On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:57:57 +0100 "Peter A. Braun" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Stefan, > > thank you very much for your kind reply. Wow. I really appreciate the level > of detail. I were glad flashrom-community would evaluate my humble report as > useful. Thank you very much. > > Now coming back to your points: > - Next mails will not come in HTML but plain text. I hope changes in my mail > setup/initialization file work well. Otherwise I need a hint to correct mail > systems' features. > - Your assumptions concerning the meaning of "works fine" and the > interpretation of update information are correct. > - Following your proposal to reset the CMOS chip I used a jumper on my MB as > stated in the MSI manual. Analyzing the BIOS afterwards I found most of > parameters were reset to default, but e.g. internal BIOS time hadn't been > affected. What does your experience recommend? Do you think this behavior is > correct or should I remove the battery additionally? sounds normal, and removing the battery would most probably reset the real time clock too. if there is other data retained by the battery... i dont know. trying if it help/change anything, wont hurt, even if i doubt it. > - Using MSI tools to flash BIOS is not a good idea, because e.g. MSIHQ set > off virus alarms (12 of 40 findings by virustotal.com analyzing the unpacked > MSIHQ tool). might still be a false positive... i deem AV products to be snake oil. maybe the bios can update itself from USB? f9 at startup on my intel/ami bios. > - Going back to the old version is not such a good idea. You need to know > -sorry for not mentioning it earlier- I had some trouble with the USB 3.0 > ports. Removing or adding HD hot plugged led sometimes to blue screens (W7). > That's what I want to improve by using a newer BIOS. your choice what is more important to you... > - I had not generated a backup copy of the old BIOS, as I have a second board > of same type and age in place. I will use its BIOS if I decide to go back to > the old version with the other board. Otherwise I will back up the BIOS of > this test board by a different SW. By the way, does flashrom support backing > up the BIOS? flashrom -r <backupfilename> reads out the flash content and stores it in a file which can later be written back. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
