flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -r bios.bin -V flashrom v0.9.9-r1954 on Linux 4.4.0-kali1-amd64 (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org flashrom was built with libpci 3.3.1, GCC 5.3.1 20160307, little endian Command line (5 args): flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -r bios.bin -V Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 1794M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 103 us, 1000 myus = 1002 us, 10000 myus = 9998 us, 4 myus = 4 us, OK. Initializing internal programmer No coreboot table found. Using Internal DMI decoder. DMI string chassis-type: "Notebook" Laptop detected via DMI. DMI string system-manufacturer: "ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC." DMI string system-product-name: "X202E" DMI string system-version: "1.0 " DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC." DMI string baseboard-product-name: "X202E" DMI string baseboard-version: "1.0 " ======================================================================== WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing. See the manpage and https://flashrom.org/Laptops for details. If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop and write may brick your laptop. Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight failure and sudden poweroff. You have been warned. ======================================================================== Proceeding anyway because user forced us to. Found chipset "Intel HM76" with PCI ID 8086:1e59. This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version of flashrom *and* were (not) able to successfully update your firmware with it, then please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org including a verbose (-V) log. Thank you! Enabling flash write... Root Complex Register Block address = 0xfed1c000 GCS = 0xc61: BIOS Interface Lock-Down: enabled, Boot BIOS Straps: 0x3 (SPI) Top Swap: enabled (A16(+) inverted) 0xfff80000/0xffb80000 FWH IDSEL: 0x0 0xfff00000/0xffb00000 FWH IDSEL: 0x0 0xffe80000/0xffa80000 FWH IDSEL: 0x1 0xffe00000/0xffa00000 FWH IDSEL: 0x1 0xffd80000/0xff980000 FWH IDSEL: 0x2 0xffd00000/0xff900000 FWH IDSEL: 0x2 0xffc80000/0xff880000 FWH IDSEL: 0x3 0xffc00000/0xff800000 FWH IDSEL: 0x3 0xff700000/0xff300000 FWH IDSEL: 0x4 0xff600000/0xff200000 FWH IDSEL: 0x5 0xff500000/0xff100000 FWH IDSEL: 0x6 0xff400000/0xff000000 FWH IDSEL: 0x7 0xfff80000/0xffb80000 FWH decode enabled 0xfff00000/0xffb00000 FWH decode enabled 0xffe80000/0xffa80000 FWH decode enabled 0xffe00000/0xffa00000 FWH decode enabled 0xffd80000/0xff980000 FWH decode enabled 0xffd00000/0xff900000 FWH decode enabled 0xffc80000/0xff880000 FWH decode enabled 0xffc00000/0xff800000 FWH decode enabled 0xff700000/0xff300000 FWH decode enabled 0xff600000/0xff200000 FWH decode enabled 0xff500000/0xff100000 FWH decode enabled 0xff400000/0xff000000 FWH decode enabled Maximum FWH chip size: 0x100000 bytes SPI Read Configuration: prefetching enabled, caching enabled, BIOS_CNTL = 0x09: BIOS Lock Enable: disabled, BIOS Write Enable: enabled SPIBAR = 0x00007f24fe4f8000 + 0x3800 0x04: 0xe008 (HSFS) HSFS: FDONE=0, FCERR=0, AEL=0, BERASE=1, SCIP=0, FDOPSS=1, FDV=1, FLOCKDN=1 Warning: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. Reading OPCODES... done 0x06: 0x3f00 (HSFC) HSFC: FGO=0, FCYCLE=0, FDBC=63, SME=0 0x50: 0x00000a0b (FRAP) BMWAG 0x00, BMRAG 0x00, BRWA 0x0a, BRRA 0x0b 0x54: 0x00000000 FREG0: Warning: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-only. 0x58: 0x07ff0200 FREG1: BIOS region (0x00200000-0x007fffff) is read-write. 0x5C: 0x01ff0003 FREG2: Warning: Management Engine region (0x00003000-0x001fffff) is locked. 0x60: 0x00020001 FREG3: Gigabit Ethernet region (0x00001000-0x00002fff) is read-write. Not all flash regions are freely accessible by flashrom. This is most likely due to an active ME. Please see https://flashrom.org/ME for details. Writes have been disabled for safety reasons. You can enforce write support with the ich_spi_force programmer option, but you will most likely harm your hardware! If you force flashrom you will get no support if something breaks. On a few mainboards it is possible to enable write access by setting a jumper (see its documentation or the board itself). 0x90: 0xc0 (SSFS) SSFS: SCIP=0, FDONE=0, FCERR=0, AEL=0 0x91: 0xf84030 (SSFC) SSFC: SCGO=0, ACS=0, SPOP=0, COP=3, DBC=0, SME=0, SCF=0 0x94: 0x0006 (PREOP) 0x96: 0x043b (OPTYPE) 0x98: 0x05203b02 (OPMENU) 0x9C: 0x0000019f (OPMENU+4) 0xA0: 0x00000000 (BBAR) 0xC4: 0x00802005 (LVSCC) LVSCC: BES=0x1, WG=1, WSR=0, WEWS=0, EO=0x20, VCL=1 0xC8: 0x00002005 (UVSCC) UVSCC: BES=0x1, WG=1, WSR=0, WEWS=0, EO=0x20 0xD0: 0x00000000 (FPB) Enabling hardware sequencing because some important opcode is locked. OK. The following protocols are supported: FWH, Programmer-specific. Probing for Programmer Opaque flash chip, 0 kB: Hardware sequencing reports 1 attached SPI flash chip with a density of 8192 kB. Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (8192 kB, Programmer-specific) mapped at physical address 0x0000000000000000. Probing for Atmel AT49LH002, 256 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0x8b, id2 0xec, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Atmel AT49LH00B4, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Atmel AT49LH004, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Intel 82802AB, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Intel 82802AC, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for PMC Pm49FL002, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0x8b, id2 0xec, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for PMC Pm49FL004, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Sharp LHF00L04, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for SST SST49LF002A/B, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0x8b, id2 0xec, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for SST SST49LF003A/B, 384 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xc6, id2 0x40, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for SST SST49LF004A/B, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for SST SST49LF004C, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for SST SST49LF008A, 1024 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for SST SST49LF008C, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for SST SST49LF016C, 2048 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for ST M50FLW040A, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for ST M50FLW040B, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for ST M50FLW080A, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for ST M50FLW080B, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for ST M50FW002, 256 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0x8b, id2 0xec, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for ST M50FW016, 2048 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for ST M50FW040, 512 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for ST M50FW080, 1024 kB: probe_82802ab: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Winbond W39V040FA, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Winbond W39V040FB, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Winbond W39V040FC, 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Winbond W49V002FA, 256 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0x8b, id2 0xec, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Winbond W39V080FA, 1024 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xff, id2 0xff, id1 parity violation, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Probing for Winbond W39V080FA (dual mode), 512 kB: probe_jedec_common: id1 0xc7, id2 0x45, id1 is normal flash content, id2 is normal flash content Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (8192 kB, Programmer-specific). Reading flash... Reading 8388608 bytes starting at 0x000000. Transaction error between offset 0x00003000 and 0x0000303f (= 0x00003000 + 63)! HSFS: FDONE=1, FCERR=1, AEL=0, BERASE=1, SCIP=0, FDOPSS=1, FDV=1, FLOCKDN=1 HSFC: FGO=0, FCYCLE=0, FDBC=63, SME=0 Read operation failed! FAILED. Restoring MMIO space at 0x7f24fe4fb8a0 Restoring PCI config space for 00:1f:0 reg 0xdc