[flashrom] erase failed: ASUS A8AE-LE

[Kris King]

Thank you for helping, even if there is no fix, or my mobo dies waiting.
This is exactly why I joined the linux community. Incase this is helpful
this is the failure in progress...
falserunes at TITANIUM:~$ cd bios
falserunes at TITANIUM:~/bios$ sudo flashrom -w 315.rom
[sudo] password for falserunes:
flashrom v0.9.3-r1291 on Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (x86_64), built with libpci
3.1.7, GCC 4.4.5, little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... delay loop is unreliable, trying to continue OK.
Found chipset "ATI SB400", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Found chip "PMC Pm49FL004" (512 KB, LPC,FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Erasing and writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff,
Read=0x25, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff: 0xfed
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x25, failed byte count from
0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xfee8
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x25, failed byte count from
0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x590c1
ERASE FAILED!
Done.
Verifying flash... VERIFY FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0x24, Read=0x25,
failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x51472
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
mail flashrom at flashrom.org with FAILED: your board name in the subject line!
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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
falserunes at TITANIUM:~/bios$
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