AMD dual socket thread

[karbonkid]

This isn't working. I am having absolutely no luck flashing anything, stock or modded 8mb or 4mb, onto the 8mb chip... phlash16 complains of the part not being in the 'supported part table' or somesuch, even though it is the very exact same chip that MSI specify on their website.

Flashrom just gives up with an 'image size doesn't match' message.

Just to try, I tried flashing the latest 4mb BIOS (onto the 4mb chip), which was a success. It seems each BIOS chip has a Device ID and Mfr ID - I'm gonna have to try and hexedit them into Phlash16.exe

@ Takealready - Sounds like a sucky situation. I'd say the K9ND is kind of a dead-end board tbh - I got it cheap, otherwise I would have gone for a Tyan. MSI support has been helpful so far, but they stopped releasing BIOS for this board long ago, it doesn't even support Barcelona B3! Maybe I can transplant AGESA from Tyan n3600, it looks simple but it might not be and I don't know if my skill is up to it, and I probably won't have quad-cores to test with for quite a while yet.

EDIT:

eek - thunder & lighting outside, my screen just flickered. I'm surge protected but the wiring in the house isn't the best. Probably a sign that it's time to give up on computers for this afternoon!