Help with Winbond 16MB W25Q128FV chip on Lenovo D30.

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#1 | Help with Winbond 16MB W25Q128FV chip on Lenovo D30. datum

Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:30 pm (Last edited: Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:31 pm)

I messed up a Bios flash on my motherboard and am trying to figure out how to restore it with my CH341A programmer. The bios I extracted is 16MB from the chip, but it is corrupt and does not boot. When I download the bios from the Lenovo website it gives me a bios that is only 8MB, which works when using the software based flashing tools, but when i flash with the CH341A it will not power the system up for more than a second (power supply just turns on and off repeatably). So it seems it wants a 16MB file for the chip, but the one I have extracted is corrupt, and the 8MB bios from Lenovo isn't working when programmed through the hardware flash. Any help? Thanks!

Link to Lenovo bios:
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloa...-type-4353-4354

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#2 | RE: Help with Winbond 16MB W25Q128FV chip on Lenovo D30. datum

Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:34 pm

Hi there @Mercennarius

I am having exactly the same problem as you. Did you manage to get the 8MB bios working on the chip? My current solution is to increase the size of the ROM to 16MB from 8MB, but I have not tested it yet.

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#3 | RE: Help with Winbond 16MB W25Q128FV chip on Lenovo D30. datum

Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:47 pm

Lenovo update = bios region, not a complete bios firmware image.

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