BYUSinger84 Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 (edited) I have a Lenovo Y500. I tried to flash the bios a few years ago but something happened and it never came back to life. Today I've tried to revive it. The TL;DR is... No other "normal" recovery methods worked so... I purchased an SPI clamp to read and flash the BIOS chip directly (using a Raspberry Pi). Because the bios file provided here and on Lenovo's website is almost 8 MB and the two chips on the motherboard are 4 MB and 2 MB, I had to dig around to try to find some one who had posted their .bin/.rom files for each of those chips. Unfortunately, none of them worked. The system will turn on, and it will even enter into recovery mode using FN+R, but the USB flashes a couple of times, then turns off, then cycles through the few flashes. Maybe I don't have the correct file it's looking for but idk anymore. If anyone knows specifically what files to put on that USB drive to make that work OR can give me a SPI dump of their BIOS chips, that would be splendid. Thanks. Edited December 27, 2019 by BYUSinger84 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaDkawi636 Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 Unfortunately it's unlikely that anyone will post their dumped bios image for you since they include a users specific Windows registration licence, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XIXO123 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I have this 2 files (2 and 4 Mb). Make sure that your board is LA-8692 https://gofile.io/?c=zLG2bH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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