i guess my motherboard is
GIGABYTE GA-M59SLI-S4 (rev. 1.0) BIOS F6
i also attached the current bios
reading the bios:
flashrom -r /tmp/old.bios
flashrom v0.9.2-r1001 on Linux 2.6.35-gentoo (x86_64), built with
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.4
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
No coreboot table found.
Found ITE Super I/O, id 8716
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF040B" (512 KB, LPC) at physical address
0xfff80000.
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This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ
ERASE WRITE
The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest
development
version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development
version,
please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org if
any of the above operations
work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the
flashrom
output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested
(-V, -Vr,
-Vw, -VE), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.
Thanks for your help!
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Reading flash... done.
writing the bios:
# flashrom -w
/mnt/storage/download/ga-m59sli-s4/motherboard_bios_ga-m59sli-s4_f5/m59slis4.f5
flashrom v0.9.2-r1001 on Linux 2.6.35-gentoo (x86_64), built with
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.4
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
No coreboot table found.
Found ITE Super I/O, id 8716
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF040B" (512 KB, LPC) at physical address
0xfff80000.
===
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ
ERASE WRITE
The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest
development
version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development
version,
please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org if
any of the above operations
work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the
flashrom
output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested
(-V, -Vr,
-Vw, -VE), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.
Thanks for your help!
===
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at
0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte count from
0x00000000-0x00000fff: 0x736
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte
count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x1e12
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
mail flashrom@flashrom.org!
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thanks
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Dobai-Pataky Balint