<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Hi, i get the following error below when trying to read a bios chip, what options do i have for troubleshooting and what's causing the problem? Thanks Nabs</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">"flashrom -f -Vr bios.img.bin -p buspirate_spi:dev=/dev/tty8,spispeed=1M"</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">flashrom
v0.9.5.2-r1517 on Linux 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), built with libpci 3.1.8, GCC 4.6.3, little endian</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 1372M loops per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 113 us, 1000 myus = 1036 us, 10000 myus = 10346 us, 4 myus = 6 us, OK.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Initializing buspirate_spi programmer</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">SPI speed is 1MHz</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">^[[BEntering raw bitbang mode
failed!</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Got 1c9ce050e0</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Error: Programmer initialization failed.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">^[[AEntering raw bitbang mode failed!</font></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div></div></div></body></html>