Same problem with 5cm long copper wires. Here is a video of what's happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlbRGK9_gPg
Nyúlós Lónyál <udpsendtofai...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. 16., Sze, 1:38): > The wires are ~20-25cm made of aluminium, but I have some broken USB > cables with copper wires. I can reduce the distance of laptop's keyboard > connector and DIP8 socket to about 5cm wire length, will give it a try > tomorrow. And something that I've noticed at verifying with flashrom, it > always gives a random hex number after "failed byte count from > 0x00000000-0x0001ffff". Maybe the "Timed out waiting for SPI not busy!" > error is caused by the wires too. Thanks for the idea, I will reply back > with results. > > Mike Banon <mikeb...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. 16., Sze, > 1:09): > >> Sorry if I've already asked this question, but how long are your >> wires? Ideally they should be about 10cm length and made of good >> copper. Although it could work even for 30cm poor aluminum wires, >> still when there are read/write errors - the first suggestion which >> comes to my mind is to shorten the wires. I understand that it could >> be difficult to use short wires at your flashing setup, but hope it is >> possible for you to try. And also I hope that you've ordered CH341A >> just in case our suggestions wouldn't work. >> > The laptop can't boot, doesn't even react to power button or recovery >> key combination, and no charging LED lighting up >> Everything from this list is expected if there is a corrupted KB9012 >> firmware, because it is KB9012 which listens for your power button >> keypresses / controls the LEDs / etc >> >> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 2:44 PM Nyúlós Lónyál <udpsendtofai...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Sorry for the confusion. :( I think you have misunderstood me. >> > >> > My laptop's motherboard is taken out of the laptop. I have another >> machine, a desktop PC which I've used for trying rayer_spi programmer. Now >> I connect the laptop's KB9012's debug pins into the desktop PC >> motherboard's DIP8 BIOS socket with wires, after it booted the linux >> distribution with flashrom installed and removing it's original BIOS SPI >> chip. The two machine's GND, DIP8 socket's GND, and KB9012's pin 42 are >> united. >> > >> > Like when recovering a regular motherboard BIOS with hot-swapping >> chips, just the only difference I connect the laptop's KBC instead of >> another BIOS chip: https://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#Developers >> > >> > I think the desktop motherboard's BIOS socket can be used as an SPI >> programmer this way, originally it has W25Q80BVAIG DIP8 chip which can be >> removed. That gave me these results, read and write errors which I sent >> before, but at least it can detect KB9012. I've tested with the original >> BIOS chip, flashrom can read, erase, and write it. The motherboard is an >> Asrock G41C-GS first generation, rev 1.0.2. >> > >> > The laptop can't boot, doesn't even react to power button or recovery >> key combination, and no charging LED lighting up, since it got bricked with >> a wrong BIOS update, this is why I want to reflash KB9012 with an external >> tool, like the desktop PC motherboard's DIP8 socket. >> > >> > Mike Banon <mikeb...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. 14., H, >> 22:43): >> >> >> >> That is because KB9012 is active after your laptop has booted and not >> >> in debug state where it is possible to reflash it without a problem. >> >> >> >> Have you double checked your laptop's datasheet to make sure your >> >> connection is correct, and also that your laptop's corner ground is >> >> really connected to its' ground? (what if not all its' copper circles >> >> are the grounds in your case) >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:01 PM Nyúlós Lónyál < >> udpsendtofai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Sorry for double mail. Erasing and writing fails too. >> >> > >> >> > xubuntu@xubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom -p internal -c "KB9012 >> (EDI)" -w /home/xubuntu/Desktop/EC-FD-Extract.bin >> >> > flashrom p1.0-141-g9cecc7e on Linux 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64) >> >> > flashrom is free software, get the source code at >> https://flashrom.org >> >> > >> >> > Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). >> >> > Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R". >> >> > Enabling flash write... OK. >> >> > edi_read: Retrying read with greater buffer length! >> >> > edi_read: Retrying read with greater buffer length! >> >> > Found ENE flash chip "KB9012 (EDI)" (128 kB, SPI) mapped at physical >> address 0x00000000fffe0000. >> >> > Reading old flash chip contents... done. >> >> > Erasing and writing flash chip... edi_chip_block_erase: Timed out >> waiting for SPI not busy! >> >> > Reading current flash chip contents... done. Looking for another >> erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > No usable erase functions left. >> >> > FAILED! >> >> > Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything has changed. >> >> > Reading current flash chip contents... done. >> >> > Apparently at least some data has changed. >> >> > Your flash chip is in an unknown state. >> >> > Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or >> >> > mail flashrom@flashrom.org with the subject "FAILED: <your board >> name>"! >> >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF! >> >> > >> >> > xubuntu@xubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom -p internal -c "KB9012 >> (EDI)" -E >> >> > flashrom p1.0-141-g9cecc7e on Linux 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64) >> >> > flashrom is free software, get the source code at >> https://flashrom.org >> >> > >> >> > Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). >> >> > Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R". >> >> > Enabling flash write... OK. >> >> > edi_read: Retrying read with greater buffer length! >> >> > edi_read: Retrying read with greater buffer length! >> >> > Found ENE flash chip "KB9012 (EDI)" (128 kB, SPI) mapped at physical >> address 0x00000000fffe0000. >> >> > Erasing and writing flash chip... edi_chip_block_erase: Timed out >> waiting for SPI not busy! >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > Looking for another erase function. >> >> > No usable erase functions left. >> >> > FAILED! >> >> > Your flash chip is in an unknown state. >> >> > Get help on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or >> >> > mail flashrom@flashrom.org with the subject "FAILED: <your board >> name>"! >> >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF! >> >> > >> >> > Nyúlós Lónyál <udpsendtofai...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. >> jan. 11., P, 13:49): >> >> >> >> >> >> Finally managed it to detect KBC's internal flash using the >> motherboard's BIOS socket with removing it's SPI chip after boot, and >> connecting KB9012 in there. But the read always gives me different files, >> so I can't backup the current content of KB9012. >> >> >> >> >> >> xubuntu@xubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom -p internal -c "KB9012 >> (EDI)" -r /home/xubuntu/Desktop/ene1.bin >> >> >> flashrom p1.0-141-g9cecc7e on Linux 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64) >> >> >> flashrom is free software, get the source code at >> https://flashrom.org >> >> >> >> >> >> Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). >> >> >> Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R". >> >> >> Enabling flash write... OK. >> >> >> edi_read: Retrying read with greater buffer length! >> >> >> edi_read: Retrying read with greater buffer length! >> >> >> Found ENE flash chip "KB9012 (EDI)" (128 kB, SPI) mapped at >> physical address 0x00000000fffe0000. >> >> >> Reading flash... done. >> >> >> xubuntu@xubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom -p internal -c "KB9012 >> (EDI)" -v /home/xubuntu/Desktop/ene1.bin >> >> >> flashrom p1.0-141-g9cecc7e on Linux 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64) >> >> >> flashrom is free software, get the source code at >> https://flashrom.org >> >> >> >> >> >> Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). >> >> >> Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R". >> >> >> Enabling flash write... OK. >> >> >> edi_read: Retrying read with greater buffer length! >> >> >> edi_read: Retrying read with greater buffer length! >> >> >> Found ENE flash chip "KB9012 (EDI)" (128 kB, SPI) mapped at >> physical address 0x00000000fffe0000. >> >> >> Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x000034c2! Expected=0xff, Found=0x78, >> failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0001ffff: 0x6c52 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Nyúlós Lónyál <udpsendtofai...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. >> jan. 10., Cs, 12:14): >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Yea, tried to discharge the motherboard, taken out CMOS battery >> too, it didn't help. I don't know if this is programmer related or not, I >> have reflashed 2 types of BIOS SPI chips with it, EN25QH16 and W25Q32BV. >> But these chips are maybe different from KB9012's debug interface. I can't >> get a CH341A for now, maybe some months later. It would be good to recover >> the laptop if it's possible with the tools I have currently, but not very >> urgent. Here is the programmer's config, if it helps: >> https://github.com/flashrom/flashrom/blob/master/rayer_spi.c >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Mike Banon <mikeb...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. 9., >> Sze, 18:59): >> >> >>>> >> >> >>>> Just to double-check: please discharge the motherboard completely >> by >> >> >>>> trying to turn it on while there is no power adapter connected, >> then >> >> >>>> unite three grounds (KB9012 / programmer / motherboard ) and only >> then >> >> >>>> connect the board's power adapter . After doing all that, please >> check >> >> >>>> if you could read it now. Also, what if your issues are programmer >> >> >>>> related? Is it possible for you to try another programmer, like >> CH341A >> >> >>>> ? (because it costs like $2-$3 with free shipping from china, just >> >> >>>> prefer to get a green PCB version because there were some 3.3/5V >> >> >>>> issues with some black PCB CH341A , and blue PCB version costs the >> >> >>>> same low price while having fewer pins) Or maybe you could get it >> >> >>>> locally for a (hopefully) small premium if you're in hurry >> >> >>>> >> >> >>>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:20 PM Nyúlós Lónyál < >> udpsendtofai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>>> > >> >> >>>> > Hi Mike! >> >> >>>> > >> >> >>>> > I've followed the linked guide, it gave me these results. The >> grounds are united, still the same error happens. I have tried to GND pin >> 42 of KB9012 as mentioned in the guide, and tried to connect both pin 41 >> and 42 to GND, as in KBC's datasheet at EDI related part, still no success, >> flashrom doesn't detect it. >> >> >>>> > >> >> >>>> > Mike Banon <mikeb...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. >> 8., K, 16:08): >> >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> Hi Nyulos, >> >> >>>> >> Have you tried following the KB9012 flashing instructions at >> >> >>>> >> DangerousPrototypes wiki? >> >> >>>> >> >> http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Flashing_KB9012_with_Bus_Pirate >> >> >>>> >> Although that is for Bus Pirate / CH341A programmers and >> LA-A091P, >> >> >>>> >> should be similar for your Rayer programmer and LA-8241P >> motherboard. >> >> >>>> >> Most importantly, before plugging the power adapter you should >> unite >> >> >>>> >> three grounds: >> >> >>>> >> 1) GND of laptop's motherboard >> >> >>>> >> 2) GND of your programmer >> >> >>>> >> 3) GND of KB9012 >> >> >>>> >> Best regards, >> >> >>>> >> Mike Banon >> >> >>>> >> >> >> >>>> >> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:30 PM Nyúlós Lónyál < >> udpsendtofai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>>> >> > >> >> >>>> >> > Hi! >> >> >>>> >> > >> >> >>>> >> > I'm trying to flash an ENE KB9012QF A3 KBC on LA-8241P >> motherboard. The problem is flashrom can't detect the internal SPI of it, >> fails with error. >> >> >>>> >> > >> >> >>>> >> > flashrom p1.0-141-g9cecc7e on Linux 4.15.0-20-generic >> (x86_64) >> >> >>>> >> > flashrom is free software, get the source code at >> https://flashrom.org >> >> >>>> >> > >> >> >>>> >> > flashrom was built with libpci 3.5.2, GCC 7.3.0, little >> endian >> >> >>>> >> > Command line (5 args): ./flashrom -p rayer_spi -c KB9012 >> (EDI) -V >> >> >>>> >> > Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: >> 1ns). >> >> >>>> >> > Initializing rayer_spi programmer >> >> >>>> >> > Using address 0x378 as I/O base for parallel port access. >> >> >>>> >> > Using RayeR SPIPGM pinout. >> >> >>>> >> > The following protocols are supported: SPI. >> >> >>>> >> > Probing for ENE KB9012 (EDI), 128 kB: edi_chip_probe: >> reading hwversion failed >> >> >>>> >> > No EEPROM/flash device found. >> >> >>>> >> > Note: flashrom can never write if the flash chip isn't found >> automatically. >> >> >>>> >> > >> >> >>>> >> > How to get it working? Thanks a lot for help! >> >> >>>> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> >>>> >> > flashrom mailing list -- flashrom@flashrom.org >> >> >>>> >> > To unsubscribe send an email to flashrom-le...@flashrom.org >> >
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