[MinnowBoard] Flashing MBM w/ SPI Hook

[John "Warthog9" Hawley]

You've got a dead (hardware) board, I'd contact rma at minnowboard.org and we'll get that moving.

- John

On October 10, 2015 2:18:23 PM CDT, Eric  <ericolv at cox.net> wrote:
>The first MBM I bought died a while back.   When I say 'died', I mean
>the
>board stopped functioning.  I plug it in and only one blue light comes
>on,
>that's it, nothing else happens.  It arrived this way when I bought it
>and I
>sent it back to CircuitCo, they reflashed it and sent it back.  It
>worked
>for a while, then went dead again.   I didn't want to spring for a
>DediProg,
>so when I heard about the SPI Hook, I bought one.   
>
>I've tried this with both the 32 and 64 bit version 0.83 firmware but
>no
>luck.  Here is the complete output from Flashrom w/SPI Hook
>
>
>===================Flashrom output====================
>sudo flashrom -p ft2232_spi:type=2232h,port=A,divisor=4 -w
>MinnowBoard.MAX.I32.083.R01.bin 
>
>flashrom v0.9.6.1-r1563 on Linux 3.19.0-30-generic (x86_64)
>flashrom is free software, get the source code at
>http://www.flashrom.org
>
>Calibrating delay loop... OK.
>===
>SFDP has autodetected a flash chip which is not natively supported by
>flashrom yet.
>All standard operations (read, verify, erase and write) should work,
>but to
>support all possible features we need to add them manually.
>You can help us by mailing us the output of the following command to
>flashrom at flashrom.org: 
>'flashrom -VV [plus the -p/--programmer parameter (if needed)]'
>Thanks for your help!
>===
>Found Unknown flash chip "SFDP-capable chip" (8192 kB, SPI) on
>ft2232_spi.
>Reading old flash chip contents... done.
>Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
>Verifying flash... VERIFIED.          
>
>===================End Flashrom output====================
>
>Error messages notwithstanding, it appears to have successfully flashed
>the
>board but when I plug it it, same thing, one blue light and nothing
>else.
>
>
>Anybody have input on what I might try or what I might be missing?
>
>Thanks
>
>
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