Clevo BIOS Thread

okay i have a serious issue.

i tried to update my clevo style note p150em.
because i was having heat issues, and i wanted to have the option to do the full speed fans thing. problem was it froze mid flash.

and wasnt responding at all.

when i turned it back on, it used to power light on, dvd power up, and hdd brief check light then off, the keyboard lit purple.

i have a ch341a usb programmer, and i took backups using the flash software "afuwin is it?" but trying to restore resulted in nothing different, because they are combined.

so i ask someone, if they have a p150em, i dont care which rebrand/de-brand editon
and have the ability to seperately backup the ec chip and the bios chip to two seperate images. i would be terribly grateful.

ive asked eurocom, and they said they dont have raw images,

so im in desperate need of the file thats combined to be seperated or raw backups.

the software im using to write the nands/flash chips is: CH341A PROGRAMMER V 1.18 from SkyGz
and i have the soic 8 adapter to match. (this was bought after it wasnt booting)

thanks for your time.

 

The standard bios files available for download will work for recovery via your chip programmer.

I've tested this on my previously bricked p375sm (flashed modded bios that had no CPU microcode). After flashing a standard bios the machine is fine.

Download links for your machine are here :
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-bios-older-models-released-in-after-2012.740492/

 

I've been doing some trying for a while, and when I flash these directly via the flash tool before I begin it says (anything that's outside the size of the chips regions will be ignored)
They both still program, but no joy at all.

I'm grateful your help,
I wander, how did u flash the dead unit?

 

I used an soic8 clip along with a raspberry pi 4 and these instructions:
https://www.rototron.info/recover-bricked-bios-using-flashrom-on-a-raspberry-pi/

However I did not get the size warning.

Whats the size of the bios you are trying to flash and what size is the corrupt bios you dumped from the chip?

The bios chip should have some markings on it to confirm it's capacity also.

 

Ec is 4MB
Bios I think is 2MB
Ill check again when I get home from work

Bios mx25l1606e
Ec mx25l3206e

 

Ok, a mod by the username of @t456 made a post that should make everything clear for you here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/request-p170em-bios-in-bin-format.790548/

You can also try using his file because a p170em bios should work fine on the p150em board.

My understanding is that in your case, the larger 4MB chip is the bios. The 2MB chip is actually the intel ME chip.
I am unsure about where the 64KB of EC lives.

I would start by flashing the 4MB bios file to the 4MB chip, if no luck then do the same with the 2MB ME file onto the 2MB chip and go from there.

 

This could be the issue.

I've seen that link, and have downloaded it to my phone, if I get time later when home from work, I'll try them out
That thread is seeming like I have no permission to post there too, as the last post a chap from Greece says he has files for a P150em in the format for those 170 types, so I might be posts too little to pm the guy heh


I want to thank you for your help

You have been most helpful and informative.

 

Keep us updated on how you go, once you get good at recovery you can try modding the ME firmware for a bit of fun:
https://www.techinferno.com/index.p...e-overclocking-on-all-6-and-7-series-laptops/

 

Hello,

Does anyone can share EC: 1.06.06 for P751DM2-G? Thanks!

 

Brick Bios p775dm3 ?

I fight with my laptop i want downgrade to orginal bios 1.06.11. GPU bios is desnake. After flash bios from USB. I have information 100% Succes, restart laptop and i have this problem like on film brick bios or more bad information ?

 

Sounds like it most likely. It's usually fairly dangerous to go back BIOS versions.

 

Hmmmm so i need reprogram bios on programer ?I afraid to destroy the motherboard.

 

If you are going to flash the bios manually , try using a SOP8 clip and leave the bios chip on the board (often there is no reason to desolder the bios chip).


You wont destroy the board if you just take your time to carefully take the machine apart to reach the bios chip. If you get stuck at some point better to post here rather than force anything.

Before you recover via that method, try removing the CMOS battery for a while. Also try recovery via the FN+B method.

And if you have an older mxm GPU on hand you could try installing that in case it's a vbios incompatibility.

You can also try turning it on with only 1 stick of ram.

 

Next time read the instructions properly!

You should have taken out the battery and once the BIOS flash was finished, pull out the power cable and plug it back and boot the machine! Now you need to flash the BIOS with a SPI programmer such as Minipro TL866II Plus

 

I have a problem with my p775dm3g after upload bios from dsake to orginal 1.06.11. Yep I make mistake and I reflash the bios with battery, bios flash, after information flash succes i put the power button for sec. Laptop off. I Turn On and he dont start. I film what happend now.

This is brick bios ? Or motherboard is damage ?

 

Ok but Where is the bios chip ? Near Keyboard. Fn+B dont give reasult.

 

If you look at page 11, the bios chip is likely one of the 8-pin chips either close to your keyboard connector or near the WLAN card connector.
Can't be sure unless you take the motherboard out and read the part numbers from both chips.

https://mega.nz/#!TN9U3JSB!QDAFK0utnLt4EeIgmU4Wul4N22e_M1vhepMqCkEmqsk

Also another quick test (unlikely to work but worth a try) is holding Fn + D for 20 seconds as you turn the machine on.

 

Fn + D nothing reasults. The bios chip is under plate near wlan so i need dessambly all laptop its No problem. I dont have problem if I dont make backup the orginal bios ?

 

Worth taking a dump of what you have on the chip now.

Are you flashing back to the dsanke bios once the motherboard is out?

 

Yep because i have dsake bios on nvidia chip nów and put I7 8700K. But I will have good programer on Monday.

 

If I get bios get on programator from dsake automaticly EC Update or not ?

 

Nothing I put on programator bios from dsake. Non resault. I will try program oryginal bios EC and Bios Card oryginal from p775dm3G

I need the oryginał bios nvidia 1080 from p775dm3G on BIN format not Rom

 

Just change the extension.
Yes it's all you have to do..

 

Nothing again problem this same. This problem is when i put cpu without cpu gpu/non gpu ram/non ram ...

 

I have a old dump you can try: https://mega.nz/file/OJoUiKyZ#gUJiR_z8e3ns8NXS8mf7ZNrzYYSGtrYHrgB-2YIZr9g
Made it before flashing dsanke BIOS and updating the vBios. Give it a try
Beware that this is the g-sync vBios. If your 1080 doesn't have g-sync, it might not work

 

Link is incorrect

But i flash orginaln Clevo bios and EC this same problem

 

https://mega.nz/file/OJoUiKyZ#gUJiR_z8e3ns8NXS8mf7ZNrzYYSGtrYHrgB-2YIZr9g

Edited the link above to match this one

 

This same reasult ...

 

What are you using to flash the bios onto the chip?

Can you post the output or log after you flash the bios chip and the 1080 vbios?

 

I flash oryginal vbios and EC and Bios. Nothis still runa like on my film.

i need board view my motherboard p775dm3g.

I was looking for a short circuit on the board, but nothing the charger gives you voltage

One fan run near GPU on one second and restart

Guys can we give mi oryginał oryginał KBC file EC And BIOS ? I must buy new chip

When I flash dsake bios automaticly flash kbc and EC ?

 

Ask in the proper thread....
Official Coffee Lake Refresh Thread/BIOS for ALL Clevo Laptops - RTX CARDS NOW SUPPORTED

 

XMG A517 / Clevo N850HP6

I hope somebody here can help me with this. I attempted to update my BIOS using firmware directly from the manufacturer’s website, but something went wrong and now it won’t POST. It’s boots to a black, blank screen and the fans go, but I can’t get anything to appear on the display. It also beeps 35 times after a couple of minutes.

I used Rufus to create a USB boot-drive and put both folders for the main firmware and the EC/KBC firmware.

I had disabled UEFI and changed the boot order. When in DOS I started with flashing the EC firmware and I believe I ran ECflash.bat. It went to update as expected and the version numbers were fine. It then shut down and I manually switched it back on, since it didn’t reboot. This is where I’m at now.

What I’ve tried:
- Removing the CMOS battery to reset BIOS settings to default - however only for like 10m.

- Many button/key combinations like Win+B, Win+V, Win+D, Fn+B, Ctrl+Esc (while holding the power button, like explained). Only the last two seemed to stop the beeping from happening.

- Loading the EFI Shell BIOS tool onto the boot drive, again downloaded from the manufacturer’s site.

- Combining all three folders instead of having three extracted .zips in separate folders.


I noticed in this thread that I maybe should try creating a .bat file ‘AUTOAFUF.exe’, but with the model number for my computer in. I’m not sure what that would be though, as it has a number on the and the 0 is replaced with an x. N85xHP6.(number)?

Any advice on what I can try to get it working again? I’ve been following some guides for other models in this thread, but I’m not sure what to do.

 

Honestly at that point you are left with this option:

https://www.win-raid.com/t4287f16-G...H-A-SPI-Programmer-Flasher-With-Pictures.html

 

Question Bios Clevo P751TM1-G :

I have skypro III , and need to dump Bios , chip is GigaDevice 8Mb , recognized correctly , but Read not work , error read fail... motherboard is naked without CMOS..
Bios is Eurocom unlocked , have a protection read chip ?
Afuwin save Bios but size is 6,154 kb... original Bios on clevo.com is 8,192 kb
Whit Eurocom Tornado F5 , Bios unlocked , Winboand chip don't have this problem.. dump correctly ..

Any idea ?

Thanks

 

Have you tried re-seating the clip onto the bios chip several times?
Sometimes it's just a poor connection.

 

Yes tried re-seating Pomona test clip , but same error..

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Remove the chip from the motherboard, never had good results reading or writting into flash chips while still soldered into the motherboard, and you are back feeding 3.3v into lots of other chips/parts of the motherboard.

 

Yes correct, reading chips on motherboards is very hit and miss it doesn't always work, because of the high density of components degrading the signal when reading/writing.

sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

But with Tornado F5 working, dump BIOS, flashing without problems.

Afuwin save Bios but size is 6,154 kb...
EFI tool same...
It's not safe to flashing..

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My MSI bios was locked on the board for in place programming for example (leg grounded).

 

Ok, thanks for your reply, tried to desoldering chip and reading it.

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Please,
I need to undervolt my Santech C57 (Clevo P65XHP) , how could I found a modded bios?
Thanks for all

 

Hy,
I have found "Release BIOS Version 1.05.12" for my Clevo P65xHP on https://repo.palkeo.com/clevo-mirror/ .
Is this correct for my laptop?

 

Yes, but also upgrade the EC. So update to the latest EC first, then the BIOS.

 

I hoping to find the prema bios for a p375sm or is there any unlocked bios for this that anyone can point me to. I'm willing to pay for it at this point to be honest

 

Which bios version specifically do you want, V 1.03.03?

And what options would you like to unlock?

While it's fairly easy to do, it's time consuming depending on how many options you want to enable.

You simply need AMIBCP V4.55 found here:
https://forums.tweaktown.com/gigaby...system-info-benchmarking-stability-tools.html

Then you can follow the steps below (quoted from
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...otential-to-unlock-all-hidden-options.830993/):

 

While this is awesome prema also included fixes to the bios that enable video card to work. A 1070 mxm specifically.

 

What is EC?
Thanks

 

I'd imagine others also know how to do that, likely someone from the win-raid forums.

I imagine it's related to this:
https://www.win-raid.com/t892f16-AMD-and-Nvidia-GOP-update-No-requests-DIY.html

 

This is EC, it's another part of the system BIOS. The system BIOS on Clevo laptops has EC and BIOS.

 

Hi.

Where I can find latest BIOS for Sagem NP8170 (P170HM)? Current version is 1.01.07.