Lenovo x1 nano gen 1 -- bricked -- where to flash the bios/fw

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  • Nicola Bianchi
    Member
    • Jan 2025
    • 15
    • Switzerland

    #21
    Originally posted by kmorin

    Hi Nicola! I ran into the exact same issue as you, so I have ordered a programmer and will try to flash the bios firmware you attached. I'm just curious as to where you got this firmware from...
    Hi!
    I downloaded it from another thread in this forum, but I don't remember exactly from which one.
    The one posted previously by some gentleman in this thread was not working for me.

    Good luck.
    Cheers

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    • nubie
      Senior Member
      • May 2010
      • 64

      #22
      Originally posted by Nicola Bianchi
      For the records, I managed to recover my X1 Nano using the attached bios firmware using flashrom
      sudo ./flashrom/builddir/flashrom --programmer ch341a_spi -c W25Q256JV_Q -w X1_Nano_Gen_1_Laptop_ThinkPad_-_Type_20UN.bin

      Thank you for the support!
      Cheers
      Thank you again. I rescued my X1 Nano today. I had to hot air the BIOS chip off and solder it to a CH341A (underneath on the SOIC8 pads), and it fought me still.

      I erased it, then tried to program and instant verify fail. So I turned off Verify in the top menus (ASProgrammer 2.02). Then programmed it and read it back, it was still a fail, but I wrote it again and then the CRC-32 matched the one 7-Zip showed for the BIOS .bin file

      (I used the read button and it gives the CRC-32 in the log window of ASProgrammer when it finishes, takes ~10 mins!).

      Cheers

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