<html><body><div><pre style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi Stefan, Sorry I got confused because I normally donate to useful little utility programs such as flashrom, I just assumed I had donated because I always give something.... Anyway thanks for letting me know you can't update the bios in Windows with flashrom. :-) Chris Hudson Esq.

</pre></div><div><br>On Jul 15, 2013, at 08:56 PM, Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:<br><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch">On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:42:31 +0000 (GMT)<br> CJ HUDSON <<a href="mailto:mindzeebeez@mac.com" data-mce-href="mailto:mindzeebeez@mac.com">mindzeebeez@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">Hi,</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">I have successfully used flashrom before and donated to the project.</blockquote><br> Interesting... because we have never accepted donations :)<br> <br><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">However, I have stopped using Ubuntu because I was experimenting with overclocking and am now building a new PC and have to do a lot of restarts which was a pain with dual boot Windows/ Ubuntu.</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">Hence I am now trying to get flashrom working with windows 7.</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">Please can you help? I get the error message described in the attached .jpg file and cannot seem to install flashrom, despite downloading WinZip and Open Freely (<a href="http://www.winzip.com/win/en/index.htm" data-mce-href="http://www.winzip.com/win/en/index.htm">http://www.winzip.com/win/en/index.htm</a> and <a href="http://www.openfreely.com/" data-mce-href="http://www.openfreely.com/">http://www.openfreely.com/</a> respectively.)</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite"></blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">Chris Hudson Esq.</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite"></blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">A non-text attachment has been stripped. Its content was:</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite"></blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">flashrom.exe - System Error</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite"></blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">The program can't start because libusb0.dll is missing from your</blockquote><blockquote class="quoted-plain-text" type="cite">computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.</blockquote><br> To me this looks like you are using the wrong dll, namely the 32 bit<br> version on a 64 bit windows or the other way around.<br> In any case... if you plan to use flashrom on windows to update the<br> host's firmware, forget about it... there is no implementation for that<br> whatsoever.<br> <br> -- <br> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>