Hi folks,
(I'm deliberately breaking the thread otherwise most people will
probably miss this as the original thread is from Nov 2009)
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 04:08:10AM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:45:45PM -0800, Fraser Hanson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I flashed my bios with flashrom tonight and got the scary warning
> > message saying "erase failed" and "do not reboot".
> >
> > I haven't rebooted.
> >
> > As far as I can tell from using flashrom itself, everything is
> > actually fine. The erase appears to have failed at physical address 0,
> > which I would guess means that nothing actually happened.
> >
> > I had taken a dump of the original bios before starting, and "flashrom
> > -v" now verifies that it is identical.
> >
> > Furthermore, a new dump of the bios matches the original dump from
> > before I tried to write the bios.
> >
> > My board is an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum.
> >
> > Output from my dump attempt and subsequent messing around follows.
> >
> > Do I have your blessing to reboot my machine?
> >
> > --Fraser
>
> -> r816.
>
> Luc Verhaegen.
I'm browsing some old board reports on the mailing list and stumbled
upon this one here. What we have right now in svn trunk is this:
* Suited for:
* - MSI K8N Neo4: NVIDIA CK804
[...]
{0x10DE, 0x005E, 0x1462, 0x7125, 0x10DE, 0x0052, 0x1462, 0x7125, NULL,
NULL, NULL, "MSI", "K8N Neo4-F", 0,
OK, nvidia_mcp_gpio2_raise},
I.e., the comment talks about "MSI K8N Neo4" while the name in the
board-enable is "MSI K8N Neo4-F" (note the added -F). However, in
http://www.flashrom.org/pipermail/flashrom/2009-November/000889.html
the user reported that the board is a "K8N Neo4 Platinum (PCB 1.0)" from
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=165
On the MSI page, searching for "neo4" I can see:
K8N Neo4 Platinum (PCB 1.0)
K8N Neo4 Platinum (PCB 3.0)
K8N Neo4-F (PCB 1.0)
K8N Neo4-F (PCB 3.0)
K8N Neo4-FI (PCB 1.0)
K8N Neo4-FX (PCB 1.0)
So there are two Neo4-F versions (probably differing hardware) and two
Neo4-F versions (also potentially differing hardware). I cannot spot any
pure "Neo4" board without any suffix on the current website.
Fraser, could you please use the latest flashrom from svn and send us
the following info:
* flashrom -V
* lspci -nnvvvxxx
* superiotool -deV
Also, can you confirm that the board you have is indeed "K8N Neo4
Platinum (PCB 1.0)"? It's probably best to check what is actually
printed on the board itself, I wouldn't entirely trust dmidecode or
similar tools.
We should fix the board name in the code in one direction or the other.
It would also be nice to get a report of whether the current
board-enable for the mainboard works (this requires a write or erase
test), I think we never got a report, so we should probably mark the
board-enable as untested for now.
Thanks, Uwe.
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