Flash chip is in an unknown state

[Joao Gabriel Moura de Almeida]

Hi all,

Hope you are doing well. I am having some trouble flashing a W25Q64.V and
was hoping someone could help me. I am using a CH341a with a SOIC8 clip,
and was able to flash that chip beforehand successfully.

The motherboard is an MSI P67a-C43 B3, I am trying to flash to the 1.J
Version which can be downloaded here:
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/p67ac43_b3

I have pasted my logs from running "flashrom --programmer ch341a_spi -w
E7673IMS.1J0 -V" here:

https://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=3305

Let me know if I can provide any more information.

Thank you,

Joao

[Mike Banon]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:33 PM Joao Gabriel Moura de Almeida
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hope you are doing well. I am having some trouble flashing a W25Q64.V and was hoping someone could help me. I am using a CH341a with a SOIC8 clip, and was able to flash that chip beforehand successfully.
>
> The motherboard is an MSI P67a-C43 B3, I am trying to flash to the 1.J Version which can be downloaded here: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/p67ac43_b3
>
> I have pasted my logs from running "flashrom --programmer ch341a_spi -w E7673IMS.1J0 -V" here:
>
> https://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=3305
>
> Let me know if I can provide any more information.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Joao
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What's the length of cables between CH341A and SOIC8 test clip, and
from what material are they made? (copper has ~1.5x less electrical
resistance than aluminium, so more likely to work). Ideally, <=10 cm
of copper wires. If everything else fails, you could try my "gingerly"
patch, however I didn't rebase it on a flashrom master for quite long.
https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/31830