On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:39:47 +0100 Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > By the way I have contacted ASUS about the problem, but no answer. > I would be only too willing to make a donation to the project if we can > get this sorted out!
hello! i am not sure why, but we have not received your first mail. we had some maintenance yesterday so... > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: error message: flashrom > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:34:52 +0100 > From: Chris <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > > > Hi, > Please help me, I get the message below when I try and flash the bios > with flashrom. > > I have the new ROM file on my desktop waiting to install. It may have a > compatibility issue because although it is the correct one, it is for > motherboard ASUS P5L-VM-1394 and I have the P5L-VM-1394 (V-P5945G). > Which is why the built in system BIOS updater wouldn't work. this reads a bit like this http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20090425024409002&board_id=1&model=P5L-VM+1394&page=1&SLanguage=en-us maybe this is just an error in the flash programs or the image... i cant find a barebone pc with the name V-P5945G... did the mainboard come with a barebone pc from asus like this one http://www.asus.com/Barebone_PC/V_Series_2530L/V2P5945G/ or did you buy the board alone? > I also tried AFUDOS (didn't have motherboard DVD) and the proprietory > ASUS updater ((which runs in Windows partition)- same problem re: new > BIOS "compatibility"). > > Thanks in advance for any assistance! you did not mention which version of flashrom you were using, please provide the full verbose log (flashrom -V). > > Calibrating delay loop... OK. > ======================================================================== > WARNING! You may be running flashrom on an unsupported laptop. We could > not detect this for sure because your vendor has not setup the SMBIOS > tables correctly. You can enforce execution by adding > '-p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick' to the command line, but > please read the following warning if you are not sure. > > Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we > recommend to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller > (EC) in these machines often interacts badly with flashing. > See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details. > > If flash is shared with the EC, erase is guaranteed to brick your laptop > and write may brick your laptop. > Read and probe may irritate your EC and cause fan failure, backlight > failure and sudden poweroff. > You have been warned. > ======================================================================== obviously you are not using a laptop here, so there is no problem. just use the additional parameter as described above please. -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
