[flashrom] Chip unkown state?

[VICKI LUTHER]

Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... DONE BLOCK 0x0
DONE BLOCK 0x10000
DONE BLOCK 0x20000
DONE BLOCK 0x30000
DONE BLOCK 0x40000
DONE BLOCK 0x50000
DONE BLOCK 0x60000
ERASE FAILED at 0x00070000! Expected=0xff, Read=0xaa, failed byte count from 0x00070000-0x0007ffff: 0xff60
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
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hp vectra vl 400 trying to update to latest version bios to version 1.08 form 1.03

i backed up the original bios version1.03 

using this line sudo flashrom -r original.rom

thanks Dan
 		 	   		  
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