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oarecare · Nou Venit Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 8

did anybody bother to save the flash contents of the t30? (M50FW080 flash chip). If so, could you attach the file contents?

TIA

steve5214 · Membru Activ Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 61

oarecare
You should be able to extract what you need from the bios download available from IBM.
Cheers
Steve.

oarecare · Nou Venit Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 8

unfortunately not... for a 8Mb flash they have a 500kB flash update... that is half the size. More, the sectors are not written in order, some are encrypted....

steve5214 · Membru Activ Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 61

oarecare
What problem is it that you have ?
The 500kb once extracted is 1,056,768 bytes, which is a combination of bios data and the platform data, these used to be for example FL1 & FL2. They are now combined into the one file.
Steve.

oarecare · Nou Venit Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 8

unfortunately there is only a fl1 file, 561kB in size. what should i do to recreate the 8Mb original file?

regards

steve5214 · Membru Activ Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 61

What problem did you have that you need the bios file ?

oarecare · Nou Venit Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 8

it won't begin POST. LED's light up, but the rest remains dead. Still, it allows me to power off.

steve5214 · Membru Activ Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 61

oarecare,
Yes there are problems with the original bios.
I asked - How did you get the bios dump ?
To quote you -
"desoldered the chip and read it with a programmer as i said, the laptop is dead.How do you expect me to revive it any other ways?"

Maybe Victor can help you.
"NO" Cheers
Steve.