[flashrom] Something went terribly wrong...

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Andrea,

don't worry, we can help you recover.

It looks like your chip may have ignored the erase command.

Can you please tell us the exact mainboard name and also send the output of
lspci -nnvvvxxx
(as root) to this list? Simply hit "reply all" in your mail program.

On 06.10.2009 19:21, Andrea Cucchi wrote:
> Here it is what happened
>
> andrea at andrea-desktop:~/Scrivania$ sudo flashrom -w W7046IM7.21C
> flashrom v0.9.1-r706
> Found chipset "Intel ICH6/ICH6R", enabling flash write... OK.
> Disabling flash write protection for board "MSI MS-7046"... OK.
> Calibrating delay loop... OK.
> Found chip "Winbond W39V040FA" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
> Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks.
> Writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00000000!
>   

Failed at 0x00000000 is usually a good sign.


> Expected=0xff,
> Read=0x49, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0007ffff: 0x53e8d
> ERASE FAILED!
> ERASE FAILED!
> FAILED!
> Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
> Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom

Can you join us in IRC? You can use http://webchat.freenode.net/ if you
don't have a IRC chat program. That way, we can directly diagnose this
with you.


> I can see only now that I did not write the "v" on the command line,
> dammit, please help needed.
>   

Did you backup the old image with "flashrom -r" first? If yes, you're
probably very lucky.


> Thank you very much for your atenction in advance.
>   

I'm confident we can fix this.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel