Flash Rom Protection Random Error (Gigabyte)

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I had some troubles with my system to I flashed the Bios to see if it would resolve some of the problems.

But for some odd reason I have the following problem:

On random (every 5th or so reboot) I get the following error..

Verify DMI Pool................................Flash Rom Protected

and the system just halts there. This is resolved by a simple reboot. Usually it's just Verifing DMI Pool and my PC boots as normal :confused:

I've even tried different revisions (F6,F7) to see if it makes a difference...nope.

Motherboard = Gigabyte GA-M55S-S3 Rev 1.0
And yes I have checked if there is any option in the bios to disable this annoying error. I've even emailed Gigabyte but they do really seem to technical minded.

Any advice? :(
 
Set the Allow DMI pool update in the bios to enabled.

Can be know by other names, but there is a setting in the BIOS that allows the updates. If you can't find it please point me to a link where I can download your motherboard booklet (manual) and I'll be able to further assist you ;)
 
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The setting is present on one of my very old motherboards (p2 era), but I did look at the booklet and I can't see any setting to indicate it as a option.

My advice is: Download the LATEST BIOS for your board. Save it on a floppy disc, go into the BIOS, LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS, restart, go back into the BIOS, press F8. Now you can either have one of the boards with Dual BIOS or one without.

Single BIOS: If you have one that does not include it, do as follows: DISABLE "Keep DMI data", then update the BIOS from the floppy disc. Restart, LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS, restart. Change your settings how you prefer.

Dual BIOS: Report back what the Primary and secondary BIOS is. I doubt they would be the same version, which would allow you to "roll back" to your old BIOS that came with the board. After that you restart and try to re-flash the BIOS your JUST RESTORED using the floppy disc. Restart, LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS, restart. Change your settings how you prefer.

From what you say I doubt you have a Dual Bios but any just post which you have. Hope this helps...

EDIT: The problem you described I've seen personally with 2 boards, one I mentioned was the old p2 board where dmi update writes could be disabled, the other was with my MSI K7N2-ILSR that had a corrupted BIOS after flashing it, overclocking it and various other situations, only solution was to FORCE the DMI pool data to be erased, as far as I could tell the BIOS image was being corrupted by the DMI update itself, after that initial corruption it was impossible to fix without a re-flash, the flash tool had a flag you could set, erase DMI pool, override boot area, both of which I enabled, when updating it shows which areas are updated and which aren't when all flags where set all areas where overwritten, when no flags where set, quite a few areas where not overwritten (obviously the boot area and the DMI data area).
 
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