[flashrom] Something went terribly wrong...

Andrea Cucchi andreacucchi84 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 19:21:01 CEST 2009


Here it is what happened

andrea at andrea-desktop:~/Scrivania$ sudo flashrom -w W7046IM7.21C
flashrom v0.9.1-r706
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH6/ICH6R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Disabling flash write protection for board "MSI MS-7046"... OK.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "Winbond W39V040FA" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff,
Read=0x49, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x53e8d
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!

I can see only now that I did not write the "v" on the command line,
dammit, please help needed.

Thank you very much for your atenction in advance.




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