6970m vBIOS ISP / Pm25LD010

My latest project is trying to get an AMD 6970m graphics card working in my first release Alienware M17x. I needed a way to program the flash memory on the card that holds the BIOS, since the system won’t post with the card installed. The flash is a Pm25LD010 which is a 1Mb SPI 3.3V flash chip. I had the programmer I built for the last project with the M17x motherboard BIOS issue, but the SST25VF016B it was programmed for has a different program/erase operation. It’s also a bigger flash.

I modified the code for programming the SST25VF016B so that it works with the Pm25LD010 in the same programmer. If you build the programmer from my previous post this code will program the flash on the 6970m.

The code is C for linux. Just make from the directory, or the zip file here also has a compiled executable.

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Friday, August 24th, 2012 Electronics

1 Comment to 6970m vBIOS ISP / Pm25LD010

  • ramez says:

    Hi , i have brike my 6970m by fialed vbios , i buy spi programmer usb , but i donæt know how to recovery or fix the bios chip , just tell me wich programm i can used or how i can used by windows

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