On 08.07.2010 09:44, Mattias Mattsson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 08:55, Michael Karcher > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The important part of flashrom output is >> >> >>> BIOS Lock Enable: enabled, BIOS Write Enable: disabled, BIOS_CNTL is 0x2 >>> tried to set 0xdc to 0x3 on ICH6/ICH6R failed (WARNING ONLY) >>> FAILED! >>> >> This means that the BIOS configured the chipset in a way that makes >> probing/erasing/writing of the flash chip impossible for code running >> normally on the system. The only way to reconfigure that would be from >> the system management mode of the processor, a special mode that >> executes BIOS code in a environment that is protected from the OS. The >> only way of updating your BIOS in the current configuration would be >> cooperating with the system management code through some vendor-specific >> interface and have the system management code access the flash. >> >> This kind of BIOS update is not what the flashrom project currently >> supports, so on your system it seems you need the vendor tools, which >> seems quite common on HP/Compaq systems. It might also be that there is >> a "enable BIOS updates" option in your BIOS setup which is disabled. In >> this case, please retry with that option enabled. >> > > OK. Thanks for the info! > > I did not find a "enable BIOS updates" option in the setup. :-( >
Maybe "BIOS write enable", "BIOS virus protection", "Flash update" or something like that? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
