SuperThunder / HP_Z420_Z620_Z820_BootBlock_Upgrade

A guide and collection of resources on how to make 'version 1' HP Z420, Z620, and Z820 workstations compatible with Ivy Bridge processors.
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Update to "Dumpping SPI Chip Contents (your current BIOS)" in the PDF #16

Open EazyServer opened 1 week ago

EazyServer commented 1 week ago

When I was dumpping the bios content via this command

flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=10000 -r z620_bios_1.bin

then take sha256 I was not able to get same sha256 on multi runs of the above command!

I tried the repining many times and never worked! which puzzled me as I was I able to communicate with the chip why it's not fetching same content!

I then changed the speed to spisped=5000 and to my surprise it worked from first time (without even reconnecting the pins or the clamp!)

I tried 5 times and I get same sha256 every time! and you may think reducing the speed to 5000 may take ages, it didn't (it took a bit longer but was not significant)

So I recommend changing the speed of reading and writing to spisped=5000 instead of spisped=10000

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EazyServer commented 1 week ago

Forgot to say my thanks for the guide as I was able to successfully upgrade my z620 to v2 (with the mod mentioned in here) 🙂 Cheers