By the way I have contacted ASUS about the problem, but no answer. I would be only too willing to make a donation to the project if we can get this sorted out!
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: error message: flashrom Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:34:52 +0100 From: Chris mindzeebeez@me.com To: flashrom@flashrom.org
Hi, Please help me, I get the message below when I try and flash the bios with flashrom.
I have the new ROM file on my desktop waiting to install. It may have a compatibility issue because although it is the correct one, it is for motherboard ASUS P5L-VM-1394 and I have the P5L-VM-1394 (V-P5945G). Which is why the built in system BIOS updater wouldn't work.
I also tried AFUDOS (didn't have motherboard DVD) and the proprietory ASUS updater ((which runs in Windows partition)- same problem re: new BIOS "compatibility").
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
Chris Hudson
Calibrating delay loop... OK. ======================================================================== WARNING! You may be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. We could not detect this for sure because your vendor has not setup the SMBIOS tables correctly. You can enforce execution by adding '-p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick' to the command line, but please read the following warning if you are not sure.
Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing. See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.
If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop and write may brick your laptop. Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight failure and sudden poweroff. You have been warned. ========================================================================