On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:30:11 -0500 Elvis Kit elviskit@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am getting this error message when i attempt to re-flash the bricked bios of this motherboard. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
e6410 Test # flashrom -p serprog:dev=/dev/ttyACM0:2000000 -w HIB_716.ROM flashrom v0.9.7-r1764 on Linux 3.2.0-4-486 (i686) flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... OK. serprog: Programmer name is "serprog-duino" Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q16.V" (2048 kB, SPI) on serprog. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Found=0x00, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff: 0x1000 ERASE FAILED! Reading current flash chip contents... done. FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Found=0x00, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00007fff: 0x8000 ERASE FAILED! Reading current flash chip contents... Error: invalid response 0x00 from device Can't read anymore! Aborting. FAILED! Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything changed. Error: invalid response 0x00 from device 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!
Thanks in advance!
Probably bad wiring. It is also important to connect *all* (input) pins of the flash chip.