Am Sonntag, den 14.11.2010, 09:45 +0000 schrieb Matthew Chapman: > is old so I decided to try and update it using flashrom. However, it > said erase failed and to contact you. I should have probably started > something easier on my first attempt to use Linux... Your output looks like flashrom doesn't know how to disable write protection on that ASUS board, and thus the erase attempt did nothing at all.
> I did a backup of the current image. Please run "flashrom -v backup.img" replacing backup.img by the file name of the backup you created. If it outputs "VERIFIED", your BIOS is really unmodified and you are safe. > da...@daddy-system-name:~/Desktop/flashrom-0.9.2$ sudo flashrom -w 1018.004 > flashrom v0.9.2-r1028 on Linux 2.6.35-22-generic (i686), built with libpci > 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.4, little endian [...] > I think my machine is an ASUS A7V333 I just checked the flashrom version history. You are using revision 1028. The A7V333 is claimed to be supported since 1167, so you might want to upgrade flashrom to a newer version. Regards, Michael Karcher _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
