[flashrom] Flash failed on ASUS P4C-800E Deluxe

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 04:45:50PM +0100, Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was just trying to flash the BIOS (version 1023) into an old ASUS
> P4C-800E Deluxe on ArchLinux (current updates as of 13-11-2009) and
> the latest version of flashrom from SVN. I get the following error:
> 
> [root at bart flashrom]# flashrom -w
> Display all 101 possibilities? (y or n)
> [root at bart flashrom]# flashrom w P4CED23.ROM
> -bash: flashrom: command not found
> [root at bart flashrom]# ./flashrom -w P4CED23.ROM
> flashrom v0.9.1-r756
> No coreboot table found.
> Found chipset "Intel ICH5/ICH5R", enabling flash write... OK.
> This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x000038d0! Expected=0xff,
> Read=0x44, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xc648
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> FAILED!
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or
> mail flashrom at flashrom.org!
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
> [root at bart flashrom]#
> 
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> 
> Adrian

AMI bios.

Please send me personally the top part of your system memory.

dd if=/dev/mem of=/tmp/asus_p4c800e.system.rom bs=64k count=1 skip=15

Luc Verhaegen.