PonyProg to flash Mainboard EEPROM via SPI pins - HELP
Date: August 01, 2009 11:23PM
Hey Guys,
A Bit of a copy and paste from some other computer forums i posted my Dilemma in, but in short i need a EEPROM programmer that can flash a BIOS via the SPI jumpers. im a bit of a noob when it comes to the programming of the EEPROM but was wandering if the Ponyprog would do the trick
the board has an 8 Mbit SPI Serial Flash - SST25VF080B soldered on it, please see below pic, any help would be much appreciated
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datasheet is here: www.sst.com/downloads/datasheet/S71296.pdf
Post from other forums below:
[size=85]yeah i know what your thinking and im thinking the same.. shouldnt have bought ECS.. anyways. i have got an X58B-A2 board and upon flashing to the latest BIOS win AFUDOS in "dos" mode the flash went ok, checksum'd all good, then i restarted to get the the board POSTing all ok and just before it gets to the booting an OS i get the messages pictured below, ok so F1 set time etc etc and F10 Enter, then i get the seccond pic, and it keeps goin on like this,
as now i cant boot to my USB-Floppy i cant flash the old BIOS back. has anyone got any ideas (apart from RMA), or does anyone know of a way to flash the EEPROM through the SPI jumpers?
thanks in advance[/size]
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