Hi,
I was able to update my Fenvi AQC113C card. Thanks @Shonk for the info you provided, especially the hint to dump the flash chip first!
I now use 1.3.33 but I think I successfully tried 1.3.36 and 1.5.38, too.
If anyone wants to take the risk and try it:
- In the updatedata.xml, add '<pciid vid="1d6a" did="14c0" sdid="0001" svid="1d6a" />' to the existing entry with '<pciid vid="1d6a" did="04c0" sdid="0001" svid="1d6a" />'
- Optionally for 1.3.33: Change image to 'AQC113-DirtyWake_Bx_ASPM_Enabled-1.3.33_bdp_aqsign.clx'
- Edit flashUpdateScript.ps1, change './flashUpdate2 --update ATL2-8.0.1_agent_SIGN.clx updated.clx' to './flashUpdate2 --reflash ATL2-8.0.1_agent_SIGN.clx updated.clx'
Especially 2. seems to be important on this card. At least the flash chip on my card doesn’t like to be simply written/updated, it wants to be erased first. Otherwise, the data is corrupted afterwards!
My goal was to get ASPM working. And it looks like it does… well, at least it reports that it is working. This is the reason why I stay with 1.3.33. I’m not sure if any image from the other versions has ASPM, too.
@Shonk: Can you tell if ASPM is supported for your Gigabyte?
As this might help to get it working for other cards, these are roughly my steps to get it working:
I first ran customclx2 manually with the IDs from a random card to see by comparison what it changes in the firmware file. And of course, using a Hex editor to look at the files.
While it also changes something at the top, the interesting part was near the end, inside a zero (“00”) block. There was the “phy” value followed by the “mac” value.
Then I looked in the flash chip dump of my card and found this block at address 0x7FC20 (about the middle of the dump, end of the used area).
Though of course with a different value.
After comparing the begin of the block with the “phy” values from the updatedata.xml of a as close as possible version (my card had 1.3.21, so I checked 1.3.33), I found the entry mentioned above. The “phy” value matched exactly and the “mac” had the same length and looked similar.
I first thought I need to create a custom entry with a correct “mac” value for my card. It looks like the first part is depended on the card and the end is dependent on the version.
But that didn’t work. Staying with the value from the found entry was better.
I also noticed the “phy” value slightly changed in version 1.5.x.
Oh and I used the CH341A flash chip programmer a lot… I actually ended up improvising a socket on the card for the flash chip, so that I can quickly swap the chip between the card and the programmer.
It is possible to directly flash the updated.clx with it.
Marvell AQC113C FourPartID Firmware updater edit
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