erase failed...

[Stephen Ho]

Hi,

Flashrom failed on my motherboard with following error. Anyway to fix it?

flashrom v0.9.1-r706
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x000064e8! Expected=0xff,
Read=0x50, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x9a7c
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom or
mail [e-mail]
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Thanks for ur help.

Stephen

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:28:05AM +0800, Stephen Ho wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Flashrom failed on my motherboard with following error. Anyway to fix it?
>
> flashrom v0.9.1-r706
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x000064e8! Expected=0xff,
> Read=0x50, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x9a7c
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> FAILED!
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom or
> mail [e-mail]
>
> Thanks for ur help.
>
> Stephen

Please describe what motherboard this is and attach the output from:

lspci -nnvvvxxx
superiotool -deV

I believe this was already described to you in the irc channel.

Luc Verhaegen.