FS Esprimo E5730: reading rom does not seem to work if BIOS write protection is enabled

[Elmar Stellnberger]

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

flashrom v0.9.7-r1711 on Linux 3.14.50-std460-amd64 (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

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.
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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 [e-mail] 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.

More information can be found in the attachements.

[Elmar Stellnberger]

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.

[Stefan Tauner]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:27:10 +0200
Elmar Stellnberger <[e-mail]> 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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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner