Hello,

I am trying to program the bios chip with the ch341a but I can’t erase it successful with what software I tried… even with yours. Please could you give me any advice? Thanks in advance.

Enter flashrom to probe for flash chips.

C:\Users\Christos\Desktop\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky-main\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky>flashroom --help

'flashroom' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Christos\Desktop\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky-main\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky>flashrom --help

flashrom v1.2 on Windows 10.0 (x86_64)

flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Usage: flashrom [-h|-R|-L|

        -p <programmername>[:<parameters>] [-c <chipname>]

                (--flash-name|--flash-size|

                 [-E|(-r|-w|-v) <file>]

                 [(-l <layoutfile>|--ifd| --fmap|--fmap-file <file>) [-i <imagename>]...]

                 [-n] [-N] [-f])]

        [-V[V[V]]] [-o <logfile>]

-h | --help                        print this help text

-R | --version                     print version (release)

-r | --read <file>                 read flash and save to <file>

-w | --write <file>                write <file> to flash

-v | --verify <file>               verify flash against <file>

-E | --erase                       erase flash memory

-V | --verbose                     more verbose output

-c | --chip <chipname>             probe only for specified flash chip

-f | --force                       force specific operations (see man page)

-n | --noverify                    don't auto-verify

-N | --noverify-all                verify included regions only (cf. -i)

-l | --layout <layoutfile>         read ROM layout from <layoutfile>

      --flash-name                  read out the detected flash name

      --flash-size                  read out the detected flash size

      --fmap                        read ROM layout from fmap embedded in ROM

      --fmap-file <fmapfile>        read ROM layout from fmap in <fmapfile>

      --ifd                         read layout from an Intel Firmware Descriptor

-i | --image <name>                only flash image <name> from flash layout

-o | --output <logfile>            log output to <logfile>

      --flash-contents <ref-file>   assume flash contents to be <ref-file>

-L | --list-supported              print supported devices

-p | --programmer <name>[:<param>] specify the programmer device. One of

    dummy, serprog, buspirate_spi, dediprog, developerbox, pony_spi,

    pickit2_spi, ch341a_spi, digilent_spi, stlinkv3_spi.

You can specify one of -h, -R, -L, -E, -r, -w, -v or no operation.

If no operation is specified, flashrom will only probe for flash chips.

C:\Users\Christos\Desktop\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky-main\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky>flashrom --progranner ch314a_spi[:read]

flashrom v1.2 on Windows 10.0 (x86_64)

flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

flashrom: unknown option -- progranner

Please run "flashrom --help" for usage info.

C:\Users\Christos\Desktop\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky-main\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky>flashrom --progranner ch314a_spi --read 1MB.bin

flashrom v1.2 on Windows 10.0 (x86_64)

flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

flashrom: unknown option -- progranner

Please run "flashrom --help" for usage info.

C:\Users\Christos\Desktop\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky-main\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky>flashrom --programmer ch314a_spi --read 1MB.bin

flashrom v1.2 on Windows 10.0 (x86_64)

flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Error: Unknown programmer "ch314a_spi". Valid choices are:

dummy, serprog, buspirate_spi, dediprog, developerbox, pony_spi, pickit2_spi,

ch341a_spi, digilent_spi, stlinkv3_spi.

Please run "flashrom --help" for usage info.

C:\Users\Christos\Desktop\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky-main\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky>flashrom --programmer ch314a_spi --read 1MB.bin

flashrom v1.2 on Windows 10.0 (x86_64)

flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Error: Unknown programmer "ch314a_spi". Valid choices are:

dummy, serprog, buspirate_spi, dediprog, developerbox, pony_spi, pickit2_spi,

ch341a_spi, digilent_spi, stlinkv3_spi.

Please run "flashrom --help" for usage info.

C:\Users\Christos\Desktop\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky-main\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky>flashrom --programmer ch341a_spi --read 1MB.bin

flashrom v1.2 on Windows 10.0 (x86_64)

flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.

Found Macronix flash chip "MX25U8032E" (1024 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.

Reading flash... done.

C:\Users\Christos\Desktop\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky-main\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky>flashrom --programmer ch341a_spi --erase

flashrom v1.2 on Windows 10.0 (x86_64)

flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.

Found Macronix flash chip "MX25U8032E" (1024 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.

Erasing and writing flash chip... FAILED at 0x0006df74! Expected=0xff, Found=0xef, failed byte count from 0x0006d000-0x0006dfff: 0x1

ERASE FAILED!

Looking for another erase function.

FAILED at 0x0000da5b! Expected=0xff, Found=0xf7, failed byte count from 0x00008000-0x0000ffff: 0x1

ERASE FAILED!

Looking for another erase function.

FAILED at 0x00010dc5! Expected=0xff, Found=0xfb, failed byte count from 0x00010000-0x0001ffff: 0x4

ERASE FAILED!

Looking for another erase function.

FAILED at 0x00028bf9! Expected=0xff, Found=0x7b, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x000fffff: 0x8

ERASE FAILED!

Looking for another erase function.

FAILED at 0x000046ed! Expected=0xff, Found=0xef, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x000fffff: 0x9

ERASE FAILED!

Looking for another erase function.

Looking for another erase function.

Looking for another erase function.

No usable erase functions left.

FAILED!

Your flash chip is in an unknown state.

Please report this on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or

mail flashrom@flashrom.org, thanks!

C:\Users\Christos\Desktop\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky-main\Flashrom_v1.2_St1cky>

Regards,

Christos