[flashrom] Flash chip in unknown state - erase failed

[Dan Kern Photo]

Hi Stefan!
Thanks for the fast reply! And the comforting words (although panic is
for noobs, yes?) :-)

I updated flashrom as you suggested and ran it again. Thanks for that. 
I think it worked fine. Here's the output:


        desktop2 at Desktop2:~/Downloads$ sudo flashrom -w 1101.BIN
        flashrom v0.9.5.2-runknown on Linux 2.6.32-40-generic-pae
        (i686), built with libpci 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.3, little endian
        flashrom is free software, get the source code at
        http://www.flashrom.org
        
        Calibrating delay loop... OK.
        Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP51". Enabling flash write... OK.
        Disabling flash write protection for board "ASUS M2NBP-VM
        CSM"... OK.
        Found SST flash chip "SST49LF040B" (512 kB, LPC) at physical
        address 0xfff80000.
        Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling
        coreboot-related checks.
        Reading old flash chip contents... done.
        Erasing and writing flash chip... Erase/write done.
        Verifying flash... VERIFIED.          
        desktop2 at Desktop2:~/Downloads$


What say you, doctor?
Thanks again.

~Dan


On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 23:03 +0200, Stefan Tauner wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:59:00 -0600
> Dan Kern Photo <dankernphoto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I received the following while trying to use flashrom to install an
> > updated bios.
> > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. I have an ASUS M2NBP-VM CSM motherboard.
> > 
> > 
> >         desktop2 at Desktop2:~/Downloads$ sudo flashrom -w 1101.BIN
> >         flashrom v0.9.1-r946
> > […]
> > 
> > What should I do now?
> 
> hello dan!
> 
> the most important thing is to not panic.
> dont reboot or shut down until you are sure everything is ok.
> 
> if you have a backup of the original contents of the chip (made with
> flashrom -r …), you can verify that nothing has changed (which is quite
> probable) with flashrom -v <backup.file>.
> 
> you are using a very old version of flashrom, so please get a newer
> version either by downloading the source and compiling it
> manually (see http://flashrom.org/Downloads)
> or by installing a package from
> https://launchpad.net/~flashrom-developers/+archive/flashrom-daily.
> your board should work out of the box with the current version.
> 
> if you still have problems it would be best if you would visit us on IRC
> so that we can interact faster with each other. there is a webchat available here:
> http://webchat.freenode.net/
> we lurk in the chat room #flashrom.
> 


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