Hello,

I am trying to write a chip SST 49LF008A in a P5W-DH board. This is not the original chip of the board, it's a hot flash. The flashrom properly detects the ICH7R chipset and the chip described above, but can only read from it no erase or write. The problem is that it does not enable the TBL pin on the chip, it stays low. I checked if the pin can be enabled by using the onboard flash utility from whitin the original BIOS of this board an i get a high on that pin ( +3.3V ) so it means that the chipset it's doing the work if properly enabled.

I tryied specifying another board model that has the same chipset, but it exists with a message that " no suitable boar enable found for the board name and manufacturer...".

I tried with version 0.9.7-r1711 and 0.9.5.2-r1546 under linux. Both gave the same results.

When it tries to erase/write to the chip i get 

"erase failed at 0x00000000! expected=0xff read=0x6d, failed byte count from 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff: 0x837

erase failed !

Reading current flash chip contents...done. erase failed at 0x00000000! Expected 0x0xff, Read=0x6d, failed byte count from 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff: 0x66dc

Erase failed !

Failed !

Can someone please instruct me on how to proceed further? Thank you very much for your kindness.

Alex.