[flashrom] oops ! - everything went fine, until...

Jules Gosnell jules_gosnell at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 20 02:31:24 CET 2011


On 02/20/2011 12:55 AM, Idwer Vollering wrote:
> 2011/2/20 Jules Gosnell<jules_gosnell at yahoo.com>:
>> late night session...
>>
>> feeling a little cavalier with some old hardware...
>>
>> ran 'flashrom' - seemed to be happy...
>>
>> made a backup of my existing bios - still happy...
>>
>> wrote my new bios - flashrom reported job done no problems...still happy...
>>
>> I reboot, kicking myself for hours of messing around with various versions
>> of windows trying and failing to update my bios that way...
>>
>> suddenly - box NOT happy :-(
>>
>> three short beeps, pause, three short beeps...
>>
>> I power down, power up  - three short beeps repeating - argh !!!
>
> Tyan's support page 'demands' that you reset the CMOS after flashing,
> here's how you do that:
> http://www.tyan.com/archive/support/html/clear_cmos.html

Thanks - I did this and my box came up again !

What's more, it now recognises my 2TB sata drive :-)

Panic over - I should have RTFM-ed ...

Thanks for all your help - and for flashrom - it performed perfectly - I 
just wish I could say the same for myself.

Calling it a night now.


Jules

>
> Three beeps indicate memory problems, see chapter 8:
> http://www.ami.com/support/doc/AMIBIOS8_Checkpoint_and_Beep_Code_List_PUB.pdf
>
> If the CMOS reset doesn't work, hopefully a bootblock recovery will
> help you out (chapter 3):
> http://www.ami.com/support/doc/AMIBIOS8_Flash_Recovery_Whitepaper_v10.pdf
>
>>
>> M/B is/was? a Tyan Thunder, with a pair of old opterons on it.
>>
>> New bios version, carefully hunted down online was - 2885V208.rom.
>>
>> flashrom worked flawlessly, so no doubt this is pilot error - most likely I
>> have installed the wrong image.
>
> Latest version is V2.07: http://www.tyan.com/archive/support/html/b_s2885.html
>
>>
>> Do I chuck the m/b and  get another on eBay, or is it salvageable ?
>> I think I saw someone online selling BIOS chips
>
> This wiki page is what you are looking for, it lists some companies
> that offer replacement chips:
> http://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#Where_can_I_buy_BIOS_chips_.28empty_or_pre-flashed.29.3F
>
>   - maybe, if I knew which chip it
>> was, I could unplug mine and plug a new one in - if it's not all soldered
>> down...
> (Reference) image of the board:
> http://www.tyan.com/archive/support/assets/images/s2885_revID.jpg
>
>>
>> I'm afraid I don't know much about BIOSes. They are not something I play
>> with every day. I was just trying to persuade my old box to see a new 2TB
>> SATA drive so it could retire into my loft to run mythtvbackend...
>>
>> any help appreciated,
>>
>> regards.
>>
>>
>> Jules
>>
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