Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 11:32 -0500 schrieb Bruno Vaillancourt:
Trying to flash my bios and I get this message any idea what is the problem
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Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000008! Expected=0xff, Read=0x10, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x000fffff: 0x8b465 ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED! FAILED!
If you have a backup of your old BIOS contents (created with flashrom -r), please run 'flashrom -v oldbackup.bin' and if it says 'VERIFIED' nothing changed and it should be safe to reboot.
Please mail the output of 'flashrom -V', 'lspci -nnvvvxxx', 'superiotool -deV' (all commands as root), the exact name of your board (including revision, if there are multiple revisions), and a link to the official BIOS download to this mailing list.
It looks like your BIOS is an AMI bios. Please send privately to me (flashrom@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de) the file created by dd if=/dev/mem bs=64k count=1 skip=15 of=fseg.bin to let me analyze it to find out what code your board needs to enable write access to the flash chip.
Regards, Michael Karcher