Today I have tried to read the BIOS image of my Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo E5730. flashrom has complained about the write protection as being set in force manually by the BIOS settings although I have just tried to read an image:
flashrom -p internal:ich_spi_mode=auto --read test.rom
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Calibrating delay loop... OK. Found chipset "Intel ICH10D". Enabling flash write... FREG0: Warning: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-only. FREG2: Warning: Management Engine region (0x00003000-0x002f7fff) is locked. Not all flash regions are freely accessible by flashrom. This is most likely due to an active ME. Please see http://flashrom.org/ME for details. Writes have been disabled for safety reasons. You can enforce write support with the ich_spi_force programmer option, but you will most likely harm your hardware! If you force flashrom you will get no support if something breaks. On a few mainboards it is possible to enable write access by setting a jumper (see its documentation or the board itself). OK. Found Winbond flash chip "W25X32" (4096 kB, SPI) at physical address 0xffc00000. === This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: 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, -VE, -Vw), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested. Please mention your board in the subject line. Thanks for your help! Reading flash... Transaction error! Read operation failed! FAILED.
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No, enabling write for the board in the BIOS settings as well as trying some different ich_spi modes (hwseq, swseq, force) did not help either.
Is there anything else I could do or try with this board?
On 15.09.2015 13:28, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
Today I have tried to read the BIOS image of my Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo E5730. flashrom has complained about the write protection as being set in force manually by the BIOS settings although I have just tried to read an image:
flashrom -p internal:ich_spi_mode=auto --read test.rom
... FAILED.
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:27:10 +0200 Elmar Stellnberger estellnb@elstel.org wrote:
Is there anything else I could do or try with this board?
No. You have to use an external programmer to write to it if need be.
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