[flashrom] please help - urgent - flash chip in unknown state

csh tmp cshtmp at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 06:35:51 CEST 2010


Hello,

First, I want to thank Flashrom developers and maintainers and all the
helpers who help make
this wonderful utility. Please help urgent problem - flashrom erase
failed, flash chip in unknown
state now. PLEASE help - what do I do now ? THANK YOU.

My system:
HP Pavilion a445w, XUbuntu 9.10 Karmic, uname -a gives
Linux 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010
i686 GNU/Linux

Using flashrom v0.9.1-r706, I first earlier saved current BIOS image
to "current_bios_amibios3.19.img"
flashrom v0.9.1-r706
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "Winbond W39V040FA" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
Reading flash... done.

I stupidly made a typo in testing by first trying to re-write current
bios back to the chip,
I typed the following cmd (missed giving the '-' char to -v option)

$ sudo flashrom -w current_bios_amibios3.19.img v current_bios_amibios3.19.img
flashrom v0.9.1-r706
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "Winbond W39V040FA" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x000061f0! Expected=0xff,
Read=0x3c, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x6a379
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
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