Hello everybody!
I've been unsuccessful in updating by BIOS on my ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard using flashrom. To my novice eyes it looks like the first 768kB has been erased and the rest left as is....
I'll put some information below....
http://paste.debian.net/50883/plain/50883 ===================================================
$ sudo flashrom -w 1805.BIN flashrom v0.9.1-r736 No coreboot table found. Found chipset "NVIDIA CK804", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI. Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00060000! Expected=0xff, Read=0xd4, failed byte count from 0x00060000-0x0006ffff: 0xacde ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED! FAILED! Your flash chip is in an unknown state. Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom or mail flashrom@flashrom.org ------------------------------------------------------------ DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
http://paste.debian.net/50884/plain/50884 ===================================================
$ sudo flashrom -w backup-bios-1002.bin flashrom v0.9.1-r736 No coreboot table found. Found chipset "NVIDIA CK804", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI. Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00060000! Expected=0xff, Read=0xd4, fail ed byte count from 0x00060000-0x0006ffff: 0xacde ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED! FAILED! Your flash chip is in an unknown state. Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom or mail flashrom@flashrom.org ------------------------------------------------------------ DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
http://paste.debian.net/50885/plain/50885 ===================================================
$ sudo flashrom -v backup-bios-1002.bin flashrom v0.9.1-r736 No coreboot table found. Found chipset "NVIDIA CK804", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI. Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Verifying flash... VERIFY FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0x21, Read=0xff, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x3fac2
Quotes from IRC: ===================================================
14:42 < carldani> fatal^: AFAICS erase was partially successful. 14:47 < carldani> fatal^: the first 384k are erased. 14:48 < carldani> fatal^: ok, there are two things we can do. 14:49 < carldani> 1. we unlock the test of the chip and then rewrite in full 14:50 < carldani> 2. We only rewrite the erased part. 14:51 < carldani> fatal^: I'll tell you what we need to fix this. 14:53 < carldani> fatal^: Please send a mail with the exact board name (and board version, if your board exists in multiple versions), output of "lspci -nnvvvxxx" (as root), output of "flashrom -V" (as root), output of "superiotool -dV" (as root), and the output of "flashrom -EV" (as root) to flashrom@flashrom.org 14:54 < carldani> if you subscribe to that list before posting, your mail will be passed through immediately (otherwise it ends up in the moderator queue) 14:55 < carldani> and mention in the mail that erase partially fails.
Requested information: ===================================================
Exact board name: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Versions: "Deluxe" is the "full" version, there are budget versions called "Premium" and maybe even more low-budget versions... lspci -nnvvvxxx: attached as "lspci-nnvvvxxx.txt" flashrom -V: attached as "flashrom-V.txt" superiotool -dV: attached as "superiotool-dV.txt" flashrom -EV: attached as "flashrom-EV.txt"
Other files: ====================================================
Maybe to large to attach, so as long as I don't reboot you should be able to reach my computer at: http://fatal.se/tmp/bios/
"backup-bios-1002.bin" is what I got from "flashrom -r backup-bios-1002.bin" before I did anything else.
"fucked-bios.bin" is what I currently get if I do "flashrom -r fucked-bios.bin"
"1805.BIN" is the new bios I tried to update to.
Thanks for your interest reading this far! :)