I actually had lost my original backups and had to ask others on Overclock owners thread to supply me with a backup but part of the problem is that I think Station-Drivers has mixed up the 1042 and 1042A/AE firmwares. I think we need a repository here on Win-Raid to sort out all the Asmedia Roms and flashers but I agree its very dangerous if you don’t know what your doing. At least it tells you the old and new firmware versions but wish there was a “are you sure?” dialogue before it actually flashed away.

Just bricked something late last night! Never flash past midnight! It was a 1142 controller and after flashing the device disappeared. I used a windows executable flasher supplied by Asus and replaced the rom with a device id modded one replacing the Asus rom with my own. I couldnt flash via dos because my csm is borked and get no picture when I turn on legacy mode. The same procedure worked on another machine but not this one or this time.

Though it wasnt as bad as it seemed. After panicking I realized that the Asmedia controller was one a removable $20 dollar pci card. Not my motherboard. So later going to try to use a test clip and flash it again. Anyone know where the rom chip might be? My guess is its the one with the dot on it:

It must be blood, sweat and tears on your side :)

Good change that it is the rom chip, is it possible to remove the red dot on the chip (try to dissolve it with a q-tip and some alcohol) so that the partnumber is clearly visible and then send a new picture?

BTW, if the PCI card is only worth $20 why not buying a new one?

Because it would be fun to reflash it via my ch341a. Ill dissolve the paint after work. Thanks.

Just an update. Didn't need to jump start the card and was able to reflash it back to working order in another machine at the dos prompt. Was weird because device manager recognized the card though with a yellow exclamation mark which went away after installing the latest Asmedia drivers though could not recognize any usb device attached to it. So I rolled it back to an older firmware revision and its working now. Sad that I had to put my Ch341A programmer back in the draw..

Thanks

Hello,

My board is a MSI 970A-G43 Plus with this USB specs:

USB

• ASMedia® ASM1143 Chipset
- 2 x USB 3.1 Gen2 (SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps) ports on the back panel
• ASMedia® ASM1042AE Chipset
- 2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 (SuperSpeed USB) ports available through the internal USB 3.1 Gen1 connector

I discovered that my ASM1042A is on 140328_10_02_00 version (maybe latest?)

I can't upgrade 1143 on windows because I have this error with "ASM114xFWUpdate.exe": "Your Host Device Is Not Ready, Firmware Upgrade Failed!!! Please reboot your PC then try again!!!."



Can anybody help me? Thanks a lot!

@snowind

I would first verify the proper hardware ids of your asmedia chipset with LSPCI in a command prompt window. Google search "LSPCI windows eternally bored". Run it in an admin command window like this: 'lspci -nn -v' and look for the hardware id's for your asmedia chipset to verify what you have. I had the same issue trying to get to "150707_30_02_10" using the Windows flasher and found that flashing a lower version first helped. I have to warn you though that these newer firmware versions are specific to the hardware vendor that released them and it may not work or cause hard drive issues. I had a usb drive fail on me almost with 150707_30_02_10. Also I think that firmware is for 1142 not 1143 but I could be wrong. But if you want to go ahead with the operation I would create a dos bootable usb stick with Rufus and use the dos flashing tools to flash the firmwares directly using these tools:

a. http://www.mediafire.com/file/6sqxu8...31025.zip/file
b: http://www.mediafire.com/file/boj3ea...02_0D.zip/file

and make sure you dump your firmware like this:
"114Xfwdl.exe /A" for 1142/3
"104Xfwdl.exe /A" for 1042

Very important you create a backup so you can go back if not work!!

@davidm71

First thanks for the info. I run LSPCI and obtained this:


06:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042A USB 3.0 Host Controller [1b21:1142] (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:7974]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at fe600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [68] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked-
Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00

03:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device [1b21:1343] (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:7974]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at fe700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [68] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked-
Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint, MSI 00

Is this correct?

Looks right. The second one doesnt identify itself but it sounds like it is as you said that you have a 1042A and 1143 usb controller. Upgrading the first one is easy but I am not sure about the second one. I got all my roms from Station-Drivers and I recommend you try to flash a lower version first but not sure about 1143..

I have an Asus P8Z68-V Pro motherboard. I have tried with every version on Station-Drivers but tells me "The 1th Host ChipType and firmware are un-Match! Do you want to continue going?". I have tried to keep on and it tells me that the firmware update has failed with no visible damage.

Can you help me?

this post did it for me without any problem

post 198 in treath

Ok also have this motherboard ( my other one a Asus just went fine ) here and indeed same faults as you !!
Wonder what to do !!

Zitat

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Hi, i`m trying to update the firmware of my Asmedia 1042 on a Asrock Z77 extreme4. I have tried the firmware from post #75 and others, but none of them can find my controller? What am i doing wrong?

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Hi,
First of all, thanks for all of your great works! I have 2 ASM1042 ExpressCard to USB 3.0 (from Alliexpress). The first one uses PH25Q40B as a SPI chip which is flashed by 104XFWDL.exe successfully. However, the second one uses P25Q40H as a SPI chip which can not be flashed (Read rom id failed ... SPIROM not found!).

First pne: Flash success


Second one: SPIROM not found!

To ASMEDIA USB v3.x Controller user's:

On Station drivers is now available a new firmware named "150707_30_02_1F" which should be the normal successor of "150707_30_02_10".
However, I don't succeed to update the ASM controller ship of my ASUS Sabertooth X99 motherboard and I get et a "Host not ready error message"

All previous updates from the beginning where OK as reported hereafter:
141231_30_02_0D => 150707_30_02_00 using ASMEDIA XHCI Firmware Upgrade Tool v0.2.0.0


150707_30_02_00 => 150707_30_02_0C using ASMEDIA XHCI Firmware Upgrade Tool v0.2.0.3


150707_30_02_0C => 150707_30_02_10 using ASMEDIA XHCI Firmware Upgrade Tool v0.2.2.0


A preliminary check done with ASMEDIA XHCI Firmware Upgrade Tool v0.2.2.0 before update does confirm the current Firmware installed


The attempt to update the current Firmware from 150707_30_02_10 => 150707_30_02_1F using the ASMEDIA XHCI Firmware Upgrade Tool v0.2.0.5 does fail.
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Does anybody observe the same problem ?