Nick: anonymous E-mail: none Board: Optiplex 3010 Contents: root@PartedMagic:~# flashrom -p internal:laptop=this_is_not_a_laptop -w new.bin flashrom v0.9.5.2-r1515 on Linux 3.5.6-pmagic (i686), built with libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.5.2, little endian flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org 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=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 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. ======================================================================== Proceeding anyway because user forced us to. Found chipset "Intel H61". This chipset is marked as untested. If you are using an up-to-date version of flashrom please email a report to flashrom@flashrom.org including a verbose (-V) log. Thank you! Enabling flash write... WARNING: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. The Flash Descriptor Security Override Strap-Pin is set. Restrictions implied by the FRAP and FREG registers are NOT in effect. Please note that Protected Range (PR) restrictions still apply. OK. Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405" (8192 kB, SPI) at physical address 0xff800000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling coreboot-related checks. Reading old flash chip contents... done. Erasing and writing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00201000! Expected=0xff, Read=0x64, failed byte count from 0x00200000-0x0020ffff: 0xeebf ERASE FAILED! Reading current flash chip contents... done. spi_block_erase_d8 failed during command execution at address 0x200000 Reading current flash chip contents... done. spi_chip_erase_60 failed during command execution Reading current flash chip contents... done. spi_chip_erase_c7 failed during command execution FAILED! Uh oh. Erase/write failed. Checking if anything changed. Your flash chip is in an unknown state. Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net (channel #flashrom) or mail flashrom@flashrom.org with FAILED: your board name in the subject line! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF! root@PartedMagic:~#