Nick: PaulePanter E-mail: none Board: DMI: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 7010/0GXM1W, BIOS A08 09/19/2012 Contents: $ sudo ./flashrom -p internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop --ifd -r /dev/shm/test.rom flashrom v0.9.9-86-ge1a960e0 on Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org Using clock_gettime for delay loops (clk_id: 1, resolution: 1ns). ======================================================================== 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=this_is_not_a_laptop' 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 the manpage and https://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. ======================================================================== Proceeding anyway because user forced us to. Found chipset "Intel Q77". This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version of flashrom *and* were (not) able to successfully update your firmware with it, then please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org including a verbose (-V) log. Thank you! Enabling flash write... Warning: Setting Bios Control at 0xdc from 0x0a to 0x09 failed. New value is 0x0a. Warning: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. FREG0: Warning: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-only. FREG2: Warning: Management Engine region (0x00005000-0x005fffff) is locked. Not all flash regions are freely accessible by flashrom. This is most likely due to an active ME. Please see https://flashrom.org/ME for details. Writes have been disabled for safety reasons. You can enforce write support with the ich_spi_force programmer option, but you will most likely harm your hardware! If you force flashrom you will get no support if something breaks. On a few mainboards it is possible to enable write access by setting a jumper (see its documentation or the board itself). Enabling hardware sequencing due to multiple flash chips detected. PROBLEMS, continuing anyway Found Programmer flash chip "Opaque flash chip" (12288 kB, Programmer-specific) mapped at physical address 0x0000000000000000. Reading ich descriptor... done. Reading flash... done.