The file successfully flashed, but the system refuses to turn on still. The power button blinks 3 times when connected to AC, but does nothing when pressed. No lights on the keyboard, etc. I suspect there is damage elsewhere on the board, and I'm not too sure where to start looking!

Interestingly enough, the system behaves slightly differently when the BIOS is erased (using flashrom --erase), with an orange AC light, a lit up ESC, and a lit up power button which go away shortly after. When the BIOS is flashed again, the behavior returns to no power....

Sorry about that.

S/N: PC148LC3
Motherboard FRU: 02HL854

I did, even though there should be no supervisor password. It rendered the machine completely unresponsive....

Hey!

I have a ThinkPad T480s, type 20L7-0026US, and it has the musical code for 0285: "TCG-compliant functionality-related error." After some research, it seems the BIOS could be corrupted and at fault. If my attached BIOS could be repaired, or someone could drop a good working BIOS, I'd appreciate it!...

Hey! I'm a computer science student in the United States with a strange amount of hardware issues.