Isn't there a jumper on the motherboard or a setting in bios to deny write access to the bios? Sounds like if you just move the jumper or change the setting the error message will go away.
The earlier DS2R BIOSes have a flash protection setting in bios. Make sure you dont have this enabled.
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However, I've already updated the bios from the original f2 to f4d when that one was announced. I haven't enabled any kind of write protection in neither the bios nor any jumper. I only changed the bios settings to oc a E4300 to the max my ram would alllow with the
I'm afraid that the bios has become corrupted by my initial bios flashing attempt (used the 1.20 first, then the 1.21 - and then again the 1.20). In the first attempt the utility failed to role back to the previous version - it just gave the error message. In the next attempt it did role back, but I'm afraid that it is now to a corrupted version. Can it be that a failed bios flashing attempt somehow write protects the bios (now 'protecting' a bad bios)? If that is the case, any ideas how to unlock it? Will q-flash still work if the bios is fubr?? Thanks again.