Nick: carco E-mail: none Board: Asus P5LD2-VM Contents: $ sudo flashrom -w P5LD2-VM-1401.ROM flashrom v0.9.2-r1028 on Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (i686), built with libpci 3.0.0, GCC 4.4.4, little endian flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org Calibrating delay loop... OK. No coreboot table found. Found chipset "Intel ICH7/ICH7R", enabling flash write... OK. This chipset supports the following protocols: FWH. Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000. Flash image seems to be a legacy BIOS. Disabling checks. Writing flash chip... Erasing flash chip... ERASE FAILED at 0x00005760! Expected=0xff, Read=0x50, failed byte count from 0x00005000-0x00005fff: 0x87a ERASE FAILED! ERASE FAILED at 0x00005760! Expected=0xff, Read=0x50, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0xa7ea ERASE FAILED! FAILED! ERASE FAILED! FAILED! Your flash chip is in an unknown state.