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A method I used on a bricked bios was directly connecting the bios chip to my raspberry pi and using a program called flashrom to flash it. I soldered wires directly to my chip but you can get clips that do not require soldering. https://www.flashrom.org/RaspberryPi here's the flashrom link. http://www.win-raid.com/t58f16-Guide-Recover-from-failed-BIOS-flash-using-Raspberry-PI.html tutorial link, I did this without the resistors or capacitor(Ignore the ground that the capacitor was connected to) I checked the bios chip on the y500 schematics and it has the same pinout as the one in the tutorial.
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P170HM bios recovery help
robinlecouteur replied to ajbutch123's topic in General Notebook Discussions
Don't know if you still have it, but you can flash the chip directly with a Raspberry Pi using flashrom, https://www.flashrom.org/RaspberryPi. I fixed my completely bricked P170SM-A using this method. -
Fixed it! I flashed the bios chip directly with flashrom on my Raspberry Pi 2 model B. https://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom. @Prema have you used this? I just looked at the motherboard schematics to find the bios chip model, then google the pinout for the chip. I soldered wires onto my chip and connected them to specific pins on the gpio of the rpi, then flashrom detected the chip and I could flash it. Typing this on my now unbricked P170SM-A! This method works with some of the older model RPi's so it is a cheap method to unbrick a laptop with a corrupt bios. Cheers, Robin
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Hi, I modded my bios for the microcode hack to be able to oc my i7 4710mq in my P170SM-A. Here' the link to the site that shows how to mod http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/4ghz-overclock-i7-4xxxxmq-h-to-i7-extreme-conversion-intel-haswell-cpu-microcode-bug-hack.790177/ The instructions do not mention adding the old version microcode back into the bios, so i didn't, but I have a feeling i should have. my laptop now has a black screen and reboots every minute continually. If I put a usb with a rom of the bios that prema put in another post for the fn b method, and I hold fn b, my usb's lights flash and the hdd light on the laptop flashes 3 times in a row quicky every few seconds then the flashing stops and the laptop gets stuck in the blackscreen reboot loop again. What should I do? I need this laptop for my study that starts in a week. The bios it was running before the issues is this. Image https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7QJ1eF_RQN8NnJJdjVDQnVpLTZobkpucFJOVl9LSUxveXZv/view?usp=sharing Rom file https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7QJ1eF_RQN8MEZhYmVJQzlnWlU/view?usp=sharing And the modded one https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7QJ1eF_RQN8SmhsZHJ5TWpGMzA/view?usp=sharing If it can be fixed, I'll happily donate If soft fixes don't work, what options are there with flashing the bios chip directly? Thanks Robin
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Bios for HD8970M / R9 M290X on P-1XXEM
robinlecouteur replied to MasterInTheUniverse's topic in Clevo
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=&manufacturer=&model=HD+8970M&interface=&memType=&memSize=&since= This is where you get the vbioses, if it is not already flashed. -
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=&manufacturer=&model=HD+8970M&interface=&memType=&memSize=&since= Try this site, these are stock vbioses. Just match the memory quantity and brand to the vbios and flash it with atiflash here https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ati-atiflash/. That fixes the no vbios issue, don't know about the laptop's bios though.
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Also the 7970, 8970, and R9 M290x are the exact same card. just slight overclocks and vram increases on the later ones by default. I think the 7970 and the 8970 are a bit different that the 8970 has enduro/graphics switching capability added, but the R9 M290x actually shows as an 8970m in gpuz etc. Same with the gtx 680m, 780m, and 880m. can save a bit of cash by getting the older gens and clocking them the same as the 'newer' ones for the exact same performance.
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I have an 8970m that failed recently. Doing the oven trick to reflow the solder worked and the card runs properly now. Artifacts on the screen can mean a bad connection sometimes. Cheers