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Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.<br>Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... DONE BLOCK 0x0<br>DONE BLOCK 0x10000<br>DONE BLOCK 0x20000<br>DONE BLOCK 0x30000<br>DONE BLOCK 0x40000<br>DONE BLOCK 0x50000<br>DONE BLOCK 0x60000<br>ERASE FAILED at 0x00070000! Expected=0xff, Read=0xaa, failed byte count from 0x00070000-0x0007ffff: 0xff60<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 flashrom@flashrom.org!<br><br>hp vectra vl 400 trying to update to latest version bios to version 1.08 form 1.03<br><br>i backed up the original bios version1.03 <br><br>using this line sudo flashrom -r original.rom<br><br>thanks Dan<br> </body>
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