Hi all,

I did something stupid, I was trying to flash my modded Aptio IV bios I just changed some settings to "User" using AMIBCP, however I flashed it using flashrom.... (Instead of afudos /gan) and the bios was only 6 MB and not 8, So i think it was not a full SPI flash.

Now the notebook is not turning on at all, two lights just keep blinking nothing more then that. I feel so stupid because normal i'm so careful doing such things however the excitement got me so far bricking it. So now I ordered a SOIC8 SOP8 Clip and lots of pin headers and I hope i'm able to fix it using my Raspberry PI. I was hoping someone could get me on the right track.

(Current BIOS BRICKED)

BIOS DATE: 08/20/12 20:43:45 VER: 04.06.05 (6MB)
Motherboard Name Medion E6232 MSN 4004 2827

BIOS Type AMI EFI
BIOS Version 0.26
System BIOS Date 08/20/2012
Video BIOS Date 04/26/12

Bios Chip Motherboard:

Winbond 25q64fvsig (8M-byte)

Datasheet:

https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Dev/Teensy/w25q64fv.pdf

Edit:1

I found a other rom file full SPI flash (8mb) see below:

Edit 2:

Bios fixed by using SOIC8 test clip and Raspberry PI.

(Bios found on the internet FULL SPI V0.24 8MB)

Storage Controller BIOS modules:

Thanks Fernando,

I will follow the guidelines sorry for that, from now on I will use the right formatting to make it easy for all the people that would like to help me.
is there any reason why you removed the OLD bios report? or perhaps by mistake?

Thanks,

Toetje583

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #5

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Zitat von Toetje583 im Beitrag #3

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is there any reason why you removed the OLD bios report? or perhaps by mistake?

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It was not my intention to remove the OLD bios report. So I obviously have done it by mistake. I am sorry about that.
Please edit the related post and re-attach the OLD bios report.
Thanks!

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@plutomaniac

Thats about right, two years ago this notebook was send back to Medion due some issues with the screen, However they replaced the hole board and somehow the Intel ME device was gone. I didn't care that time.
So i used Linux to see if i could find the device, but nope so i assumed they flashed a bios without it. So this is where I started to do some stupid things However i still own a 6MB dump, I make it with afudos before I changed anything. The final goal for me is to get a working notebook and ME back :)

@plutomaniac Thanks for the fast reply,

If I merge my backup with the version i found, what about the ME protection, I just found this:

"Probing works (Winbond W25Q64, 8192 kB, SPI), but parts of the flash are problematic: descriptor is r/o (conforming to ICH reqs), ME region is locked."

https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware

Thanks, I fully understand now!

Well i wanted to unlock some bios settings aswell after I replaced it, I found out that there are two bios setup images, one text "Setup" and one "oemsetup".

Seems like once I enter the bios i get this one:

OEMSETUP

But there is also a normal "setup" with as far as I can tell is fully unlocked. I don't know if there is way to access it but you never know :)

I was able to recover the bios using a Raspberry PI and a soic8 test clip, i'm now moving forward to the ME cleanup part :)

The system seems to be fully operational :)

Thanks for all the feedback!