(08-23-2015, 08:34 AM)BDMaster Wrote: Error 286: Unable to write data to flash with SPI lock enabled.
This Bios is not rewritable without an SPI Programmer !
I am sorry !
Regards
If SPI lock is enabled, how are we able to use Lenovo's utility to flash from 1.04 to 1.05 and vice versa then?
So, then, it is impossible to get anything other than Win 8.1 on it because of lousy BIOS limitations, then? The system only has a 32 GB SSD, so I was trying to get XP installed to save some space on the drive (Win 8.1 takes ~10 GB, while XP can be pruned down to ~1 GB!). I did manage to get DOS 7.1 on it, and a dual Linux boot, by wiping out the GUID partitions entirely and going to FAT32 LBA.
It looks like there are no AHCI drivers which can be slipstreamed into an XP install with NLite, either. I guess the only option left for me is to return this garbage, stripped down, artificially limited Lenovo BIOS-locked piece of junk notebook. then? Unfortunately, I do not have an SPI programmer. I've spent hours on this to no avail. It's a Bay Trail socket 1170 chipset with Celeron N2850 chip
Thanks for your help all the same, and if you have any more insights as to how I might get XP installed on this system, please share. Maybe I would have better luck with a Braswell chipset?