Hey all,

Im trying to put the original firmware back on an ASUS ThunderboltEX3 card. The reader has found the Winbond chip but it says it’s in an unknown state.  Message below. How should I proceed?

michaelhussey@Michaels-MacBook-Pro ~ % sudo flashrom -p ch341a_spi   

flashrom v1.2 on Darwin 19.3.0 (x86_64)

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


Calibrating delay loop... OK.

Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q80.V" (1024 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.

No operations were specified.

michaelhussey@Michaels-MacBook-Pro ~ % sudo flashrom -p ch341a_spi -w /Users/michaelhussey/Desktop/chip1_Fw.bin 

flashrom v1.2 on Darwin 19.3.0 (x86_64)

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


Calibrating delay loop... OK.

Found Generic flash chip "unknown SPI chip (REMS)" (0 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.

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This flash part has status NOT WORKING for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE

The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest development

version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development version,

please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org if any of the above operations

work correctly for you with this flash chip. Please include the flashrom log

file for all operations you tested (see the man page for details), and mention

which mainboard or programmer you tested in the subject line.

Thanks for your help!

Error: Image size (299008 B) doesn't match the flash chip's size (0 B)!

michaelhussey@Michaels-MacBook-Pro ~ %