[flashrom] FAILED: xw9400

[Alan Latteri]

I forgot to jumper the bootblock.  I did flashrom -w newbios.  It spit up a
bunch of fails and warnings.  See the attached screenshots.  What should I
do?  Should I power off, jumper and try again?

Thanks,
Alan

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# flashrom -w xw9400_BIOS.rom
flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1515 on Linux 3.2.19-std280-i586 (i686), built with libpci 3.1.9, GCC 4.4.7, little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55". Enabling flash write... OK.
Disabling flash write protection for board "HP xw9400"... OK.
Found SST flash chip "SST49LF080A" (1024 kB, LPC) at physical address 0xfff00000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks.
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Erasing and writing glash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x000f0000! Expected=x0ff, Read=0xe9, failed byte count from 0x000f0000-0x000f0fff: 0xf56
ERASE FAILED!
Reading current flash chip contents... done. ERASE FAILED at 0x000f0000! Expected=x0ff, Read=0xe9, failed byte count from 0x000f0000-0x000fffff: 0xe2e4
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Uh oh. Erase/Write failed. Checking if anything changed.
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!