Freitag, 26. Juni 2009

Board is alive again!!!

Yes, we did it! Great success! My mainboard is back from the dead. With the cable we build and some serious compiling we managed to flash the asus p5b flash/bios through the spi_j.
When i had the cable build and spipgm detected the chip the first time, i was almost sure that that was it. Check out my first video with some flashing that looked good but only filled the flash/bios with lots of FF values. Then i learned that one needs to recompile the spipgm executable to work with the special write mode that is needed for the p5b chip. I downloaded one already precompiled executable from http://richard-burke.dyndns.org/wordpress/2009/02/107/#comments. But still no success as i again tried the /p option of spipgm to flash. This seems not to be working for p5b as the new write method only gets invoked when flashing with the /s option. This is what i did and finally, the bios contained sensmaking material. A first md5sum showed the bios contained exactly the flashed data. Then, a test, it worked, great success :) Thanks for all the great help and keep up the good work!

2 Kommentare:

  1. very great job, and great how to!
    i ve the same problem, with my p5b deluxe.(flashing failed from 64 bit windows 7, and my mobo did not boot anymore) i have to make a flashing cable like yours.

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  2. i have made the cable, and it worked! my mobo is alive again!

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