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  • newtothis
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    • Mar 2013
    • 1556
    • england

    #1

    Need some guidance please - APACHE GE60 2PC

    Ok I had a laptop come in with the owner saying they attempted a flash and it failed causing no display etc

    On opening it i found what appeared to be liquid residue - I have cleaned the board now and want to attempt a bios repair just in case that is indeed the root cause.

    I have in my possession :

    Raspberry PI 3
    Programming jigs for most formats

    The laptop is an apache GE60 2PC

    Mainboard ID is = MS-16GF1 VER 1.1

    Original BIOS chip markings :

    Q64-104HIP
    133N37A2
    1406TDA

    Can someone guide m in how to flash this chip please?

    What file do I need and where to get it
    What program to use via my PI to flash it

    Cheers
  • newtothis
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    • Mar 2013
    • 1556
    • england

    #2
    Re: Need some guidance please - APACHE GE60 2PC

    File i have from MSI site is a .52D file extension - How do I get this file ready for a direct flash?

    Cheers

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    • diif
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      • Feb 2014
      • 6978
      • England

      #3
      Re: Need some guidance please - APACHE GE60 2PC

      Just rename the extension to .bin

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      • newtothis
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        • Mar 2013
        • 1556
        • england

        #4
        Re: Need some guidance please - APACHE GE60 2PC

        Cheers diif,

        So from reading multiple sources I managed to create a jig for the bios chip and reflashed the chip using FlashRom on my PI

        Low and behold system is working

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        • newtothis
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          • Mar 2013
          • 1556
          • england

          #5
          Re: Need some guidance please - APACHE GE60 2PC

          OK issue

          Keyboard keys are all scrambled.. Works fine via external keyboard

          Wrong Bios revision?

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          • diif
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            • Feb 2014
            • 6978
            • England

            #6
            Re: Need some guidance please - APACHE GE60 2PC

            Nice work.
            Is it every key that is scrambled or just some ? Are they swapped about or do you get double letters ?

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            • newtothis
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              • Mar 2013
              • 1556
              • england

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              Re: Need some guidance please - APACHE GE60 2PC

              They are swapped about - some keys do nothing and others do what they are not supposed to do -

              For EG F12 is the down key
              J is enter

              etc

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              • newtothis
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                • Mar 2013
                • 1556
                • england

                #8
                Re: Need some guidance please - APACHE GE60 2PC

                OK update

                I flashed the other BIOS and the keyboard came to life - BUT - the system would no longer recognize any hard disks..

                So reflashed the other BIOS and again keyboard issue

                Plugged in a USB keyboard and went through installing windows so I could flash BIOS and EC through windows save me keep pulling the chip off the mainboard... Once windows had installed the keyboard worked fine - So guessed that windows had now took over with drivers and it must be the BIOS or EC being an issue....

                So decided to try the EC first and needed to reboot into the BIOS to find which revision I needed - Well the keyboard is working fine without doing anything else .. ODD!

                Anyway system is all working great now - Cheers for any help given

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                • diif
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                  • Feb 2014
                  • 6978
                  • England

                  #9
                  Re: Need some guidance please - APACHE GE60 2PC

                  Nice work, thanks for the update.

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