Hi Steve,
On 04.05.2010 09:07, Steve Herber wrote:
I ran flashrom on an asus P4P800-VM motherboard and got this error:
tux tmp # flashrom -w P4PVM1018.rom flashrom v0.9.1-r710 Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK. Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00007810! Expected=0xff, Read=0x3c, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x8732
Looking at the error message, I'm pretty sure that you can reboot safely. It seems the erase command had no effect. Newer flashrom versions support the Asus P4P800-E Deluxe, and it should be possible to add support for your board as well. Could you please update to flashrom 0.9.1-r946 (or later) run the following commands as root and send the output to flashrom@flashrom.org
lspci -nnvvvxxx superiotool -deV flashrom -V
This would help us to find out if flashrom needs to be patched to support your board.
Regards, Carl-Daniel