Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745

2010-01-08 Thread Anthony DeRosa
carldani, Requested output below. Invalid opcode? The MX25L8005 datasheet says the part supports opcode 0x03, read data. -Anthony ubu...@ubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom -c MX25L8005 -V -r backup.bin flashrom v0.9.1-r837 No coreboot table found. Found chipset Intel ICH8/ICH8R, enabling

Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745

2010-01-08 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Anthony, On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Anthony DeRosa anth...@ransomed.us wrote: carldani, Requested output below.  Invalid opcode?  The MX25L8005 datasheet says the part supports opcode 0x03, read data. IIRC the newer Dell OptiPlex series have a special way for flashing the BIOS. You

Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745

2010-01-08 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Adrian Glaubitz adrian.glaub...@googlemail.com wrote: IIRC the newer Dell OptiPlex series have a special way for flashing the BIOS. You use a Dell-provided utility to copy the new BIOS image into a special (non-volatile?) memory, then reboot the machine. Once

Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745

2010-01-08 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 08.01.2010 18:06, ron minnich wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Adrian Glaubitz wrote IIRC the newer Dell OptiPlex series have a special way for flashing the BIOS. You use a Dell-provided utility to copy the new BIOS image into a special (non-volatile?) memory, then reboot the machine.

Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745

2010-01-08 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 08.01.2010 16:16, Anthony DeRosa wrote: Requested output below. Invalid opcode? The MX25L8005 datasheet says the part supports opcode 0x03, read data. As discussed on IRC, the READ opcode 0x03 is not supported by your chipset configuration. ubu...@ubuntu:~/flashrom$ sudo ./flashrom

Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745

2010-01-08 Thread Joerg Mayer
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:06:52AM -0800, ron minnich wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Adrian Glaubitz adrian.glaub...@googlemail.com wrote: IIRC the newer Dell OptiPlex series have a special way for flashing the BIOS. You use a Dell-provided utility to copy the new BIOS image into

Re: [flashrom] Error Reading BIOS on Dell Optiplex 745

2010-01-07 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi Anthony, On 07.01.2010 22:55, Anthony DeRosa wrote: The bios version I am currently using (2.6.2) is no longer available for download, but i happen to have a copy of it attached (raw ROM file). I have stripped the ROM image from your mail before it could reach the list because we don't have