Re: [flashrom] HP AAHD3-H8 Motherboard flashing with Uno

[Stefan Tauner]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:30:11 -0500
Elvis Kit  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am getting this error message when i attempt to re-flash the bricked bios
> of this motherboard.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> e6410 Test # flashrom -p serprog:dev=/dev/ttyACM0:2000000 -w HIB_716.ROM
> flashrom v0.9.7-r1764 on Linux 3.2.0-4-486 (i686)
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> serprog: Programmer name is "serprog-duino"
> Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q16.V" (2048 kB, SPI) on serprog.
> Reading old flash chip contents... done.
> Erasing and writing flash chip... FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff,
> Found=0x00, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff: 0x1000
> ERASE FAILED!
> Reading current flash chip contents... done. FAILED at 0x00000000!
> Expected=0xff, Found=0x00, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00007fff:
> 0x8000
> ERASE FAILED!
> Reading current flash chip contents... Error: invalid response 0x00 from
> device
> Can't read anymore! Aborting.
> FAILED!
> Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything changed.
> Error: invalid response 0x00 from device
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Please report this on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
> mail [e-mail], thanks!
>
> Thanks in advance!

Probably bad wiring. It is also important to connect *all* (input) pins
of the flash chip.