hi Josh, Thanks for your work on this. I'm on holiday at the moment for the next week but I'll get this tested as soon as I get back and update you on the outcome.
best regards, Joe On 9 September 2010 20:44, Joshua Roys <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/28/2010 06:36 PM, Joe Tym wrote: > > hi, > > > > thanks for your help in the irc channel with my hosed bios, > > > > my motherboard is an aopen i975xa-ydg, drivers are here: > > http://download.aopen.com.tw/Defaultaspx > > <http://download.aopen.com.tw/Default.aspx> ( no direct link i'm afraid > ) > > i've attached the bin which i was trying to install + txt files > > containing the output you requested, > > > > if you could get it working that would be fantastic > > > > thanks, > > > > Joe Tym > > > > Hello, > > I have an experimental board enable here for you to try... please get > the latest flashrom from SVN, apply the attached patch, compile and run: > ./flashrom -p internal:boardenable=force -Vw bios.bin > > Please let us know if that works or not and attach the output from the > above command in your reply. *NOTE*: There is a chance that the chip > will be only partially unlocked. Make a backup first (./flashrom -r > backup.bin), and if the erase step fails you will be able to verify if > the BIOS is OK or not (via ./flashrom -v backup.bin). If the chip ends > up in a bad state, join the IRC channel again :) > > Some technical notes of why this may only partially unlock the > protection are in the patch, but I will duplicate them here in case some > archive strips attachments completely: > > vendor BIOS ends up in LDN6... maybe the board enable is wrong, > or perhaps it's not needed at all? > the regs it tries to touch are 0xF0, 0xF1, 0xF2 which means if it > were in the right LDN, it would have to be GPIO1 or GPIO3 > > Good luck, > > Josh > >
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