[flashrom] Successfull flash on Asus P4B533

[Stefan Bauer]

I recently successfully flashed my Asus P4B533's BIOS. It was detected as P4B533-E (notice the "-E"), but enabling the motherboard specific code for that worked. Below you find the output.

Kind regards and thank you for this neat tool,
Stefan


vdr ~ # flashrom
flashrom v0.9.2-r1001 on Linux 2.6.35-gentoo-r12 (i686), built with libpci 3.1.4, GCC 4.4.4
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH4/ICH4-L", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
WARNING: Your mainboard is ASUS P4B533-E, but the mainboard-specific
code has not been tested, and thus will not not be executed by default.
Depending on your hardware environment, erasing, writing or even probing
can fail without running the board specific code.

Please see the man page (section PROGRAMMER SPECIFIC INFO, subsection
"internal programmer") for details.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
No operations were specified.
vdr ~ # flashrom -p internal:boardenable=force -w 1015.awd 
flashrom v0.9.2-r1001 on Linux 2.6.35-gentoo-r12 (i686), built with libpci 3.1.4, GCC 4.4.4
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH4/ICH4-L", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
NOTE: Running an untested board enable procedure.
Please report success/failure to flashrom at flashrom.org.
Disabling flash write protection for board "ASUS P4B533-E"... OK.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... SUCCESS.
Programming page: DONE!ss: 0x0007f000
COMPLETE.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.          
vdr ~ # flashrom -v 1015.awd 
flashrom v0.9.2-r1001 on Linux 2.6.35-gentoo-r12 (i686), built with libpci 3.1.4, GCC 4.4.4
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH4/ICH4-L", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
WARNING: Your mainboard is ASUS P4B533-E, but the mainboard-specific
code has not been tested, and thus will not not be executed by default.
Depending on your hardware environment, erasing, writing or even probing
can fail without running the board specific code.

Please see the man page (section PROGRAMMER SPECIFIC INFO, subsection
"internal programmer") for details.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
vdr ~ # dmidecode 
# dmidecode 2.10
SMBIOS 2.3 present.
49 structures occupying 1356 bytes.
Table at 0x000F0040.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes
BIOS Information
        Vendor: Award Software, Inc.
        Version: ASUS P4B533 ACPI BIOS Revision 1015
        Release Date: 04/29/2003
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 512 kB
        Characteristics:
                PCI is supported
                PNP is supported
                APM is supported
                BIOS is upgradeable
                BIOS shadowing is allowed
                ESCD support is available
                Boot from CD is supported
                Selectable boot is supported
                BIOS ROM is socketed
                EDD is supported
                5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
                8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
                Serial services are supported (int 14h)
                Printer services are supported (int 17h)
                CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
                ACPI is supported
                USB legacy is supported
                AGP is supported

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: System Manufacturer
        Product Name: System Name
        Version: System Version
        Serial Number: SYS-1234567890
        UUID: Not Settable
        Wake-up Type: Power Switch

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
        Product Name: P4B533
        Version: REV 1.xx
        Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxx

…more DMI information on request
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