On 2017-09-19 19:10, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > On 2017-09-18 04:02, Alexander Couzens wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the x230 is quite good working, >> ... but recently some boards died (I know from 2 boards over the last >> years). I'm still not sure why they died, but rumors that the EC >> firmware ran into a bug when doing In-Circuit flashing. >> >> I've an x230 myself and never managed to trigger that bug. I would >> recommend you to update the EC to the newest firmware. The EC firmware >> is updated together with the bios, so updating the vendor bios/uefi is >> enough. >> >> We can also desolder your spi chip, programm it and put it back. But >> that's also a way I wouldn't recommend doing to often. >> >> Best, >> lynxis >> >> >> > > Oh, finally I hear about this. I triggered this bug. The machine totally > died. Nothing, at least nothing like flashing the original bios or > flashing whatever, could bring it back. It's lying here as a brick. I > *did* flash using flashrom online while running Debian. > > I plan to get another X230 one day soon, but will only flash offline, > using my pomona clip :( > > Would be good to have the wiki updated and possibly a bug filed I guess...
What I want to add is: * This was a git checkout in June this year. * I flashed a coreboot image (I can't remember what config) fine, and used the laptop while everything (shutdown, suspend, reboot) worked. Maybe the config is irrelevant, whatever. * the machine didn't die "right after" or "during" flashrom-flashing. It ran fine for a while. I can't remember if it suspended to and resumed from RAM too, or even shutdown or reboot worked. IIRC after shutting down it died. I guess the first shutdown after flashing, but I'm really not sure at all. * I had upgraded the EC and BIOS to the latest Lenovo version before starting with coreboot. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
