Flash failed on ASUS P4C-800E Deluxe

[Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi,

I was just trying to flash the BIOS (version 1023) into an old ASUS
P4C-800E Deluxe on ArchLinux (current updates as of 13-11-2009) and
the latest version of flashrom from SVN. I get the following error:

[root@bart flashrom]# flashrom -w
Display all 101 possibilities? (y or n)
[root@bart flashrom]# flashrom w P4CED23.ROM
-bash: flashrom: command not found
[root@bart flashrom]# ./flashrom -w P4CED23.ROM
flashrom v0.9.1-r756
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
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 0x000038d0! Expected=0xff,
Read=0x44, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xc648
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
[root@bart flashrom]#

Any hints?

Adrian