I had alot of problems with the RD1 bios savior on my EPIA5000 board. I lost track of the times I tried to flash it, it certainly seemed alot more than 10 times. In the end I wrote a small script to just sit there and try and flash the RD1 bios until it verified. It actually worked on the 5th attempt. I now have the original bios in the RD1 flash and am using the on-board flash for linuxbios (although it does not boot yet). The on-board flash, programs first time. There is a note on the Linuxbios web site about the RD1 bios savior and the fact that it doesn't program very well. Of course the EPIA-M has a different chipset so there may be other problems, but I suspect it is just down to the flash on the RD1.

Ben

* lists@actweb.info <lists@actweb.info> [060809 01:49]:
  
 i have an EPIA-M m/board with an SST39SF020A bios chip, along with an
 RD1-PL 2Mbit bios savour, are these both 2Mb chips? i have tried
 writing the RD1 with a image file, but it always fails :( anyone any
 pointers?

have so far tried to write image aprox 8 times, still with no luck :(
this is the output from flashrom :-
    

Have you tried to write it and read it back?
I get the same error
  
Enabling flash write on VT8235...tried to set 0x45 to 0x55 on VT8235 failed (WARNING ONLY)
    
ocassionally, but writing works fine. 

  Stefan