<html><body><div>...so I just add<br></div><div><br></div><div>-p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick<br></div><div><br></div><div>...after the normal command to install the new bios?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Just out of interest, how does the program find the new BIOS file (.ROM)?<br></div><div>It is currently on my desk top. Please, do I need to specify the file path, and if so please can you give me an example of this?<br></div><div><pre style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px" _mce_style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Chris Hudson BA(Hons.)
</pre></div><div><br>On 21 Oct, 2011,at 12:57 PM, Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:<br><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch">On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:39:47 +0100<br>
Chris <<a href="mailto:mindzeebeez@me.com" _mce_href="mailto:mindzeebeez@me.com">mindzeebeez@me.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> By the way I have contacted ASUS about the problem, but no answer.<br>
> I would be only too willing to make a donation to the project if we can <br>
> get this sorted out!<br>
<br>
hello!<br>
<br>
i am not sure why, but we have not received your first mail. we had<br>
some maintenance yesterday so...<br>
<br>
> -------- Original Message --------<br>
> Subject: error message: flashrom<br>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:34:52 +0100<br>
> From: Chris <<a href="mailto:mindzeebeez@me.com" _mce_href="mailto:mindzeebeez@me.com">mindzeebeez@me.com</a>><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org" _mce_href="mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org">flashrom@flashrom.org</a><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Hi,<br>
> Please help me, I get the message below when I try and flash the bios<br>
> with flashrom.<br>
> <br>
> I have the new ROM file on my desktop waiting to install. It may have a<br>
> compatibility issue because although it is the correct one, it is for<br>
> motherboard ASUS P5L-VM-1394 and I have the P5L-VM-1394 (V-P5945G).<br>
> Which is why the built in system BIOS updater wouldn't work.<br>
<br>
this reads a bit like this<br>
<a href="http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20090425024409002&board_id=1&model=P5L-VM+1394&page=1&SLanguage=en-us" _mce_href="http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20090425024409002&board_id=1&model=P5L-VM+1394&page=1&SLanguage=en-us">http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20090425024409002&board_id=1&model=P5L-VM+1394&page=1&SLanguage=en-us</a><br>
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maybe this is just an error in the flash programs or the image... i<br>
cant find a barebone pc with the name V-P5945G... did the mainboard<br>
come with a barebone pc from asus like this one<br>
<a href="http://www.asus.com/Barebone_PC/V_Series_2530L/V2P5945G/" _mce_href="http://www.asus.com/Barebone_PC/V_Series_2530L/V2P5945G/">http://www.asus.com/Barebone_PC/V_Series_2530L/V2P5945G/</a><br>
or did you buy the board alone?<br>
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> I also tried AFUDOS (didn't have motherboard DVD) and the proprietory<br>
> ASUS updater ((which runs in Windows partition)- same problem re: new<br>
> BIOS "compatibility").<br>
> <br>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance!<br>
<br>
you did not mention which version of flashrom you were using, please<br>
provide the full verbose log (flashrom -V).<br>
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> <br>
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.<br>
> ========================================================================<br>
> WARNING! You may be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. We could<br>
> not detect this for sure because your vendor has not setup the SMBIOS<br>
> tables correctly. You can enforce execution by adding<br>
> '-p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick' to the command line, but<br>
> please read the following warning if you are not sure.<br>
> <br>
> Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we<br>
> recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller<br>
> (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.<br>
> See <a href="http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops" _mce_href="http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops">http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops</a> for details.<br>
> <br>
> If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop<br>
> and write may brick your laptop.<br>
> Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight<br>
> failure and sudden poweroff.<br>
> You have been warned.<br>
> ========================================================================<br>
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obviously you are not using a laptop here, so there is no problem. just<br>
use the additional parameter as described above please.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner<br>
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