Hi Andrea,
don't worry, we can help you recover.
It looks like your chip may have ignored the erase command.
Can you please tell us the exact mainboard name and also send the output of lspci -nnvvvxxx (as root) to this list? Simply hit "reply all" in your mail program.
On 06.10.2009 19:21, Andrea Cucchi wrote:
Here it is what happened
andrea@andrea-desktop:~/Scrivania$ sudo flashrom -w W7046IM7.21C flashrom v0.9.1-r706 Found chipset "Intel ICH6/ICH6R", enabling flash write... OK. Disabling flash write protection for board "MSI MS-7046"... OK. Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chip "Winbond W39V040FA" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000!
Failed at 0x00000000 is usually a good sign.
Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x53e8d ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED! FAILED! Your flash chip is in an unknown state. Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom
Can you join us in IRC? You can use http://webchat.freenode.net/ if you don't have a IRC chat program. That way, we can directly diagnose this with you.
I can see only now that I did not write the "v" on the command line, dammit, please help needed.
Did you backup the old image with "flashrom -r" first? If yes, you're probably very lucky.
Thank you very much for your atenction in advance.
I'm confident we can fix this.
Regards, Carl-Daniel