That's strange. I have tried rewriting the firmware so I COULD provide you the text file... It froze after couple complaints of 4-byte RDID not found (it just ignored that before), and I tried just "flashrom", same thing. Now that's a can of worm. It was 100% successful - verified and signed. Now I am somewhat confused. I may have to wait for a while (thankfully I still have a Windows laptop so I could write up the report on progresses of the firmware ROM.)

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:57:26 -0600
Donovan Lavinder <drmario2007@gmail.com> wrote:

> After a day of struggling with bricked firmwares.... I finally ditched
> FreeDOS. I went with SystemRescueCd distro and burnt coreboot precompiled
> firmware under the folder /gigabyte_ma78gm/ and the firmware WORKED! But now
> I am stuck with funny firmware quirks (Windows XP crashing when booting
> halfway, almost to the point the video card driver is loaded, right after
> "GIVEIO.SYS" driver is being loaded), even though it loaded Linux CD fine. I
> guess I should try and ditch PS/2 mouse as it may probably be the cause of
> strange behavior - I will be using USB mouse / keyboard as well. I am happy
> with this firmware otherwise. And, the backup BIOS didn't even try to
> intercept the Linux kernel in the firmware from loading. Thankfully. I will
> eventually decide to recompile or "submit" the additional payloads such as
> EFI and memtest86+ as those software will be needed in the future, after I
> learn more of its capabilities.
>
> And, thanks for such a wonderful firmware! That thing's so fast!
>

congratulations :)
this mail probably should have been sent to coreboot@coreboot.org
though (too).
btw could you provide a log of a successful flashrom write please?

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