Comment 371 for bug 1734147

Same situation: in my ACER ASPIRE ES1-111M-C1LE after installing ukuu I put linux v4.14.9 and v4.14.10: both don't solve my problems with the bios.
my idea was to follow this guide to flash the bios: https://askubuntu.com/questions/144526/how-to-flash-a-bios-when-only-a-windows-binary-is-provided

I tried to make a backup of my bios with 'flashrom' and the result is:
# sudo flashrom -p internal -r backup.rom -o backuplog.txt

flashrom v0.9.9-r1954 on Linux 4.14.10-041410-generic (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
No DMI table found.
Found chipset "Intel Bay Trail".
Enabling flash write... Warning: BIOS region SMM protection is enabled!
Warning: Setting Bios Control at 0x0 from 0x22 to 0x01 failed.
New value is 0x22.
Warning: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated.
FREG0: Warning: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-only.
FREG2: Warning: Management Engine region (0x00001000-0x003fffff) is locked.
Not all flash regions are freely accessible by flashrom. This is most likely
due to an active ME. Please see https://flashrom.org/ME for details.
PR0: Warning: 0x007e1000-0x007fffff is read-only.
PR1: Warning: 0x005a6000-0x0076ffff is read-only.
Writes have been disabled for safety reasons. You can enforce write
support with the ich_spi_force programmer option, but you will most likely
harm your hardware! If you force flashrom you will get no support if
something breaks. On a few mainboards it is possible to enable write
access by setting a jumper (see its documentation or the board itself).
OK.
Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.W" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000.
Reading flash... Transaction error!
Read operation failed!
FAILED.