[flashrom] Big problem after flash of SST SST25VF016B on HP Compaq 615

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 09.01.2010 23:04, Parallix wrote:
> Mystery things do not stop. Now I succeeded when flashing the original
> BIOS with the patched version as one can see by flashrom's output:
>   

Ha!

> flashrom v0.9.1-r845 (patched)
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "SST SST25VF016B" (2048 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xffe00000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... Erasing flash before programming... done.
> COMPLETE.
> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
>
> A verification by reading the BIOS (via flashrom -r <file>) and comparing it with
> the original bios (via diff) shows the NO difference.
>   

Great.


> For now I think we can say good night.

Good night indeed.


> But I would be very pleased if we fix
> the problem tomorrow. The original job to flash a new bios isn't done up to
> now ...
>   

It will take our board enable specialists a while to create a board
enable for you, so don't expect anything tomorrow. If you know where to
find a service manual for your laptop or if you have any high-resolution
photos of your mainboard, creating that board enable will be easier for
us. We need to find out which SuperIO or EC (Embedded Controller) your
board is using. superiotool unfortunately didn't find anything.

In general, we recommend people to use the vendor flashing tools on
laptops because the risk is much higher than on desktops where you can
recover quite easily.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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