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Hello,<BR>
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I received the following while trying to use flashrom to install an updated bios.<BR>
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. I have an ASUS M2NBP-VM CSM motherboard.<BR>
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desktop2@Desktop2:~/Downloads$ sudo flashrom -w 1101.BIN<BR>
flashrom v0.9.1-r946<BR>
No coreboot table found.<BR>
Found ITE Super I/O, id 8716<BR>
Found chipset "NVIDIA MCP51", enabling flash write... OK.<BR>
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.<BR>
Disabling flash write protection for board "ASUS M2NBP-VM CSM"... OK.<BR>
Calibrating delay loop... OK.<BR>
Found chip "SST SST49LF040B" (512 KB, LPC) at physical address 0xfff80000.<BR>
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This flash part has status UNTESTED for operations: PROBE READ ERASE WRITE<BR>
Please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org 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, -rV,<BR>
-wV, -EV), and mention which mainboard or programmer you tested.<BR>
Thanks for your help!<BR>
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Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.<BR>
Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x21, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x00000fff: 0xfef<BR>
ERASE FAILED!<BR>
ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x21, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xff16<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 HREF="mailto:flashrom@flashrom.org">flashrom@flashrom.org</A>!<BR>
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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!<BR>
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What should I do now?<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
~Dan
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