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11-18-2022, 04:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-18-2022, 04:18 PM by bob7224.)
@dudu2002
Would you or someone give me a steer about my E530 Lenovo. I see several members have had great success. I downloaded one of their bin files a few posts above to get an idea of what to do. I KNOW those files are NOT for my E530, just viewing them for learning sake. Like most here I ONLY want to remove the crappy whitelist so I can use any wifi card I want with my E530. I have been looking at some mini-PCIe 6E cards even. For now while I continue looking, my first step is to remove the whitelist blockage.
I just received my ch341a programmer today. BTW -- all my machines use Debian 11 bare metal, but I also use VM's. I removed Windows from my E530 years ago. Linux all the way!! Therefore I plan to use flashrom because it works slick with linux bare metal, unless you tell me that is a bad idea.
Observation: I downloaded some motherboard pics for the E530 and it appears to have an eeprom with two flash memories next to it. The programmer clip will likely attach easily to the eeprom but it seems small to attach to the larger memories. I have read posts where you say to get the "full dump" but I am unclear as to how to do that or even what they would be other than reading the eeprom and saving the contents. I am familiar with the basic flashrom terminal commands and I know how to do sha256sums for verification along the way. Also I have watched youtube videos and feel like I can handle the laptop disassembly to the point where I can see the chips. I haven't done that yet because I am determining if this project is in my "wheel house" before creating a brick, LOL!
I will be using a ThinkCentre Desktop running Deb 11 to read the E530 bios from its board.
I have read you post many times----- > "I need your file dump". How do I do that on this E530 regarding multiple chips on the motherboard? Regarding the ch341a programmer, will I be using the 25 spi slot or the 24 eeprom to connect the cabling to the programmer on the E530.
Lenovo E530
UEFI Bios HOET98WW
Machine type 62724GU
UEFI Secure Boot Off
UEFI/Legacy Boot ----- Legacy only
Installed memory 8192 MB
ps ---- sendspace/cloudfare hate my network. Mediafire works like a charm on my end just in case files need to be sent back and forth.