Dear members,
I have a problem with this machine that still I can't solve, I hope some of you can suggest me something.
I was the first one to open the machine and touch the mainboard, in fact the Lenovo seal was intact the first time that I unscrewed all the internal screws.
The ower told me that it was working very good until Windows kicked "something like a firmware update" (owner's words) then the system started acting weird.
When you try to start it, some seconds after having pressed the power button, Lenovo splashscreen appears, then after 1 second, in the upper left corner of the display the message "BIInitializeLibrary failed 0xc0000185" pops up, and the system hangs there with no other option than to shut it down (ctrl+alt+del doesn't reboot the system).
If there's no SSD/HDD/boot media connected, the system goes to the "Checkin media" steps and tried to boot from the net two times, then hangs on "No boot media found" splashscreen.
I searched infos on the net and didn't find an exact solution, but I smelled that it was some problem within the UEFI/BIOS domain, even because trying to enter the bios settings (both by F2 or by the Novo side-button) ended in a blackscreen with the mouse cursor moving as you touch the pad, but freezed after a few seconds.
I then unsoldered and reprogrammed the bios IC UC3 (GD25LB128DSIG) with the latest bios update available on the Lenovo website, the FSCN26WW version.
First time I copied the DMI infos from original bios to the new one, then the second time, I copied the exact file as extracted from the Lenovo exe, but the problem still remains the same.
Of course I detached primary and CMOS battery, but it wasn't useful at all.
I tried to start some Crisis recovery procedure, the system reacts to FN+R combo, but then it doesn't read the file I put in my FAT32 USB pen, probably because I didn't match the exact filename (I tried : Crisis.bin, BHCRisis.bin, GY55X64.fd).
Since it's happened many times that Gigadevice products failed in different ways, I suspect that the very IC could be the real problem, even if I can read and write it by my external programmer, maybe the mainboard can't access to some of its memory locations, but it's a 128Mbit/1.8v IC which I don't have in stock and I can't receive it in any less than 2 weeks, so I was trying a way to test my idea before waiting all that time in vain.
I don't even have other mainboards that hosts a similar IC (like the W25Q128JWSIQ as first choice seen in the schematics pdf of this board).
Please, can you suggest something that I didn't already tried?
What would you do in my shoes?
I have a problem with this machine that still I can't solve, I hope some of you can suggest me something.
I was the first one to open the machine and touch the mainboard, in fact the Lenovo seal was intact the first time that I unscrewed all the internal screws.
The ower told me that it was working very good until Windows kicked "something like a firmware update" (owner's words) then the system started acting weird.
When you try to start it, some seconds after having pressed the power button, Lenovo splashscreen appears, then after 1 second, in the upper left corner of the display the message "BIInitializeLibrary failed 0xc0000185" pops up, and the system hangs there with no other option than to shut it down (ctrl+alt+del doesn't reboot the system).
If there's no SSD/HDD/boot media connected, the system goes to the "Checkin media" steps and tried to boot from the net two times, then hangs on "No boot media found" splashscreen.
I searched infos on the net and didn't find an exact solution, but I smelled that it was some problem within the UEFI/BIOS domain, even because trying to enter the bios settings (both by F2 or by the Novo side-button) ended in a blackscreen with the mouse cursor moving as you touch the pad, but freezed after a few seconds.
I then unsoldered and reprogrammed the bios IC UC3 (GD25LB128DSIG) with the latest bios update available on the Lenovo website, the FSCN26WW version.
First time I copied the DMI infos from original bios to the new one, then the second time, I copied the exact file as extracted from the Lenovo exe, but the problem still remains the same.
Of course I detached primary and CMOS battery, but it wasn't useful at all.
I tried to start some Crisis recovery procedure, the system reacts to FN+R combo, but then it doesn't read the file I put in my FAT32 USB pen, probably because I didn't match the exact filename (I tried : Crisis.bin, BHCRisis.bin, GY55X64.fd).
Since it's happened many times that Gigadevice products failed in different ways, I suspect that the very IC could be the real problem, even if I can read and write it by my external programmer, maybe the mainboard can't access to some of its memory locations, but it's a 128Mbit/1.8v IC which I don't have in stock and I can't receive it in any less than 2 weeks, so I was trying a way to test my idea before waiting all that time in vain.
I don't even have other mainboards that hosts a similar IC (like the W25Q128JWSIQ as first choice seen in the schematics pdf of this board).
Please, can you suggest something that I didn't already tried?
What would you do in my shoes?
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