Board ASUS M2V-MX_SE: No EEPROM/flash device found when running flashrom in Windows XP

[Fengwei Zhang]

All,

I am trying to flash Coreboot BIOS in Windows XP SP3 environment. but I got No EEPROM/flash device found when running flashrom.exe.

I have been successfully flashed BIOS in CentOS environment on the same machine by running ./flashrom -w coreboot.rom.

Does anyone know why I get this error message?

Regards,
Fengwei

Board ASUS M2V-MX_SE: No EEPROM/flash device found when running flashrom in Windows XP

[Bernd Blaauw]

Op 3-7-2012 17:25, Fengwei Zhang schreef:
> All,
>
> I am trying to flash Coreboot BIOS in Windows XP SP3 environment. but I got No EEPROM/flash device found when running flashrom.exe.
>
> I have been successfully flashed BIOS in CentOS environment on the same machine by running ./flashrom -w coreboot.rom.
>
> Does anyone know why I get this error message?

I'm no expert on this, but I suppose:
1) it's required to run as administrator (rightclick the shortcut to CMD 
("command prompt") and select to Run As Administrator.
2) it's nowadays required to specify which programmer you want to use 
when executing flashrom program:

something like:
flashrom -p internal -r savebios.bin

likewise also when only reading (instead of dumping/saving), writing and 
erasing.

Bernd

[coreboot] Board ASUS M2V-MX_SE: No EEPROM/flash device found when running flashrom in Windows XP

[Peter Stuge]

Hi Fengwei,

Fengwei Zhang wrote:
> I am trying to flash Coreboot BIOS in Windows XP SP3 environment.
> but I got No EEPROM/flash device found when running flashrom.exe.

I believe flashrom may only support external flashers when running on
Windows. This is because it is much more difficult to access the
on-board flash chip in Windows than in Linux.
> I have been successfully flashed BIOS in CentOS environment on the
> same machine by running ./flashrom -w coreboot.rom.

Maybe you can boot a Linux live-CD, or use that CentOS environment,
to flash again?

Kind regards

//Peter