Thank you very much! This worked like a charm! Now the computer works as it should.

A few questions tho:
I followed your instructions to the best of my skills, read the whole thread several times and must admit didn't understand much (I have a lot of experience from the times up to Pentium III including component level repairs but that's where it ends, and so my memory :( )

What are the implications of using non-cleaned PE files or the ones provided on the forum? Will there be a problem re-installing Windows? If so what should I do to sort this all out?

So far the newest Lenovo firmware is from 2015 and didn't solve the problem in the least. I wrote on Lenovo forum as did many others but no answer so far...

Thank you one more time for your help so far.

Hi,
I have a Lenovo yoga 2 pro & it shuts down after 30 minutes .
When I try to read the ME info I get " error 9256: communication error…" ( dos boot )
I use an external programmer to flash the SPI & I am unable to get the ME to work.

I do not have the original SPI from this system , I somehow managed to lose it.
I got this board dead & I had to replace the EC chip & reflash it ( ite8586vg ) I have the 30 minutes shut down ever since .

I clean SPIs almost daily , I fix laptops & many arrive with dead SPIs so when I flash a doner SPI I get slow boots if I don't clean the SPI.
I have a cleaned ME SPI for this model that I usually use & I think it worked on about a dozen boards in the past .
I tried using some other SPIs of this model , even dirty ones that had issues, just to try & get some response from the ME .
nothing seems to work.


I also tried the SPI posted here :

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #115

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I have attached the latest BIOS/SPI image from Lenovo's 76CN43WW. You can flash that directly as it should be Configured (but not dirty/Initialized). You can follow the CleanUp Guide on that SPI if you like but its not a dump so it shouldn't be required in this case.

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