On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:38:55PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > 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 > > > > and...@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
Hrm... Whatever happened to this report? Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
