Failure on 7252 MSI K9NBPM2-FID motherboard - flashrom

8 Dec 2012


      Hello - thanks for the great effort on flashrom.
My particular board doesn't flash. Here are the particulars. Ubuntu 12.04, if that matters.
0.9.6.1 failed too...
gordy@macoushla:~/Downloads/7252v58$ sudo flashromflashrom v0.9.5.2-r1517 on Linux 3.2.0-34-generic-pae (i686), built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endianflashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... OK.Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP51". Enabling flash write... OK.Found Winbond flash chip "W39V040B" (512 kB, LPC) at physical address 0xfff80000.Found Winbond flash chip "W39V040FB" (512 kB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.Multiple flash chips were detected: "W39V040B", "W39V040FB"Please specify which chip to use with the -c <chipname> option.gordy@macoushla:~/Downloads/7252v58$ sudo flashrom -w A7252NMS.580 -c W39V040Bflashrom v0.9.5.2-r1517 on Linux 3.2.0-34-generic-pae (i686), built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endianflashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... OK.Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP51". Enabling flash write... OK.Found Winbond flash chip "W39V040B" (512 kB, LPC) at physical address 0xfff80000.Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks.Reading old flash chip contents... done.Erasing and writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x0000ad80! Expected=0xff, Read=0x44, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x5200ERASE FAILED!Reading current flash chip contents... done. ERASE FAILED at 0x0000ad80! Expected=0xff, Read=0x44, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x657a4ERASE FAILED!FAILED!Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything changed.Good. It seems nothing was changed.Writing to the flash chip apparently didn't do anything.This means we have to add special support for your board, programmer or flash chip.Please report this on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) ormail
 flashrom@flashrom.org!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------You may now reboot or simply leave the machine running.gordy@macoushla:~/Downloads/7252v58$ sudo flashrom -w A7252NMS.580 -c W39V040FBflashrom v0.9.5.2-r1517 on Linux 3.2.0-34-generic-pae (i686), built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endianflashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
Calibrating delay loop... OK.Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP51". Enabling flash write... OK.Found Winbond flash chip "W39V040FB" (512 kB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks.Reading old flash chip contents... done.Erasing and writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x0000ad80! Expected=0xff, Read=0x44, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x5200ERASE FAILED!Reading current flash chip contents... done. ERASE FAILED at 0x0000ad80! Expected=0xff, Read=0x44, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x657a4ERASE FAILED!FAILED!Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything changed.Good. It seems nothing was changed.Writing to the flash chip apparently didn't do anything.This means we have to add special support for your board, programmer or flash chip.Please report this on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) ormail
 flashrom@flashrom.org!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------You may now reboot or simply leave the machine running.gordy@macoushla:~/Downloads/7252v58$