[LinuxBIOS] ticket 7 (flashing ICH-x mainboard)

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Jul 13 02:20:29 CEST 2007


On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:40:54PM +0300, Jouni Mettälä wrote:
> Based on intel 82802ab/82802ac datasheet. There is Top Block Lock.
> TBL# pin disables writing of highest addressable block when it is
> low.
> 
> When #TBL pin was desoldered and connected to Vcc (Is it right way
> to put it high?) Flashing with flashrom was succesful. Verify was
> ok.

Yeah, Vcc is fine. If you want to be super safe put a 10k resistor
but it's not strictly needed.

If the soldering is needed or not depends on the mainboard design.
Which mainboard was this?


//Peter




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