[MinnowBoard] Minnowboard Max no longer booting to UEFI Shell

[Adam Goode]

Can these boards do self-flashing? Like with the flashrom tool?

It would be nice to have future firmware updates available and not need an
external programmer.

Adam
On Aug 14, 2014 11:37 AM, "Hawley, John" <john.hawley at intel.com> wrote:

> If you have a SPI programmer that can do 1.8v (dediprog for instance), you
> can do the flashing yourself, but as I have been led to believe, a 3.3v spi
> flasher won't work.  You may need to talk to contact CircuitCo and send it
> back.
>
> If you do have something like a dediprog, let me know and I'll get you a
> firmware package to flash onto the board, and what you need to connect and
> such.
>
> - John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org [mailto:elinux-
> > minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org] On Behalf Of Lasse Kaila
> > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:04 AM
> > To: elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org
> > Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] Minnowboard Max no longer booting to UEFI
> > Shell
> >
> > Bryan Smith <bryan at ...> writes:
> >
> > >
> > > Hey Dave,
> > >
> > > I actually started looking at a flyswatter already as I figured that
> > > this was the case. Just wanted to report the issue.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Bryan
> > > > Bryan,
> > > >
> > > > this is the second report from an early adopter with this issue. it
> > > > appears to be a corruption of the UEFI firmware and appears to be
> > > > software related.
> > > > we are
> > > > looking into it now. the only way to fix this is to reflash the UEFI
> > > > firmware via the SPI header.
> > > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems we have a similar problem. Out of the two boards we have, the
> first
> > one stopped working yesterday. Both blue LEDs are lit, but there's no
> video
> > output at all, USB and Ethernet are also dead.
> >
> > What procedure do you recommend, should we return the board or is it
> > possible to do this reflash? I couldn't find any instructions or firmware
> > for the MAX board anywhere on Intel's site.
> >
> > On another note, I had to go through several monitors until I found one
> that
> > would accept the video signal output by the board (apparently it's 720p @
> > 60Hz). Perhaps a more universal video mode as default would be more
> > useful?
> >
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