[flashrom] Unsuccessful flashing MB 775twins

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hello Nikolay,

we will help you.

On 02.09.2010 12:54, Nikolay Kasatkin wrote:
> I have unsuccessful flashed motherboard ASRock 775twins-HDTV
> (http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?model=775twins-hdtv).
>
> Here the system information and flashrom log:
>
> lspci -nn:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200
> Host Bridge [1002:5a33] (rev 01)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
> [1002:5a3f]
> 00:19.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge
> [10b9:5249]
> 00:1c.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller
> [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
> 00:1c.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller
> [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
> 00:1c.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller
> [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
> 00:1c.3 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller
> [10b9:5239] (rev 01)
> 00:1e.0 ISA bridge [0601]: ALi Corporation PCI to LPC Controller
> [10b9:1573] (rev 31)
> 00:1e.1 Bridge [0680]: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management
> Controller [PMU] [10b9:7101]
> 00:1f.0 IDE interface [0101]: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE [10b9:5229]
> (rev c7)
> 00:1f.1 SATA controller [0106]: ALi Corporation ULi 5287 SATA
> [10b9:5287] (rev 02)

This is a very odd system. We have to check the available BIOS update
for a mainboard enable and/or a chipset enable. BIOS download is here:
http://europe.asrock.com/downloadsite/bios/775/775Twins-HDTV(2.10).zip

> dmidecode:
> http://pastebin.com/8w1JWeJW
>
> flashrom -rV bios.bak:
> http://pastebin.com/dKcbvC3p
>
> flashrom -wV newbios.rom:
> http://pastebin.com/qeqmsyGY

I have attached the logs to this mail to make sure they are not lost if
pastebin deletes/moves them.


> I have spare machine with the same hardware for emergency BIOS
> restore, but if there any chance to rescue machine with software it
> would be good.

If you created bios.bak before the first write operation, you can use a
simple check to see if anything changed:

flashrom -Vv bios.bak
If that command prints no errors, the flash chip is unchanged.
If it prints some errors, it means we have to recover in software.

It looks like your write log was cut off (no error message visible). Do
you still have the error messages?

It would be a good idea to test latest flashrom from svn which may work
on your board.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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