[flashrom] cannot work on Intel ICH7/ICH7R & SST SST25VF016B (2048 KB, SPI)

Water Chen waterc at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 14:06:42 CET 2009


Hi,

flashrom cannot work on Intel ICH7/ICH7R / SST SST25VF016B (2048 KB,
SPI). Can someone help me recover?

MB: Supermicro X7SLM-L /
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core2Duo/945/X7SLM-L.cfm

# ./flashrom -w BIOS_X7SLM-L.ROM
flashrom v0.9.1-r792
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST25VF016B" (2048 KB, SPI) at physical address 0xffe00000.
Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
Writing flash chip... spi_write_status_register failed during command
execution spi_write_status_register failed Erasing flash before
programming... Erasing flash chip... spi_write_status_register failed
during command execution spi_write_status_register failed
spi_disable_blockprotect failed FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
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Thank you.
Water Chen




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