Re: Toshiba HDTW230XS3CA 3TB external drive died

Thanks for the reply. I got some results, results that seem really weird to me.

I removed the controller board, plugged in cable and connected it to a USB port, nothing happened. Tested the voltage with my meter, leads between the port housing and the controller side of that fuse and the light on the controller board lit up right away and showed proper voltage. I thought it was weird that the controller board lit up just from testing the voltage. So I unplugged the board, then plugged it back in, no light. Tested the...

I had been using this hard drive for a while, and it worked fine only going back and forth between 3 computers.

Plugged it into an older computer that happened to have a really loose USB port. Light flashed once and died, never to be powered up again. Not sure if it's relevant that the USB port was loose.

Anyway, now it doesn't power up at all, it's been sitting on my desk for years and figured what the heck, nothing to lose as I'm not going to pay someone to fix it, maybe I can learn something from it.

Removed the case, figured I would look for anything...

Re: M710q Please my bios clean me

It seems that all the knock-off clips/clamps are generally junk, if I were doing this more than once I would get a Pomona clip. I got lucky with my el cheapo version, I actually bought a ch341a_spi kit that I ended up only using the clip from.
After reading this I had decided not to use it: [url]https://libreboot.org/docs/install/spi.html#do-not-use-ch341a[/url]
So many have had success with it though, so who knows, but I didn't want to risk it.

I ended up using a Raspberry Pi 3B to do the programming with the latest...

Re: M710q Please my bios clean me



Try using the latest version of flashrom, earlier versions didn't detect my chip properly....

Re: Please my bios clean me



Thank you for this. I have an m710q 10yc s00p00 motherboard v1.1 and read my bios chip(locked to Amzn)with a raspberry pi and a chip clip(generic pamona clip)@ 16,777,216 bytes. I tried to flash the bin from the Lenovo firmware package on their site and only got an error with flashrom.
Error: Image size (8388608 B) doesn't match the expected size (16777216 B)!

So I used the one in post #2, it kept failing to verify the image to the W25Q128.V chip but it did allow me to boot from a USB memory stick that I had set up...