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[Steve Herber]

Hello:

I ran flashrom on an asus P4P800-VM motherboard and got this error:

tux tmp # flashrom -w P4PVM1018.rom
flashrom v0.9.1-r710
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
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 0x00007810! Expected=0xff, 
Read=0x3c, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x8732
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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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Steve,

On 04.05.2010 09:07, Steve Herber wrote:
> I ran flashrom on an asus P4P800-VM motherboard and got this error:
>
> tux tmp # flashrom -w P4PVM1018.rom
> flashrom v0.9.1-r710
> Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK.
> Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address
> 0xfff80000.
> Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00007810! Expected=0xff,
> Read=0x3c, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x8732

Looking at the error message, I'm pretty sure that you can reboot
safely. It seems the erase command had no effect.
Newer flashrom versions support the Asus P4P800-E Deluxe, and it should
be possible to add support for your board as well. Could you please
update to flashrom 0.9.1-r946 (or later) run the following commands as
root and send the output to [e-mail]

lspci -nnvvvxxx
superiotool -deV
flashrom -V

This would help us to find out if flashrom needs to be patched to
support your board.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

asus P4PVM1018 results and debug results

[Steve Herber]

I upgraded my version of flashrom and reran the firmware upgrade
but it failed.  See below.  I was asked to send the results of lspci,
superiotool, and flashrom.  They are attached.

Thanks,

Steve Herber

shrom-0.9.1-r996 # ./flashrom -w ~/P4PVM1018.rom 
flashrom v0.9.1-r996 on Linux 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 (i686), built with
libpci 3.1.4, GCC 4.3.4
No coreboot table found.
sh: dmidecode: command not found
Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
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... Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00007810!
Expected=0xff, Read=0x3c, failed byte count from 0x00007000-0x00007fff:
0x7d7
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED at 0x00007810! Expected=0xff, Read=0x3c, failed byte count
from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x8732
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 [e-mail]!
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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!

asus P4PVM1018 results and debug results

[Michael Karcher]

Am Mittwoch, den 05.05.2010, 16:09 -0700 schrieb Steve Herber:
> I upgraded my version of flashrom and reran the firmware upgrade
> but it failed.  See below.  I was asked to send the results of lspci,
> superiotool, and flashrom.  They are attached.

Thanks for your input. I currently don't have the time to write up a
patch for flashrom, but the needed enable function is
intel_ich_gpio21_raise. Together with the lspci output, I hope someone
is able to write up that patch quite quickly.

Regards,
  Michael Karcher