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Q: flashrom doesn't seem to work on my board, what can I do?

First of all, check if your chipset, ROM chip, and mainboard are supported (see tables above, or use flashrom -L).
If your board has a jumper for BIOS flash protection (check the manual), disable it.
Should your BIOS menu have a BIOS flash protection option, disable it.
If you run flashrom on a Linux system with kernels >= 2.6.27 there are two issues you have to check:
- See next question: X86_PAT and nopat
- See next question: CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
See this page for instructions on how to test flashrom support properly (this may be risky, make sure you have a working backup flash chip).

Q: I get 'Can't mmap memory using /dev/mem: Invalid argument'

Please check that your kernel doesn't have CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM set, as it will stop flashrom from working.

Another poster reported that CONFIG_X86_PAT will also stop flashrom from working. Please try booting with the nopat kernel parameter to temporarily disable it.

Q: How do I use flashrom?

Please see the flashrom(8) manpage.

Q: Is there a flashrom Live CD?

See Flashrom/Live CD.

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