Hie guys i don’t know if I’m posting correctly about my current problem, i managed to get a Asus H97-PRO GAMER motherboard a couple months ago & it was using bios version 2003 so i decided to update the bios so that i could use my nvme drive. But i ran into a serious problem after the last update motherboard started Showing a Message after the Asus logo “Ec or Ec flash might be corrupted please contact Asus technical support” I tried to contact asus they just told me it’s a bios corruption so i decided to buy a new bios chip on ebay but am still facing the same message so if there’s anyone who can help i will glad appreciate it because am not sure what’s wrong the bios if it’s bios chip or its something else. Thank you: sorry for writing long paragraph
So you believe that this bios is corrupted, this dump being the new on the IC you bought?
This gen of Asus bios files have no specific issues programming them, with Asus web update bios files, just by removing the main Intel image from the .CAP or manually removing this 0x800 length header with an Hex.
You can try to re-program it again.
Alternately you can focus instead on the data from this IC pm25ld512
Or a potencial bad TPU and/or NUVOTON controller
Yous should wait for other users POV, good luck.
Thank you man & to tell the truth this is what am worried about especially that part which involves the TPU chip am not that much of a genius in programming stuff. But i will definitely try out any suggest & solution offered here. About the NUVOTON chip does it require being programmed as well or i can jus replace it with another brand new chip? i can across some info on another forum mentioning that the specific type of NUVOTON chip that i have doesn’t need programming since it’s firmware its in the bios chip so i don’t know how true is it but i will gladly appreciate any solution. Thank you again Sir @MeatWar
On the bios dump am not saying it’s corrupted i managed to use the Ch341a programmer to save info regarding Mac address/SN/ so that i won’t have problems incase it comes to flash the bios again.
The NUVOTON is for replace only, if i’m not mistaken, TPU never programmed any, remotely i cant point out anything else more…you’ll have to “dig” a bit more around, good luck.
Thank you i will dig deep & come back with progress.
Hie guys i know it’s been long since this post but i just wanted to thank you all i managed to revive the motherboard in question (Asus H97-PRO Gamer) which was displaying an Error “Ec or Ec flash might be corrupted please contact Asus technical support”. First i wana thank @MeatWar for pointing out the 2 chips in the comment section. Though it was the bios chip that was damaged the be bios chips i ordered were also showing the same message, then i decided to use the first bios from the website, removing the header in the hex editor & changing the cap file to bin file. It took me a couple of softwares to program the new chip. Theb viola everything went smooth. Also thanks to @LittleHill for taking his time to extract the tpu firmware from the main backup i sent him. Thank you all my motherboard is working flawlessly. I did use FD44 editor to restore SN & Mac address in the modded bios.