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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">i guess my motherboard is
GIGABYTE GA-M59SLI-S4 (rev. 1.0) BIOS F6<br>
i also attached the current bios<br>
<br>
reading the bios:<br>
<br>
flashrom -r /tmp/old.bios<br>
flashrom v0.9.2-r1001 on Linux 2.6.35-gentoo (x86_64), built with
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.4<br>
flashrom is free software, get the source code at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.flashrom.org">http://www.flashrom.org</a><br>
<br>
No coreboot table found.<br>
Found ITE Super I/O, id 8716<br>
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.<br>
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.<br>
Calibrating delay loop... OK.<br>
Found chip "SST SST49LF040B" (512 KB, LPC) at physical address
0xfff80000.<br>
===<br>
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ
ERASE WRITE<br>
The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest
development<br>
version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development
version,<br>
please email a report to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org">flashrom@flashrom.org</a> if
any of the above operations<br>
work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the
flashrom<br>
output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested
(-V, -Vr,<br>
-Vw, -VE), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.<br>
Thanks for your help!<br>
===<br>
Reading flash... done.<br>
<br>
writing the bios:<br>
<br>
# flashrom -w
/mnt/storage/download/ga-m59sli-s4/motherboard_bios_ga-m59sli-s4_f5/m59slis4.f5<br>
flashrom v0.9.2-r1001 on Linux 2.6.35-gentoo (x86_64), built with
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.4.4<br>
flashrom is free software, get the source code at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.flashrom.org">http://www.flashrom.org</a><br>
<br>
No coreboot table found.<br>
Found ITE Super I/O, id 8716<br>
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP55", enabling flash write... OK.<br>
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.<br>
Calibrating delay loop... OK.<br>
Found chip "SST SST49LF040B" (512 KB, LPC) at physical address
0xfff80000.<br>
===<br>
This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ
ERASE WRITE<br>
The test status of this chip may have been updated in the latest
development<br>
version of flashrom. If you are running the latest development
version,<br>
please email a report to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org">flashrom@flashrom.org</a> if
any of the above operations<br>
work correctly for you with this flash part. Please include the
flashrom<br>
output with the additional -V option for all operations you tested
(-V, -Vr,<br>
-Vw, -VE), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.<br>
Thanks for your help!<br>
===<br>
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.<br>
Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at
0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte count from
0x00000000-0x00000fff: 0x736<br>
ERASE FAILED!<br>
ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x49, failed byte
count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x1e12<br>
ERASE FAILED!<br>
FAILED!<br>
ERASE FAILED!<br>
FAILED!<br>
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.<br>
Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or<br>
mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org">flashrom@flashrom.org</a>!<br>
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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!<br>
<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dobai-Pataky Balint</pre>
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