Hi! I tried the same thing. I was able to write the Tyan BIOS (with the 'dd' trick). However, sincen aparently the boot block is write protected, I get some system write errors on boot, and it takes an awful long time to boot. But at least it boots... I tried flashing the old xw9400 BIOS back with no luck. This is the error I get: http://flashrom.pastebin.com/KNNiTJ0x
It also sees that I get some problems with the SATA-controllers, but that might be related to the BIOS not functioning properly I guess. Nils-Helge Garli Hegvik On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Nicolas AVELINE <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi ! > > i tryed to flash a tyan bios but he was 2kB longer from the bios that i read > with flashrom. > > I use dd to make it fit in 1MB. > > But now i can't flash because there is a write protection. > > On a forum i have seen that you should link pin 7 and 32 of the rom chip. > > this disable write protection. > > So flashrom was able to write, but did stop at 0xF000. > > Now my motherboard dont boot anymore. > > I'am buying a chip + a plcc32 socket on ebay. > > I will try again when i receive the chip, because it is very interessant ! > > Read of bios work very well, write not because of the write protection. > > more read here => http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?p=2319331 > > Nicolas Aveline > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Tyan S2915 OEM / HP xw9400 now supported > Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 03:50:27 +0200 > > Hi > > this works fine ! > > > flashrom v0.9.2-r1023 on Linux 2.6.32-22-generic (x86_64), built with libpci > 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.3, little endian > flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org > > Calibrating delay loop... OK. > No coreboot table found. > Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK. > This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI. > Found chip "SST SST49LF080A" (1024 KB, LPC) at physical address 0xfff00000. > No operations were specified. > > >> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 10:05:30 +0200 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; >> [email protected] >> Subject: Tyan S2915 OEM / HP xw9400 now supported >> >> Hi, >> >> flashrom should work fine since version 0.9.2 revision 1008 on all Tyan >> S2915 OEM boards. >> The reason for the failing access was that those boards have two MCP55 >> LPC bridges. flashrom enabled the first LPC bridge (oddball PCI class) >> instead of the second one (ISA bridge PCI class). Since we don't have >> any reports of PCI ID 10de:0361 being used as "real" primary LPC bridge, >> we blacklisted that ID for now until class checking is in place (which >> may break on other boards with buggy BIOS, not sure). The "real" LPC >> bridge on this board has the PCI ID >> >> I'd appreciate full output of >> flashrom -V >> with latest flashrom (at least 0.9.2-r1008). >> >> Thanks to everyone who tested and provided lspci output. >> >> Regards, >> Carl-Daniel >> >> -- >> http://www.hailfinger.org/ >> > > ________________________________ > Votre vie privée l'est-elle vraiment ? Internet Explorer 8 vous protège > gratuitement ! > ________________________________ > De nouvelles Emoticones sur Messenger ? Téléchargez les Emoticones pâte à > modeler ! _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
