Archive for November 20th, 2008
Aspire One BIOS of DOOM – Update
I’ve made slight progress with the BIOS issue on my A110 Aspire One. After performing a Recovery Flash (as described here) with the original BIOS (v3109), and using the following switches, I’ve been able to get another error! Unfortunately, even if I use the /n switch with the flashit.exe program, the machine reboots and the only way I was able to clearly see the error was to record it with my iPhone. The command and error are as follow:
flashit zg5_3307.fd /a /c /n
Error: IHISI 14h read comapre fail after write. Address: FFF00000
Note: That’s no typo – the error actually spells it comapre instead of compare.
The nearest I can tell is that at one point, I did an crisis recovery with the original BIOS version (3109) after having upgraded to a newer version, and that corrupted the Bootblock to a degree. Next step: dump the current BIOS to disk, then compare them and see what’s what.
Edit: It should be noted that the /a and /b switches for flashit.exe aren’t documented in the help for it (flashit /?). There appears to be a /f switch, but I’m not sure of it’s effects. Time to do a little digging as to what other switches are supported.
