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Bus Pirate and FlashRom saved my mainboard

July 28, 2010 in Bus Pirate, binmode, utilities by Ian | No comments

MrHijets’ BIOS update [machine translation] went sour, but he revived it with the Bus Pirate and FlashRom:

In my case, Flashrom and the Bus Pirate saved my motherboard…

FlashRom support is an example of how open source and community driven development can extend a project beyond it’s original design. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Bus Pirate project.

Get a Bus Pirate for $30, including worldwide shipping at Seeed Studio. Adafruit also has the Bus Pirate and probe cables in stock and ready to ship.

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Flashrom release

February 18, 2010 in Bus Pirate by Ian | No comments

ROM programmers and motherboard hackers will be happy to know that there’s a new release of Flashrom for Windows, ported by pgeorgi and posted informally in the forum.

Flashrom is an open source utility for working with flash storage chips. It supports a bunch of flash chips commonly used on motherboards to hold the system BIOS. biosflasher (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger) added Bus Pirate support to Flashrom, pgeorgi has been compiling a version for the Bus Pirate on Windows.

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Bus Pirate support in Flashrom project

December 1, 2009 in Bus Pirate, scripts by Ian | No comments

Flashrom is an open source utility for working with flash storage chips. It supports a bunch of flash chips commonly used on motherboards to hold the system BIOS.

biosflasher (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger) recently added Bus Pirate support to Flashrom. It should be possible to program SPI flash chips using the next release of Flashrom and the Bus Pirate hardware.

The C source code might be helpful for anyone adding Bus Pirate support to another app.

We sent biosflasher a Hackable LED Christmas Ornament in appreciation of all the hard work. Thanks biosflasher!

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