Hi Simone,
forwarding your message as it has been filtered due to the attachment. The mailing list has a limit of 200KiB.
This is the most interesting line out of the picture:
Warning: BIOS region SMM protection is enabled!
Well, this is unfortunate. You may not be completely out of luck, though. Sometimes the BIOS setup provides options to toggle flash protection. And sometimes a simple trick helps to get around it: suspend (to RAM) and resume before you try to flash. Some BIOSes simply forget to enables the protection during resume.
If you removed the SPI flash from the board anyway, you can also use very simple / cheap SPI programmers without the need of hot swapping. Many SBCs (Raspberry Pi and the like) can serve as programmer, for instance. Or, if you have an old PC with a legacy parallel port, that can be hooked up to a SPI flash with a few resistors.
Let us know if you need more infos.
Nico
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: ADVANTECH ASMB-825 SMM BIOS protection Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:14:37 +0200 From: Simone Arinci simone.arinci@gmail.com To: flashrom@flashrom.org
Good morning, see attached screenshot for the motherboard ASMB-825. I tried flashrom as I have a bricked motherboard and a good one, and tried to revive the bad one with the SPI flash hot swap trick, but no success. Tried flashrom, AFUEFI, AFUDOS, Intel FPT...but none of these are able to reprogram the damaged flash chip... I'm going to send it to the manufacturer to have it repaired.
Thanks for your help, have a nice day. Simone
[image: ADVANTECH ASMB-825.png]