THINKPAD Bios check - repair
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:30 am
Hello
I have a Lenovo Yoga X1 Carbon THINKPAD i7-6600U. 2.6ghz.
Motherboard is 00JT811
I was prompted to update the bios several weeks ago and it hung for about 50 minutes. After that, it wouldn't boot and although i could get into the bios, I couldn't get past it, despite trying so many things found on the internet. It had a repair option in the bios but it didn't actually work.
Anyway - i got a new motherboard and swapped it out and all was fine until i got blinking yellow power light a few days ago and it doesn't now power up at all and I cant fix that even by removing the battery, cmos battery or pressing in the tiny hole at the back of the computer. I assume it is fried. Perhaps I bought a dodgy motherboard!
I would like to see if I can fix the original motherboard by flashing it's bios chip (which I assume is the problem) with a ch341a programmer. I have taken a bios dump of the bios using this chip which I have here:-
https://englandandco-my.sharepoint.com/ ... Q?e=rse0zD
Can anyone hep with what I do next. I was going to try flashing the old board chip with the new board bios chip but I can only get FF's from reading this which is maybe because it's fried?
Any help would be appreciated. I have nothing to lose by trying something.
I have a Lenovo Yoga X1 Carbon THINKPAD i7-6600U. 2.6ghz.
Motherboard is 00JT811
I was prompted to update the bios several weeks ago and it hung for about 50 minutes. After that, it wouldn't boot and although i could get into the bios, I couldn't get past it, despite trying so many things found on the internet. It had a repair option in the bios but it didn't actually work.
Anyway - i got a new motherboard and swapped it out and all was fine until i got blinking yellow power light a few days ago and it doesn't now power up at all and I cant fix that even by removing the battery, cmos battery or pressing in the tiny hole at the back of the computer. I assume it is fried. Perhaps I bought a dodgy motherboard!
I would like to see if I can fix the original motherboard by flashing it's bios chip (which I assume is the problem) with a ch341a programmer. I have taken a bios dump of the bios using this chip which I have here:-
https://englandandco-my.sharepoint.com/ ... Q?e=rse0zD
Can anyone hep with what I do next. I was going to try flashing the old board chip with the new board bios chip but I can only get FF's from reading this which is maybe because it's fried?
Any help would be appreciated. I have nothing to lose by trying something.