MacBook 820-2213-A location of EFI SPI chip

[pfrcom]

My MacBook A1181 EMC 2139 bricked itself

Had it dual-booting Snow Leopard and MX Linux 19.3

Did a few Snow Leopard updates, culminating in EFI 1.1 update I think it was

Followed instructions to shut down from the update screen, then press & hold power button until the light started flashing and a tone sounded

Then it seemed to start the update OK, although progress bar was increasing at a glacial pace

So I left it going, and returned to find it booted into MX

Did a restart from MX, after which nothing - neither startup chime nor anything on the screen

Tried PRAM reset, also holding down power button again, to no avail - latter makes light start flashing, but then nothing

And Firmware Restoration CD 1.4 doesn't work - perhaps because the questionable DVD drive can't read a rewriteable CD

I can't even eject the CD by holding down trackpad button at power on - the MacBook starts without startup chime or anything on screen, and seems not to respond to the keyboard

So I reckon my only remaining option is rewrite firmware from a 2MB .FD file extracted from the restoration CD's dmg

But I can't find the EFI chip which I assume is a SOIC8

[piernov]

Re: MacBook 820-2213-A location of EFI SPI chip

U6301

[pfrcom]

Re: MacBook 820-2213-A location of EFI SPI chip

Merci beaucoup

Groan - underneath, no wonder I couldn't find it