Re: [flashrom] Asus A7NVM400 (A7NX8-VM400)

[Joshua Roys]

On 11/17/2011 11:23 AM, Svante Olofsson wrote:
> I tried to write the backup.rom with flashrom -V -w backup.rom and that
> seemed to work even if the rom was identical to the one already present.
> To me everything looks quite good and I am considering writing the new
> rom that I downloaded. What do you thing? Do you still want me to post
> any more information  with lspci -xxnnvvv, flashrom -V and superiotool
> -deV ?

Yes, please send that information.  The old version of flashrom failed 
because of a write protection that is in place on your system.  As 
Stefan mentioned, newer flashrom versions will not write blocks that 
don't need to be written.  See below:
> Reading old flash chip contents... done.
> Erasing and writing flash chip... Trying erase function 0...
> 0x000000-0x000fff:S, 0x001000-0x001fff:S, 0x002000-0x002fff:S,

[...]
> 0x07e000-0x07efff:S, 0x07f000-0x07ffff:S
> Erase/write done.
> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
> Restoring PCI config space for 00:01:0 reg 0x6d
> Restoring PCI config space for 00:01:0 reg 0x92

The ":S" after the address ranges indicate that flashrom skipped that 
section.

Thanks,

Josh

p.s. please use `lspci -vvvnnxxx' (as root) with 3 x's.  Thanks.

Asus A7NVM400 (A7NX8-VM400)

[Svante Olofsson]

I have attached the information....

I guess that I haven't changed the rom at all if the protection is in place
:) The protection must be lifted programatically right? Nothing can be done
with parameters in the bios setup?

BR,
  --Svante