH IDSEL: 0x1<br style="" class="">0xffd80000/0xff980000 FWH IDSEL: 0x2<br style="" class="">0xffd00000/0xff900000 FWH IDSEL: 0x2<br style="" class="">0xffc80000/0xff880000 FWH IDSEL: 0x3<br style="" class="">0xffc00000/0xff800000 FWH IDSEL: 0x3<br style="" class="">0xff700000/0xff300000 FWH IDSEL: 0x4<br style="" class="">0xff600000/0xff200000 FWH IDSEL: 0x5<br style="" class="">0xff500000/0xff100000 FWH IDSEL: 0x6<br style="" class="">0xff400000/0xff000000 FWH IDSEL: 0x7<br style="" class="">0xfff80000/0xffb80000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">0xfff00000/0xffb00000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">0xffe80000/0xffa80000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">0xffe00000/0xffa00000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">0xffd80000/0xff980000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">0xffd00000/0xff900000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">0xffc80000/0xff880000 FWH decode enabled<br style=""
class="">0xffc00000/0xff800000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">0xff700000/0xff300000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">0xff600000/0xff200000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">0xff500000/0xff100000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">0xff400000/0xff000000 FWH decode enabled<br style="" class="">Maximum FWH chip size: 0x100000 bytes<br style="" class="">BIOS Lock Enable: disabled, BIOS Write Enable: disabled, BIOS_CNTL is 0x8<br style="" class="">Root Complex Register Block address = 0xfed1c000<br style="" class="">GCS = 0xc61: BIOS Interface Lock-Down: enabled, Boot BIOS Straps: 0x3 (unknown)<br style="" class="">Top Swap : not enabled<br style="" class="">SPIBAR = 0xfed1c000 + 0x3800<br style="" class="">0x04: 0xf008 (HSFS)<br style="" class="">HSFS: FDONE=0, FCERR=0, AEL=0, BERASE=1, SCIP=0, FDOPSS=1, FDV=1, FLOCKDN=1<br style="" class="">WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated.<br style="" class="">Reading OPCODES...
done<br style="" class="">0x06: 0x3f00 (HSFC)<br style="" class="">HSFC: FGO=0, FCYCLE=0, FDBC=63, SME=0<br style="" class="">0x08: 0x007fffc0 (FADDR)<br style="" class="">0x50: 0x0000ffff (FRAP)<br style="" class="">BMWAG 0x00, BMRAG 0x00, BRWA 0xff, BRRA 0xff<br style="" class="">0x54: 0x00000000 FREG0: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-write.<br style="" class="">0x58: 0x07ff0200 FREG1: BIOS region (0x00200000-0x007fffff) is read-write.<br style="" class="">0x5C: 0x01ff0001 FREG2: Management Engine region (0x00001000-0x001fffff) is read-write.<br style="" class="">0x90: 0xc0 (SSFS)<br style="" class="">SSFS: SCIP=0, FDONE=0, FCERR=0, AEL=0<br style="" class="">0x91: 0xfc4010 (SSFC)<br style="" class="">SSFC: SCGO=0, ACS=0, SPOP=0, COP=1, DBC=0, SME=0, SCF=4<br style="" class="">0x94: 0x0006 (PREOP)<br style="" class="">0x96: 0x043b (OPTYPE)<br style="" class="">0x98: 0x05203b02
(OPMENU)<br style="" class="">0x9C: 0x0000019f (OPMENU+4)<br style="" class="">0xA0: 0x00000000 (BBAR)<br style="" class="">0xC4: 0x80802045 (LVSCC)<br style="" class="">LVSCC: BES=0x1, WG=1, WSR=0, WEWS=0, EO=0x20, VCL=1<br style="" class="">0xC8: 0x00002045 (UVSCC)<br style="" class="">UVSCC: BES=0x1, WG=1, WSR=0, WEWS=0, EO=0x20, VCL=0<br style="" class="">0xD0: 0x50444653 (FPB)<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Enabling hardware sequencing because some important opcode is locked.<br style="" class="">SPI Read Configuration: prefetching enabled, caching enabled, OK.<br style="" class="">The following protocols are supported: FWH, Programmer-specific.<br style="" class="">Probing for Programmer Opaque flash chip, 0 kB: Found 1 attached SPI flash chip with a density of 8192 kB.<br style="" class="">The flash address space (0x000000 - 0x1acfff) is divided at address 0x653000 in two partitions.<br style="" class="">The first partition ranges
from 0x000000 to 0x652fff.<br style="" class="">In that range are 1619 erase blocks with 4096 B each.<br style="" class="">The second partition ranges from 0x653000 to 0x1acfff.<br style="" class="">In that range are 429 erase blocks with 4096 B each.<br style="" class="">Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (8192 kB, Programmer-specific) at physical address 0x0.<br style="" class="">Probing for Atmel AT49LH002, 256 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xfc, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for Intel 82802AB, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for Intel 82802AC, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for PMC Pm49FL002, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common:
id1 0xff, id2 0xfc, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for PMC Pm49FL004, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for Sharp LHF00L04, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for SST SST49LF002A/B, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xfc, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for SST SST49LF003A/B, 384 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0x02, id2 0x00, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for SST SST49LF004A/B, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br
style="" class="">Probing for SST SST49LF004C, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for SST SST49LF008A, 1024 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for SST SST49LF008C, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for SST SST49LF016C, 2048 kB: Chip size 2048 kB is bigger than supported size 1024 kB of chipset/board/programmer for FWH interface, probe/read/erase/write may fail. probe_82802ab: id1 0xb4, id2 0x73, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for ST M50FLW040A, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash
content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for ST M50FLW040B, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for ST M50FLW080A, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for ST M50FLW080B, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for ST M50FW002, 256 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xfc, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for ST M50FW016, 2048 kB: Chip size 2048 kB is bigger than supported size 1024 kB of chipset/board/programmer for FWH interface, probe/read/erase/write may fail. probe_82802ab: id1 0xb4, id2 0x73, id1 parity violation,
id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for ST M50FW040, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for ST M50FW080, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for Winbond W39V040FA, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for Winbond W39V040FB, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for Winbond W39V040FC, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for
Winbond W49V002FA, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xfc, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for Winbond W39V080FA, 1024 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Probing for Winbond W39V080FA (dual mode), 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0x88, id2 0x6f, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content<br style="" class="">Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (8192 kB, Programmer-specific).<br style="" class="">Reading flash... Reading 8388608 bytes starting at 0x000000.<br style="" class="">done.<br style="" class="">Restoring MMIO space at 0x7f74dc5858a0<br style="" class="">Restoring PCI config space for 00:1f:0 reg 0xdc<br style="" class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 8px; font-family: Courier
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