On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 08:40:58PM +0100, Björn Tantau wrote:
>
> Reverse engineering seems to be the only option left. Unfortunately
> I'm not well versed in these arcane arts. ;-)
I held a talk about this in 2010 at FOSDEM.
Here is the pdf of it:
https://people.freedesktop.org/~libv/flash_en
Internal flashing does not work on all the board, you may have to
tear down your computer and directly attach some test clip to a BIOS chip
(e.g. SOIC8 test clip if your BIOS chip is SOIC8 format) or if your BIOS chip
has a weird format for which no test clip exists, desolder it from your board
and
Is it possible for you to tear down your computer and directly attach
some test clip
to a BIOS chip (e.g. SOIC8 test clip if your BIOS chip is SOIC8 format) ?
That will bypass the write protection and no soldering is required. However,
if your BIOS chip has a weird format for which no test clip exi
