I have a huge problem on my hands and I need some help from you. I used flashrom to detect my chipset and this is what it gave me
╔═[15:09]═[inxs @ arch]
╚═══===═══[~]>> sudo flashrom
flashrom v0.9.1-r710
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH2-M", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF004A/B" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000.
No operations were specified.
Then I went ahead and created a backup of my current BIOS. That went well and I had my backup. However the exe BIOS I downloaded from Dell fro my laptop didn't have any file that matched the size of my current BIOS. I did a -v on each file and for all it gave me a "size doesn't match"
Finally I thought I should at least try to see if flashrom will flash my BIOS with the backup that I created. Then flashrom gave me this and now I am not sure if I can reboot or not.
╔═[14:58]═[inxs @ arch]
╚═══===═══[~]>> sudo flashrom -w backupBios.bin
Password:
flashrom v0.9.1-r710
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH2-M", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
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... Block lock clearing failed, not erasing block at 0x000000
ERASE FAILED!
ERASE FAILED!
FAILED!
Your flash chip is in an unknown state.
Get help on IRC at irc.freenode.net channel #flashrom or
mail flashrom@flashrom.org
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DO NOT REBOOT OR POWEROFF!
Should I reboot?? I know this blog is almost 3 years old, but I am really hoping that you could help me out. If you need more information then please email. Also, I started a thread on the Arch linux forums which might help you in gleaning some info that you might require.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=98538
Thanks in advance.