[flashrom] Re: In a bind

2019-12-29 Thread Mike Banon
Try to shorten the wires between SOIC8 and CH341A and/or replace them with the copper ones, maybe that would help. On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 9:00 PM AL VAN DER LAAN wrote: > > I am trying to flash the HP Elitebook 850 G2 - as mentioned three went > succesful but the one I forgot to erase first did

[flashrom] Thanking for the tool

2019-12-29 Thread Omer Basri
Hi, I would like to thank you for development of the flashrom tool, as I was able to fix my bios via the tool. The chip I have is gigadevice GD25B128C and I was able to use the settings for GD25Q128C. The software informed me that reading or writing to this chip wasn't tested so I thought it would

[flashrom] Re: In a bind

2019-12-29 Thread Mike Banon
You haven't described what device you are trying to flash. Usually there's nothing wrong with using SOIC8 test clip, for the laptops. However, some routers/hdmi recorders/other devices of this type, may try powering its' main CPU from a test clip and interfere with your programming through a test c

[flashrom] Re: winbond w25128jvsm bios chip for asus chromebox cn65

2019-12-29 Thread Mike Banon
Are you trying in-system-programming (i.e. with a test clip like SOIC8 or SOIC16) ? If yes, try to shorten the wires between a programmer and a test clip, and/or replace them by the good copper ones. On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 4:14 AM Eds Orioque wrote: > > try to flash this bios chip and this is th

[flashrom] Re: In a bind

2019-12-29 Thread Mike Banon
> MX25L12835F/MX25L12845E/MX25L12865E This doesn't seem to be one-time-programmable. Have you tried flashing it on Linux instead of OS X ? Are you doing ISP (In system programming, i.e. with a test clip like SOIC8 or SOIC16) ? At the moment it's unclear to me why your erase operation is failing...