[flashrom] Bios flash failed

Benjamin BELLEC b.bellec at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 13:55:23 CET 2010


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 
> <alex.dabija at gmail.com <mailto:alex.dabija at gmail.com>> 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 flashrom at flashrom.org <mailto:flashrom at flashrom.org>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------
>     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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