Skip to content

Comment on Investigating a vanishing BIOS on the Fujitsu Lifebook AH532parent

Comments

I was able to fix a laptop I bricked that way, note to self: never disable usb on a device with only usb input. the device had no bios clear pins. So I got a chip flasher and a soic clip and reflashed the firmware the hard way. luckily it worked "on board"

A process note. I did not really know what I was doing. and nothing was flashing correctly. Most of my problems ended up being with the cheap soic clip I had bought. After buying a nicer one it flashed first try. If anyone wants a recommendation, the nicer clip was from pomona electronics.

https://www.pomonaelectronics.com/products/test-clips/soic-c...

Most of my problems ended up being with the cheap soic clip I had bought. After buying a nicer one it flashed first try. If anyone wants a recommendation, the nicer clip was from pomona electronics.

I can +1 for that clip. Had similar issues pulling data off a flash chip. If `flashrom` could see it at all, each read would come back with a different `sha1` hash.

Spent _way_ too long fighting that before I had the "wonder if this cheap clip is the issue..." thought. The pomona clip is so much better made and holds on to the chip well.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.