FAILED: ASUS P5P800

[Illarion Borisochkin]

Hello! Need Help!

BIOS: ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5P800/P5P80014.zip

flashrom -w P5P80014.ROM
flashrom v0.9.3-r1205 on FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE (i386), built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD], little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH.
Found chip "Winbond W39V040FA" (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 0x00004560! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count from 0x00004000-0x00004fff: 0xa7f
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED at 0x00004560! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xb9df
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED at 0x00004560! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x78040
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] with FAILED: your board name in the subject line!
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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!

[Michael Karcher]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.01.2011, 15:19 +0300 schrieb Illarion Borisochkin:
> Hello! Need Help!
>
> BIOS: ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5P800/P5P80014.zip
>
> flashrom -w P5P80014.ROM
> flashrom v0.9.3-r1205 on FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE (i386), built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD], little endian
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org
>
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH.
> Found chip "Winbond W39V040FA" (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 0x00004560! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count from 0x00004000-0x00004fff: 0xa7f
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED at 0x00004560! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xb9df
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED at 0x00004560! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x78040
> ERASE FAILED!
> FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> FAILED!

It is extremely likely that the problem you are encountering is due to
an additional flash protection mechanism of your board that prevents
erasing and modifying the flash chip contents. Asus employs such a
mechanism on most of their boards, and for your board the mechanism has
not yet been analyzed and a special "board enable" code added to
flashrom.

To make completely sure the BIOS has not been tampered with, you might
want to verify the current contents of your BIOS against the a backup
(if you did one before attempting to flash). You can do that using the
"-v" option of flashrom. It compares the current flash contents with the
contents of a file given at the command line.

Regards,
  Michael Karcher

[Idwer Vollering]

2011/1/13 Illarion Borisochkin
> Hello! Need Help!

Hi, do not despair.
> BIOS: ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5P800/P5P80014.zip
>
> flashrom -w P5P80014.ROM
> flashrom v0.9.3-r1205 on FreeBSD 7.4-PRERELEASE (i386), built with libpci
> 3.1.7, GCC 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD], little endian
> flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

If I still had a 7.4 machine I would compile a patched binary for you,
unfortunately I don't -- 8.1 only).
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH.
> Found chip "Winbond W39V040FA" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address
> 0xfff80000.

Can you checkout current development code, apply and try the applied patch ?
It should enable erasing/writing your chip, Winbond W39V040FA.
The source code can be found here:
http://www.flashrom.org/Downloads#Installation_from_source
You can skip the installation part. Just run flashrom, as root, from its
build directory: "./flashrom"

Commit message:

Add erasing/writing functionality to Winbond W39V040FA and Winbond
W39V040FC, rename unlock_w39v040fb() to unlock_w39v040fa_fb_fc().
Marked the W39V040FA as untested: TEST_OK_PR
Not yet tested (on hardware) for the W39V040FA, untested for the W39V040FC.

Signed-off-by: Idwer Vollering

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When this patch is tested, the erase/write status for the W39V040FA requires
updating.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00004560!
> Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count from 0x00004000-0x00004fff:
> 0xa7f
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED at 0x00004560! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count
> from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xb9df
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED at 0x00004560! Expected=0xff, Read=0x4c, failed byte count
> from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x78040
> 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] with FAILED: your board name in the subject
> line!
>
> DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
>
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