Bios flash failed

[Alexandru Dabija]

Hello,

I tried to flash the bios of an ASUS P5LD2-VM motherboard and it failed.

The output:
flashrom v0.9.1-r706
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00002ee8! Expected=0xff, Read=0x50,
failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xd032
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE 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]
------------------------------------------------------------
DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!

I've used this bios P5LD2-VM-ASUS-1303.ROM.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks,
Alexandru Dabija

[Alexandru Dabija]

Before flashing the bios I've done a backup.

Than I verified the bios and I got the following output:
flashrom v0.9.1-r706
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.

Is it ok to restart my system?

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Alexandru Dabija wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to flash the bios of an ASUS P5LD2-VM motherboard and it failed.
>
> The output:
> flashrom v0.9.1-r706
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address
> 0xfff80000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00002ee8! Expected=0xff, Read=0x50,
> failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xd032
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE 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]
>
> DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
>
> I've used this bios P5LD2-VM-ASUS-1303.ROM.
>
> Can anybody help me?
>
> Thanks,
> Alexandru Dabija

[Benjamin BELLEC]

It's more useful if you paste also the command which produces this 
output  ;-)

Le 27/02/2010 11:54, Alexandru Dabija a écrit :
> Before flashing the bios I've done a backup.
>
> Than I verified the bios and I got the following output:
> flashrom v0.9.1-r706
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 
> 0xfff80000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.
>
> Is it ok to restart my system?
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Alexandru Dabija 
> <[e-mail] > wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to flash the bios of an ASUS P5LD2-VM motherboard and it
> failed.
>
> The output:
> flashrom v0.9.1-r706
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address
> 0xfff80000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00002ee8! Expected=0xff,
> Read=0x50, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xd032
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> FAILED!
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net>
> channel #flashrom or
> mail [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
>
> I've used this bios P5LD2-VM-ASUS-1303.ROM.
>
> Can anybody help me?
>
> Thanks,
> Alexandru Dabija
>
>
>
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[Michael Karcher]

Am Samstag, den 27.02.2010, 12:54 +0200 schrieb Alexandru Dabija:
> Before flashing the bios I've done a backup.
> Than I verified the bios and I got the following output:

[...]
> Verifying flash... VERIFIED.    
> Is it ok to restart my system?

Yes. The flash ROM in your system is protected in a mainboard-specific
manner. To add support to flashrom for your mainboard, please provide
the output of
a) flashrom -V from current svn flashrom (http://flashrom.org/Downloads
contains install instructions)
b) lspci -nnvvvxxx
c) superiotool -deV (http://www.coreboot.org/Superiotool#Installation
contains install instructions)
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Regards,
  Michael Karcher