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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Trying to read the flashrom on this laptop, but is not supported. Want to read out the bios and rewrite the file to an identical laptop motherboard which had a bad flash, and has no known recovery method, so trying to flash in circuit.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>flashrom v0.9.8-r1887 on Linux 3.13.0-46-generic (i686)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>flashrom was built with libpci 3.2.1, GCC 4.8.2, little endian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Command line (3 args): flashrom -p internal -V<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 830M loops per second, 10 myus = 12 us, 100 myus = 101 us, 1000 myus = 999 us, 10000 myus = 10018 us, 4 myus = 5 us, OK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Initializing internal programmer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>No coreboot table found.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Using Internal DMI decoder.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>DMI string chassis-type: "Other"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>DMI chassis-type is not specific enough.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>DMI string system-manufacturer: "PACKARD BELL BV"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>DMI string system-product-name: "EasyNote MH45 "<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>DMI string system-version: "PE2 "<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>DMI string baseboard-manufacturer: "PACKARD BELL BV"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>DMI string baseboard-product-name: "EasyNote MH45 "<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>DMI string baseboard-version: " "<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>W836xx enter config mode worked or we were already in config mode. W836xx leave config mode had no effect.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Active config mode, unknown reg 0x20 ID: 85.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Please send the output of "flashrom -V -p internal" to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>flashrom@flashrom.org with W836xx: your board name: flashrom -V<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>as the subject to help us finish support for your Super I/O. Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Found ITE EC, ID 0x8512, Rev 0x60 on port 0x2e.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>========================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>WARNING! You may be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. We could<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>not detect this for sure because your vendor has not setup the SMBIOS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>tables correctly. You can enforce execution by adding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>'-p internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop' to the command line, but<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>please read the following warning if you are not sure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>(EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>See the manpage and http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>and write may brick your laptop.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>failure and sudden poweroff.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>You have been warned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>========================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Aborting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Error: Programmer initialization failed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Tom Meades<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>tomead@btopenworld.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>