Your Flash Chip is in an Unknown State

[Shane Lirrie Concon]

Hi Flashrom Team,

Please help me with my bios chip. I am getting an error when I reprogram my
bios chip using flashrom. I have already tried using different versions of
AsProgrammer and CH341 Mini Programmer but still unable to verify the new
rom. My Chip is an 8 pin and is removable (W25Q64BVAIG).

You may refer to the command below. I hope you can help me.

C:\Users\SKyFlaKes™\Downloads\Compressed\flashrom>flashrom
flashrom v1.2-50-gc19aa5e on Windows 6.2 (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.
No operations were specified.

C:\Users\SKyFlaKes™\Downloads\Compressed\flashrom>flashrom -w
MAXIMUS-IV-GENE-Z-GEN3-ASUS-3603.ROM
flashrom v1.2-50-gc19aa5e on Windows 6.2 (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.V" (8192 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x00180004! Expected=0x00, Found=0x08, failed
byte count from 0x00000000-0x007fffff: 0xf364
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Please report this on IRC at chat.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
mail [e-mail], thanks!

Thank you!

[Nico Huber]

Hi Shane,

On 25.08.21 06:22, Shane Lirrie Concon wrote:
> Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x00180004! Expected=0x00, Found=0x08, failed
> byte count from 0x00000000-0x007fffff: 0xf364

it seems odd. I'd try again and compare the exact error message. If the
failing address and byte count stay exactly the same, it might be a
write-protection that flashrom doesn't know how to disable. If anything
changes between two successive write attempts, it's more likely a hard-
ware failure (more often the programmer/connection to the flash chip
than the chip itself).

Nico

[Shane Lirrie Concon]

Hi Nico,

Thank you for your response. My mobo is now working. I was able to reflash
it successfully using the Flashrom GUI.

Thanks,
Shane

On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 8:19 PM Nico Huber  wrote:
> Hi Shane,
>
> On 25.08.21 06:22, Shane Lirrie Concon wrote:
> > Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x00180004! Expected=0x00, Found=0x08,
>
> failed
> > byte count from 0x00000000-0x007fffff: 0xf364
>
> it seems odd. I'd try again and compare the exact error message. If the
> failing address and byte count stay exactly the same, it might be a
> write-protection that flashrom doesn't know how to disable. If anything
> changes between two successive write attempts, it's more likely a hard-
> ware failure (more often the programmer/connection to the flash chip
> than the chip itself).
>
> Nico