I didn’t posted a file named “lajhsdaihd2q89yd9sicsdj.rar” (just a random name). If you look at that post, it has a number - 11, it has a link - this one, it has a file with a clear name - “Asmedia 104x flashers.rar”. Those are relevant informations, something that I thought it would be common sense to insert. When a user is not able to perform this basic step, how can I move forward and ask him about chip ID, flashing actions and such? My time is limited and precious, that is why I choose to ignore those that cannot help themselves. It maybe cruel, it maybe arrogant, but it keeps me away from things that would just climb my stress scale.
I will try to help you, assuming you understand my terms. I will need two things from you:
- first is to find the chip that stores the firmware, on the mainboard itself. This is not the same thing with the controller that has ASM1042A written on it. The chip should be located near by and it is 64KB or 512Kbit in size. Check this post and onwards on how to find it, especially this post shows you what to search. He was a chip Pm25LD512 under ASMedia ASM1042, which is exactly the size and location we wanted. Obviously, you need to locate the ASMedia ASM1042A controller (picture) and search around it.
- second step is to ask someone who successfully updated the firmware, to do the same thing. If he/she succeeded, that chip is supported and I can figure what to search and replace.
However, there is the possibility that there is no chip, the firmware is loaded from mainboard BIOS chip. This can explain why there is “no SPI ROM found” and the fact that the firmware detected by the flasher is the same as the firmware from mainboard firmware. I can patch the BIOS file and replace the firmware with the version 140124_10_10_04 posted by Fernando, but this hasn’t been tested before. Before jumping to this last solution, you could also get the file “Asmedia 104x flashers.rar” from this link, unpack the content to a bootable DOS and to a folder on your drive, then run testDOS.bat from DOS, testWIN.bat from a Windows system (preferably Win7, which was used at the time of writing those Win Flashers).