Re: Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen1 (20FR) BIOS corrupt question

Managed to get this fixed and tying this message from the X1 Yoga

Sharing the steps I went through in case this can help someone

Tried the following things:
- Re-flashed he original backup, hoping this could fix something -> No change
- Flashed a BIOS dump which was patched with auto-patcher for the same model -> Managed to get something to display on the screen
- After a few attempts, I managed to get into the BIOS and to go through the steps to reset the supervisor password!...

Re: Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen1 (20FR) BIOS corrupt question

Received the CH341A in the meanwhile and was able to take a backup
(3 attempts which have the same checksum).

Is there anyone who could have a look what might be wrong with the contents?

Thanks!...

Hi all,

I have a Thinkpad X1 yoga (1st gen 20FR). I bought the device recently on an auction. All was working fine but I noticed that there was a supervisor password on the BIOS.

After reading online (unfortunately not too well), I read that I could short the SCL and SDA pin while the laptop was booting, in order to remove that password. I tried this a few times without success. The last attempt, I must've done something wrong (my guess is that I shorted pin 6 and 7 or maybe even 8).

Now my device is in the state where it doesn't show anything on the...

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Hi all, I'm Jens, living in Belgium, and have a long-time passion for everything that has to do with technology and IT. I have had this interest for as long as I can remember and even as a small child I was already fascinated by everything that had in one or another way some electrical wires. The hands-on started with breaking stuff and eventually I managed to put things back together (most of the time).

Since the “usual” stuff couldn’t keep me excited anymore, I developed an extra interest in platforms...