[flashrom] failed flash

Rolan Christofferson rolanchristofferson at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 07:01:46 CEST 2010


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I tried to use flashrom to flash a GA-7N400-L nForce2, but it failed.
What's a route back to sanity?

Here is the report from flashrom:

flashrom v0.9.1-r946
No coreboot table found.
Found ITE Super I/O, id 8712
Found chipset "NVIDIA NForce2", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "PMC Pm49FL002" (256 KB, LPC,FWH) at physical address 0xfffc0000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Verifying flash... VERIFY FAILED at 0x00037e0c! Expected=0x14, Read=0x0c,
failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0003ffff: 0x15

Dumb me.  I should have read the current flash before writing.

I tried running it a 2nd time:

No coreboot table found.
Found ITE Super I/O, id 8712
Found chipset "NVIDIA NForce2", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "PMC Pm49FL002" (256 KB, LPC,FWH) at physical address 0xfffc0000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000!
Expected=0xff, Read=0x23, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff:
0xff4
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x23, failed byte count from
0x00000000-0x00003fff: 0x3fc8
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x23, failed byte count from
0x00000000-0x0003ffff: 0x3b602
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
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The file I used to set the bios was from an @bios dump of another computer,
same motherboard and chipset.

Any help you can offer?
Thanks.

Rolan
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