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6 hours ago, mac_vti said:

Hi Klem,

Could you please remove the WWAN/WLAN whitelist and unlock the Advanced Menu for my Thinkpad X240 bios please? A link to my bios can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pmZRp6tfcBy63z2sY-jfoO1IKrHjwI9J/view?usp=sharing

 

Thanks a million!

Hi!

Ok. Check PM.

6 hours ago, AlonsoA said:

Hi @Klem, could you help me with whitelist please?

 

https://mega.nz/folder/AwJW0TZI#I7-HXOVAeKOIkEJ4Sbp3lg

 

Thanks!

Hi!

Ok. Check your Inbox.

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Sorry for beeing so late with my reply. I'll try to put it all in one long answer.

 

I received the laptop with the words: "Here. We had this lying around for ages because the guy who set the password doesn't work here anymore and noone knows the password, found some videos online, that you can bridge two contacts to bypass it. Want to give it a try? It's useless anyway"

 

Free laptop? Sure! 

 

So I found the videos like this, too and gave it a try. Should have done some more research in the beginning... but having IT background myself I just assumed that the BIOS would skip the password check if it received invalid response when the method is called... 

 

So I tried to get the "correct timing" but I failed every time. And that last time the laptop made beeping noises (which I can't recall exactly) but kind of like "missing RAM". And from that moment the laptop didn't boot anymore. 

 

That means: The mainboard started, the hdd spun up, the fan spun up shortly, the cpu started to get warm, the F1 Key lit up shortly but the screen stayed black. 

I assumed I blew a fuse while trying to bridge it and that It might just be missing screen backlighting, but the screen stayed completely off. 

Checked with a good known USB keyboard with CAPS-Lock light if it turns on during boot. But it didn't.

Removed the ram. Beeping but no booting (as expected).

 

Tried the wildest combinations of power draining. Disconnected the internal battery, disconnected, the CMOS battery, tried the built in "reset button". But not luck. 

 

Took the laptop to work and used a CH341A programmer with Clip to see if I blew the Winbond 25Q128FVSQ, but to my amazement It detected the chip and I could read the contents. 

 

Then I thought I might be able to get a fresh BIOS from the Lenovo BIOS Update Package. But while looking at the procedure of how to extract it form the updater.exe or the iso I found an (seemingly) already extracted BIOS here.

 

I emptied the chip, programmed it with the bin aaaaaand: The screen turned on. The POST started and then it failed with a CMOS Time error (I expected that) and a Error 0183 Bad CRC in Security Settings in EFI Variable - Press F1 to start Setup. 

 

Pressing F1 results in a Supervisor Password prompt (little guy besides the lock)

 

On the original BIOS I could just hit enter an came at least in a read only mode into the BIOS settings. But now I just received the crosses (after three tries) and a "stop signaling hand" 

 

I was intrigued, that the flashed BIOS might have a password set (although at that time I learned, that the password seems to be stored on another chip)

 

So I checked again on the website where I downloaded the bios.bin if there is a note like "password is 1234 or something"

 

Unfortunately I didn't find anything. But another post on the same website here wich leads to another google drive with another binary. 

 

Did a Hex diff and saw that it is indeed different. cleared the chip. flashed the second bios. 

Laptop boots (with another Logo) but still the Bad CRC error came up and the F1 Setup prompted for a password. 

 

Just for the kicks I flashed the original BIOS I read from the chip in the beginning to check if it magically boots again, but no it doesn't.

 

Reflashed one of the downloaded. Boots again (still prompting for a password)

 

Then I thought: Maybe I can use a Open Source Bios like libreboot or coreboot. But I learned that the bios has to be signed from the X240 upwards because of Intels BootGuard

 

Then I stumbled across this post and thought I could give it a try because it seems like you're kind of deep into the matter and you might have a solution or a hint of what I can do. 

 

At this point I'm thinking about: 

1 ) Maybe I do the effort to extract the bios from the official Lenovo bios update

2 ) I try to research where the password is stored and if it is possible to replace the chip (or clear it)

 

Because now that I saw the laptop came back to life again I'm kind of intrigued that I might get it back working completely again.

 

 

 

Sorry for the long story. Hope I didn't miss anything. 

Any help is appreciated

 

Kind regards

 

Xcame

 

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26 minutes ago, Xcame said:

Sorry for the long story. Hope I didn't miss anything. 

Any help is appreciated

 

Kind regards

 

Xcame

 

Unfortunately I can't help you in your case, because I don't work with any passwords. Sorry.

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2 hours ago, McFell said:

Hi Klem,

 

would you be so kind and please also remove the whitelist and unlock the advanced menu for my x240 bios?!

Link to the bios-dump: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3vg6uy1ecfitbf/bios1.img?dl=0

 

thanks a bunch!

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Ok. Check PM.

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4 minutes ago, zale1983 said:

Hi Klem

 

Please help to remove x240 bios whitelist and get advanced menu.

 

https://doom365-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/zale_zhao_doom365_onmicrosoft_com/EfYNxo4vxA9LpTok5gvroNABGN_lMsZbOsd8MvIncIkmYw?e=1rPXpk

 

Thanks so much for your help

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Ok. Check PM.

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20 minutes ago, 0karlk0 said:

Hi Klem,
Can you please remove LCD whitelist for my X240? I replaced from HD TN (1366 x 768) to FHD IPS (1920 x 1080) and now I cant lower brightness.
Thanks

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Ok. Send me your bios dump.

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Hi, Klem! I have exactly the same programmer as on the picture in you first post. I know there is a problem with signal output voltage  (5v instead 3.3v). There are problems on the X 230 with a burnout of the bios chip strapping, I do not know if there are similar problems with x 240. And i know also that guys with x230 do the trick with wake on lan and active ethernet cable to do the bios dump and flashing to avoid breakdowns. Do I need to modify programmer before using, and to make any tricks with power supply on x240?

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4 hours ago, Donkey Hot said:

Do I need to modify programmer before using, and to make any tricks with power supply on x240?

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No, with X240 you can use CH341A programmer as is.

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11 hours ago, Klem said:

Hi!

No, with X240 you can use CH341A programmer as is.

Well, here is my dump. Is it possible to remove remove whitelist complitely? If it's not i'm interested in wlan, modem and lcd. I will also be gratefull for unlocking the advanced menu. Thx!

https://litter.catbox.moe/56fh0y.bin

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5 minutes ago, Donkey Hot said:

Well, here is my dump. Is it possible to remove remove whitelist complitely? If it's not i'm interested in wlan, modem and lcd. I will also be gratefull for unlocking the advanced menu. Thx!

https://litter.catbox.moe/56fh0y.bin

 

Ok. Check PM.

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