Tried the neat flashrom tool on my machine. Probe and read works. Output included below. /david
debian2:~/flashrom# flashrom -r backup-bios.bin Calibrating delay loop... OK. No coreboot table found. WARNING: No chipset found. Flash detection will most likely fail. Found chip "SST SST49LF040" (512 KB) at physical address 0xfff80000. === This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE Please email a report to flashrom@coreboot.org if any of the above operations work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the full output from the program, including chipset found. Thank you for your help! === Reading Flash...done debian2:~/flashrom# ls -l totalt 516 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 524288 4 apr 10.30 backup-bios.bin