[flashrom] FAILED: NVIDIA MCP61

William Speirs wspeirs at apache.org
Wed Jul 18 23:12:14 CEST 2012


So if restoring the backup ROM worked am I safe to power cycle my machine?

Any ideas on what would be wrong with that ROM?

Thanks...

Bill-
On Jul 17, 2012 8:49 PM, "William Speirs" <wspeirs at apache.org> wrote:

> I was able to write the backup and run verify and it worked. I still
> haven't and won't restart my machine.
>
> After restoring the backup, I tried again with the new BIOS and got the
> same error/issue. I was able to backup yet again without issue.
>
> So I'm guessing it's more of a problem with the ROM image than the program
> writing the ROM. I've attached the ROM to see if that provides any insight.
>
> Thanks again for the help!
>
> Bill-
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:22 PM, William Speirs <wspeirs at apache.org>wrote:
>
>> I will try writing the backup and certainly leave the machine on.
>>
>> Thanks, and get some sleep ;-)
>>
>> Bill-
>> On Jul 17, 2012 8:20 PM, "Stefan Tauner" <
>> stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:39:31 -0400
>>> William Speirs <wspeirs at apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I tried a flashrom -r and compared it to the backup I made and it's
>>> > different. It is also different from the ROM I tried to install.
>>> >
>>> > Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> Most importantly: dont reboot or shutdown that computer. (we really
>>> mean it... but some users do it anyway, and brick their boards that
>>> way)
>>>
>>> i would try writing the backup image again to get to a safe state
>>> again. the reason why it failed in the first place is not obvious to
>>> me, but it is 2:00 AM here, so i might be overlooking something.
>>> --
>>> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
>>>
>>
>
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