Hi,
Today I was trying Coreboot, but I made some mistake and bricked my Asus A8NE-FM board. Fortunately I had another board P5PE-VM with similar ROM chip. I booted it and then replaced the ROMs and wanted to flash the A8NE-FM's one with the original BIOS. But I get an error:
Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI. Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chip "PMC Pm49FL004" (512 KB, LPC,FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Writing flash chip... Programming page: ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xfed3 ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED! FAILED! Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
I checked if there is any write protection in BIOS settings and didn't find any. But people at IRC chanell, especially twice11, helped me. After some diagnostics he send me a patch which adds writing capability for P5PE-VM boards. So I was able to flash the ROM and put it back to the A8NE-FM.
Thanks a lot for that! I think, free software has much better support and works more effectively – if it were an commercial closed source product, It would take several days or weeks and may be never be supported... So thank for your work :-)
Best Regards, František Kučera