Motherboard [24/03/2025]ASRock DeskMini A/X300 BIOS - "P2.10.SL01"(Curve Optimizer & S3 support) & "P2.10B"(ACS) & "P2.10" for X300 - AGESAv2 Pi "1.2.0.Cc"

C9923

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Mar 22, 2025
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Be warned this crap is unfixable bricked. The CH341A with 1.8 V adapter and the clip does not work. No IC detected. Winbond 25Q128FWSQ
is not supported. Only 25Q128FW. It can be erased sometimes. It can be written. But no verifying. After flashing the system is not able to boot.

I used windows softwares:

NeoProgrammer
AS Programmer

Linux:

Flashrom (no ic detected, its not able to read or flash)
 
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Maxkmk

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Mar 17, 2023
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Be warned this crap is unfixable bricked. The CH341A with 1.8 V adapter and the clip does not work. No IC detected. Winbond 25Q128FWSQ
is not supported. Only 25Q128FW. It can be erased sometimes. It can be written. But no verifying. After flashing the system is not able to boot.

I used windows softwares:

NeoProgrammer
AS Programmer

Linux:

Flashrom (no ic detected, its not able to read or flash)
Thank you for the information. Is it possible that your Bios chip is broken.
 

tomek

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Apr 24, 2024
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Be warned this crap is unfixable bricked. The CH341A with 1.8 V adapter and the clip does not work. No IC detected. Winbond 25Q128FWSQ
is not supported. Only 25Q128FW. It can be erased sometimes. It can be written. But no verifying. After flashing the system is not able to boot.

I used windows softwares:

NeoProgrammer
AS Programmer

Linux:

Flashrom (no ic detected, its not able to read or flash)

I have also bricked a300 during crossflash and probably burned flash chip when trying to use flash clips with ch341a programmer. Same sympthons as yours.

The best method is to use soldering iron. Program blank flash with ch341a and find someone who can use soldering iron.
Also FWSQ is OK, i have restored my a300 bios with FWSG flash chip - they're all the same, just different p/n

FYI - there is a header near bios chip on motherboard for flashing bios without any clips or desoldering but asrock wont share any diagrams...
- but you'll need bunch of cables to use with that non standard (smaller than 2.54mm ones) header on motherboard.
 

C9923

Efficiency Noob
Mar 22, 2025
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The clips are not needed. The motherboard has a spi header. You need only 2.54mm (USB programmer) to 2.00mm (SPI/TPM) pitch plug cables.
I will try this first. Maybe the chip is still working.

I used the clip correctly aligned. But im not sure about the contact alignment. May be it slided a few times too much.
 

C9923

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Mar 22, 2025
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The on hardwareluxx mentioned plugs (2.00mm (SPI/TPM)) are too big for the A300 spi header. You need maybe 1 mm plugs.





These 2 mm connectors are suitable for the panel 1 header for start, reset, power- and drive led. A header which is multiple times bigger than this tiny spi header.

Without housing the bended pins (for grip) have minimal gaps:



Too little for kapton tape.

The space between the pins are ~1 mm. So this connector has to big spaces. You will need a cable which equals this, but with a tinier connector.

The connector is called:

1.27 mm pitch idc 10p

In addition you need an adapter like this but with 1.27 pitch pins:



This kind, with 8 pins.

Now you have only to rewire the 1.27 mm pitch idc connectors.

I have measured the CH341 programmers voltages, only one voltage is at 3.3 V:



The 1.8 V adapter should still do the voltage regulation for the data lines per chip and the digital resistor.

An explaination video. The data lines at 5 V should do no damage, but i would consider malfunction. It would be better to order the rev. 1.5 of the programmer, with voltage switch:



The X300 @ bios version 2.10 has no cold boot bug and is not resetting the bios. I bought the A300 4 months before the release of the X300 in 2020.

But be aware the bios version 1.90 is not able to boot further than the warning scrren with "new cpu installed, ftpm psp nv corrupted or ftpm /psp nv structure changed.

Only n key is working with some keyboards, connected with front panel USB-A. Before i connected the working keyboard, i cleared cmos 2 times (which results in different text, it removed the get into bios notice).

After getting into windows you have to start the "Restart to UEFI" tool in order to reboot after n button into the bios and update the bios version to 2.10.

The Asrock Auto Installer bios function is also useless, it will appear on windows anyway.

The 1.70E beta bios for the A300 has the same skin as the X300 bios.

Does the X300 bios on A300 contain ddr4 ram speeds above 3200 mhz?
 
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