Lenovo x250 bricked, bios needed

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  • poteck
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    • Jun 2020
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    • spain
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    Lenovo x250 bricked, bios needed

    Hi,

    My Lenovo x250 Core i5 5200U die or is bricked after I crap my clover setup and something went bananas in the nvram. The last message I read was cram full, then reboot and the just turn on the power led, then the keyboard backlight on/off, and in 30 seconds, all off. No screen.

    I have the ch341a, but even If I backup my old bios, its useless. Anyway I have all the uuid, serial, etc, safe.

    My bios version previous to the brick was 1.27. https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/n10uj15w.exe

    Do I need just the .bin extracted from Lenovo update file or do I need a complete Dump?

    Thanks
    Last edited by poteck; 06-08-2020, 01:00 PM.
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    • poteck
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      • Jun 2020
      • 3
      • spain
      #2
      Re: Lenovo x250 bricked, bios needed

      No one have an x250? Please...

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        • lapfix
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          • Mar 2020
          • 2750
          • my workshop
          #3
          Re: Lenovo x250 bricked, bios needed

          What your are extracting from lenovo site is just a bios region (01E5000.FL1 )n.Post your old dump to make a full dump

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            • cool-oase
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              • Jan 2019
              • 12
              • Germany
              #4
              Re: Lenovo x250 bricked, bios needed

              u cannot use the bios from the lenovo updater. you need a bios dump. You can have a try with the attached bios dump file. It worked for me.

              Before flashing compare Mainboard Names to ensure, it's the correct bios. EC will most likely not be required.

              Good luck.
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