[flashrom] Big problem after flash of SST SST25VF016B on HP Compaq 615

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi

On 09.01.2010 20:33, Parallix wrote:
> Somewhat strage: After flashing the old bios with the suggested patch I got
> the following error output:
>
> flashrom v0.9.1-r845
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "AMD SB700/SB710/SB750", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: LPC,FWH,SPI.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "SST SST25VF016B" (2048 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xffe00000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... Erasing flash before programming... done.
>   

Hm. Since the erase command was disabled, this "success" is expected.

> COMPLETE.
> Verifying flash... VERIFY FAILED at 0x00010058! Expected=0x15, Read=0x05, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x001fffff: 0x12d075
>
> A verification by reading the BIOS (via flashrom -r <file>) and comparing it with
> the original bios (via diff) shows the same difference.
>   

This is very odd. Can you try flashing the backup BIOS with unmodified
latest flashrom, then read back the result?

Please mail me personally at <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> the
following files (preferably bz2 compressed):
- original backup
- readback image after flashing with unmodified latest flashrom

I will take a look.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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