First post, by BitsUndBolts
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Hey everyone!
I found an Intel SE440BX-2 (Seattle 2, 440BX, Slot 1) motherboard at my local scrapyard some time ago.
The board seems to have been distributed by "Micron Electronics" (I do not believe there is a relation to the memory manufacturer).
The BIOS of this board is P06, but I would like to update to P16.
Unfortunately, the Intel flashing utility (iFlash) aborts with the following error message:
(H48) Invalid reserved string in flash image header.
(H01): The flash data image read from disk was found to be not valid.
And then the process stops. Any idea what I could do?
I was thinking to desolder the BIOS chips and flash the BIOS directly, but Intel uses a proprietary BIOS format which seems to be encrypted to make things more difficult.
I could extract my current BIOS using Uniflash. Maybe someone who has this board with a standard BIOS could share a dump of their BIOS extracted with Uniflash - but I have no idea if this would work.
Any other suggestions what I could try are welcome!
Thanks