[flashrom] bad flash ?

Benjamin BELLEC b.bellec at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 19:33:15 CEST 2009


Hello,
I have tried to flash the BIOS of my motherboard. It's a Gigabyte 
G33M-DS2R (ICH9R + SST SST25VF080B" (1024 KB)).

[root at scarabee benjamin]# flashrom --version
flashrom v0.9.0

(on Fedora 11 x86_64)

Here is the log of the flash (my motherboard was previously in version F7) :

flashrom --write ./G33MDS2R.F8
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH9R", enabling flash write... OK.
Found chip "SST SST25VF080B" (1024 KB) at physical address 0xfff00000.
===
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: READ ERASE WRITE
Please email a report to flashrom at coreboot.org if any of the above 
operations
work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the full output
from the program, including chipset found. Thank you for your help!
===
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Programming page:

[root at scarabee motherboard_bios_ga-g33m-ds2r_f8]#


and I check the BIOS :

[root at scarabee motherboard_bios_ga-g33m-ds2r_f8]# flashrom --verify 
./G33MDS2R.F8
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH9R", enabling flash write... OK.
Found chip "SST SST25VF080B" (1024 KB) at physical address 0xfff00000.
===
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: READ ERASE WRITE
Please email a report to flashrom at coreboot.org if any of the above 
operations
work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the full output
from the program, including chipset found. Thank you for your help!
===
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Verifying flash... FAILED at 0x00000000!  Expected=0x00, Read=0x01
[root at scarabee motherboard_bios_ga-g33m-ds2r_f8]#


and when I try to erase it :

[root at scarabee benjamin]# flashrom --erase
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH9R", enabling flash write... OK.
Found chip "SST SST25VF080B" (1024 KB) at physical address 0xfff00000.
===
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: READ ERASE WRITE
Please email a report to flashrom at coreboot.org if any of the above 
operations
work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the full output
from the program, including chipset found. Thank you for your help!
===
Erasing flash chip... FAILED!
ERROR at 0x00000000: Expected=0xff, Read=0x01
[root at scarabee benjamin]#

I can post the entire log (--write --verbose) if you want.

What can I do, is my BIOS really write or not ? Can I reboot ?

Thanks for your time.

Benjamin (from France)




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