Hi, as the topic reflects flashrom 0.9.6.1+r1563-1 was unable to flash my Gigabyte Z87m-d3h.
Much thanks goes to Carldani on IRC for helping me get my board back to a bootable state.
It would be great if the upcoming LTS of Ubuntu, Trusty 14.04 can be upgraded since these boards are common and should be supported out of the box.
A great IRC community and my thanks go out to you all for the work that goes in to maintaining and updating Flashrom.
For me, being blind and using text to speech I use this tool, I also recommend Flashrom to vinuxproject.org users that are also blind and want an accessible method to flash their chips.
Thank you
Kind regards Rob Whyte http://www.launchpad.net/~fudge