How to use a BIOS flasher w/ Test clip to flash BIOS and EEPROM chips in Linux & Windows
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2018
- Fixed audio version of this video can be found @ • Remastered: How to use... (thanks to RUclipsr Mass Killer for fixing it up)
This video walks through assembly of a CH341a SPI BIOS 25xx/24xx series USB programmer with a SOIC8 SOP8 Test clip for solderless reading and writing to flashable IC chips.
This techinque is useful when you have a device with a BIOS that you need to modify, but the device itself does not allow flashing while powered on... i.e. an AMD Ryzen board that doesn't boot, corrupt video card bios (counterfit crashing Nvidia video cards) or a motherboard BIOS with write protection that you'd like to modify (whitelist removal on Lenovo laptops) or a dead TV motherboard that has a messed up bios.
We cover correctly setting up everything, reading flash contents with flashrom on Linux and CH341 programmer software on Windows.
Use at your own risk, if you accidentally erased the contents of your device's flash... you'll need to find a copy of that data from the internet or another working device to get it going again. 
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Fixed audio version of this video can be found @ ruclips.net/video/OttN8wQ1HhE/видео.html (thanks to RUclipsr Mass Killer for fixing it up); please go watch that one instead as the audio is much clearer. This video remains up as an archive of comments made prior to that one. Cheers.
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Sound is very low, otherwise, very helpful!
extreme low, maxed out booth volumes (YT+Widows) still so low i had to download and CSI enhance the volume xD
Thanks bud most helpful, about to pick one of these up, always useful to have instructions, thanks.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!! I wasted a couple of hours looking around, and your explanation was the best. In my case I was connecting the chip in the wrong way.
Thank you so much for taking the time to upload this video!
Thanks for taking the time to explain this process. Very thorough!
Apart from the audio volume being very low, this is a REALLY useful run-through and i thank you VERY much indeed for your help. I just hope i can use mine successfully, now. Thanks again!
Good hunting! 😎
englishrupe01 I concur the audio volume is way too low , otherwise flawless video
deftdawg I also replied about audio being low , otherwise perfect video. I've got all the stuff and was also wondering orientation etc. Thanks I'm gonna try and fix a stb bios. Re audio you could just up the level in a AV editor and reup or up a V2 louder
Thank you very much! This video is exactly what I needed. It also confirms that this programmer works on Linux as well. You saved my day. I cannot thank you enough!
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The programmer works better on Linux than on windows!
This was EXTREMELY helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time to create this video!
Thanks, your video helped me get started with the CH341a kit and I have now unbricked my lenovo motherboard. One thing that was different on mine is that I didn't have to wait for the second light to come on before flashrom would work. I was trying for ages to get that second light to come up and sometimes I got a flicker but it never stayed on. After about 30 minutes of messing around I decided to try flashrom anyway and it worked fine. The second light came on while flashrom was working but then off again when the read / write procedure was done
you saved me hours and of time in figuring out the programmer and software .saved me days instead of returning my mobo
That was very informative. Thank you very much for sharing!
Awesome thorough explanation, Deftdawg! Thank You :D
Great video, man. Thank you!
Hey brother thank you so much for posting this video! I was able to re-flash my bricked RX 480 by following your instructions. It works perfectly now thanks to you!!!
Great video , great advice!!!!!! u rock. I saved well over a 100 bucks on buying a new RX 480 ! and i was already looking for one since i bricked my own. all good now !!!!
This is very interesting, I'm going to pick these up and see what I can break. lol
Hey, buddy, you don't break, you modify as per your needs ;) Cheers!
Super helpful! Had to flash a bios on a mainboard because it came with an older version that did not support my newer CPU.
Thank you for this video! I just resurrected my dead Lenovo 330S 15-ARR which has known bricking issues. I'll be doing a tutorial for that specific laptop soon for anyone else stuck with the same issue.
Thank you for this very in-depth explanation. Exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you for making this awesome video, helped me out a lot :)
Really helpful! Don't know how long this would have taken me without the video.
But really good informative video with all the info i needed for what I wanted to do =)
This was extremely helpful! Thanks for making this. My little Lenovo x220 has hope! :)
Hey man did your lenovo x220 got fixed
@@satyampanchal4741 Yes, it's working once again. Thanks for this video! It was very helpful.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Very good explanation, excellent video. Thanks.
This was very helpful, thank you very much for your time.
Nice.
More recent versions have that adapter board and pins readily assembled.
Thanks for the part at the start .. I’ve ordered one and will hopefully bring a shuttle xps mini pc back to life
Very useful video. you have earned a subscriber :D
Thank you for this video! Well explained tutorial that answered a lot of my questions. When my programmer arrives I am hoping I'll be able to fix the corrupt BIOS on a Lenovo G50 laptop!
@Suresh Kumar I don't use WhatsApp. But yes, it worked fine for me and I was able to recover the laptop.
Thank you for this video, very informative
Great video, thanks!!!
6:38 There isn't a dot on the chip, but it's clearly printed on the board, and even if it wasn't, given the other chips orientations and the pin1 position of those, it's clear that the same pin would be pin1.
Even in a worse case scenario, where there is no markings at all, it's a safe bet that, the chip will be oriented in the same order as all the other chips on the board, it's a bad designing practice to have chips oriented in different directions all over the place. imo.
Great video thank you!
Thanks a lot for the instructions. Will be cracking open my PH317-51 soon enough. Just ordered my clip and programmer set. :D
how did it go
im using im doin it on windows and i cant write
my computer runs linux though so if you could tell me how u wrote to it with flashrom it would be great
you are a life saver! Just fixed my flashchip by reading your guide!! thank you mate!
there's remaster of this video on my channel with the audio fixed in case you have trouble with this one.
Who would thumb down this video?
The whole tutorial is so easy to follow,a cave man can do it
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Thanks for the support. They have a point about the audio level being too low, unfortunately RUclips doesn't have a way to boost them post-upload.
I appreciate it man. Very helpful👍👍
Awesome information! Thanks so much
This tutorial is hopefully gonna save my Acer laptopl! Thanks !✌️✌️
Thanks! With the help of this video and a Kali virtual box I was able to flash my drives.
Hello, thanks to your video! I have a problem when connecting it to my np300e4c bios the CH341a turns off. Do i need it de-soldered?
fantastic, subscribed!
sounds cheaper then buying a bios replacement for a bad flashed motherboard. thanks, amazing guide
I was able to work out how to reprogram the maxon SL70, SP140U and Sp2880 series handheld 2-way radios with this. Also the SM4000 series mobile radios an a couple of old GE Phoenix and MLS mobile radios. This thing is quite versitile but modifying the raw data is kinda adventurous though.
Thanks for making this. Had a bios screw up when I attempted to remove the power on password. I should be able to redo it now. Thanks.
Did it work?? i have a a320m s2h am4 motherboard and i bricked it pls help
@@skmajin2922 haven't gotten the flasher yet but I will give it a shot.
There's actually a little triangle with a dot in it which shows you where pin1 is on the cable.
Thanks so much. I'm trying to do this with a SPI-programmer+SOIC8 apparently & need to know how to do it for a Lenovo Ideapad 110-15ACL.
Thx great video only your audio is so low that when I go bavk to tv it wakes up the.... could you please put it into a editor and increase the volume then may be reupload it as a louder Audi version? For those of us using a TV or other devices this would be helpful, it's all because the video audio is too low to get what should be level 5 on other videos , I've gotta turn yours up to max
Great video thanks
Wow!!! Best explained video that i had ever seen!!! Thank you!!! And sorry for resurecting and old thread!!!
Great tutorial, buddy! I've got the same ch341a programmer, I know where to start from, but just wanted to confirm, other hackers have used it successfully. Thanks!
Good video! Can you tell me if this CH341A can read/write AT93c56 eeproms?
Great video there. Would you be able to use that on a GMK Nucbox?
well, I guess it's time to resurrect my old mobo, thanks for the info!
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Thank you for sharing such beneficial information it was a real helpful you have my 1 million likes
To do this on MacOS, "brew install flashrom" and instead of lsusb, use "system_profiler SPUSBDataType". Should otherwise work fine.
Here is what I got for the USB information:
Vendor-Specific Device:
Product ID: 0x5512
Vendor ID: 0x1a86
Version: 3.04
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Location ID: 0xfa141000 / 8
Current Available (mA): 500
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0
Can you please help me, when I connect the clip on the chip the light turn of, reclipping it doesn't seem te work, what can I do?
Awesome video mate! Really appreciate the detail. I'm looking to buy the same kit you're using. Is it likely to be compatible with most laptop bios chips?
im loving the scraping noise off the card lol. i am going to flash some modded bios on my hp z420 desktop motherboard are the bios chips the same size on my board?
Very informative. Thank you ! 🤔
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Question: Lenovo Thinkstation C30 (type 1136) Intel C602 chipset (rev. 06) Bios (UEFI) A3KT30US; Can a BIOS be re-written to enable M.2 slot for NVMe boot? (M.2 slot is tied to PCIe?) Altenatively, PCIe x4 adapter for NVMe SSD.
AFAIK, machine cannot currently boot from PCIe
hey does anyone know which version of ch341a programmer supports issi IS25WQ040 eeprom. as the version from above video doesnt have this listed.
I'm trying to flash my MX25U4033E (Macronix chip) BIOS on a bricked 1080 Ti. The CH341A Programmer software doesn't have it listed. Idk what to do.
What to do if the bios file have a .bss extension instead of .bin? is for a biostar tb250btc ver.6.0
I have a few Planar LCD monitors , one of the eeprom chips is messed up or something cause i cant get it out of lock out mode, could i copy a clean EEPROM set over from a working one to a bad one with this method?
Thanks, I am new to this and extremely paranoid. I tried this before a year or so ago (before I found your video) and tried to read a SOP16 chip with some strange clip thing I got off ebay, and I am pretty sure that bricked the motherboard (don't worry it was a spare). Now I am trying to read random SOIC8 things before reading data off my thinkpad (I don't have a spare motherboard unfortunately), but all of them say Unknown Chip, 0KB. Not sure if I damaged my flasher with the previous shit I did, or if the things I am reading from are just the wrong chips. They all had a dot and 8 pins in total...
At the very least, I haven't bricked anything yet. Question: Provided I am trying to read 8-pin chips, using 8-pin clips and I insert the clip correctly, it shouldn't be possible for me to brick a device right?
I don't understand why the second LED says OK to the chip connection and, at the same time, the error message. I've reclipped several times the EEPROM, but the error still persists in HP Probook 6460b.
Thank you !!! very helpful video
Thanks. I have 2 Atmel devices I want to flash right away
can i download the bios for my mother board from the manufactures website and load the bios to the chip or do i have to get the bios the manufacture gets it from if so how do i go about it and get the right bios for my board
Helped a lot, I got a bricked motherboard (my fault) and Im gonna try to revive it.
hi great video can i read the info off a eeprom chip from my bsi
Link on where can i get this kit?
Will this work to update desktop motherboard Bios? Couse my Ryzen 3 2200g APU won't post couse it doesn't have the latest bios. This could be my only solution.
I have a problem: after connecting, "run" diode flashes for a tiny while, or not at all. I can't connect it
Can I use this flasher to program a 25L3206E eeprom? Thanks!
Is there a test clip that can connect to the Winbond 25q64fwig chip? I tried the CH341 reader, but it can't connect to the pins on that chip. The pins are really small and are not exposed like the standard SOIC8 chips.
Could anyone help me please with the drivers? Can't seem to get flashrom 1.1 to detect the chip. "Unknown SPI chip (RDID)"
thanks for the video.
I wanna use this on my laptop I need to flash gpu vbios back to stock..but I dont know if the vbios and latop bios are on the same chip or separate for my laptop motherboard.
thanks dawg
Great video, I wanna know whether I can program an in circuit pic12f629 microcontroller using the methods shown in this video with pickit 3 and the test clip or I'll have to use the breadboard with the other two tools ? thanks.
belal mondeo if the controller can program it and you can clip it, then I don't see why you wouldn't be able to.... Just try reading first, if you can read, you should be able to write too.
I've read on some fourm that it can be clipped, what I'm saying is using both the pickit 2/3 and pic programming adapter in addition to the test clip and whether it's possible or not ? thanks a bunch !
A god video but the audio is very less
Sorry im new to this, you might have said this in the video but what is the difference between 25 series and 24 series BIOS Chips? By the way im trying to flash a laptop bios
Thanks a bunch liked subbed
Do you know if this will read EPROM's of SRS units?
i think i love you (going to check if this motherboard works again in a sec) lol
You are the man! Good job...I souscribe
Im trying to use this USB programmer for my motherboard but I cannot find the mx25u12873f from MXIC chip what do I do?
Hello, is it possible to have more than 1 wire in an hole im trying to buy an BIOS flasher so i can disable the Intel me
I flash a wr841nd v8 router, and both uboot and the firmware can’t modify its contents for some reason, flashed and reflashed with different firmwares(openwrt and tp link), still, the chip behaves as if it’s write protected...
Debian 10, flashrom from debian, tried flashrom 1.1 too, ch341a programmer
Any ideas?
can that be done to motherboards with this same blue PCB? My AsProgrammer software is not finding the miniprogrammer
Hi deftdawg I just purchased this device, can you please help me, I've been looking everywhere on the motherboard & nothing reads about which is the bios chip on the motherboard. I have a Asus rog strix B350-f gaming motherboard. I cannot find anything to pin point which bios chip it is? Great video very well detailed thank you 😀✌️😀
did you get it working?
Thanks for a useful video. 👌👌 I have a question. I have this tool and I used to flash successfully my dell 3521 motjerbiaed bios chip. I also used this tool as serial to flash my tplink router through windows. My seagate harddosk recently crashed and ut seems like a bios problem. So can I use it to flash the bios chip on Seagate hard disk bios chip or shall I use it as a serial port and connect it to hard disk serial pins? Will it work? I have a seperate bios file for my hard disk as well. I am also confused about the commands to be used as I am gonna use windows utility to flash. 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks bro 👊👌
will it work on a macbook air chip ? i checked the list and it says its compatible but im not sure
good day from where you get the software
Sir, what are the symptoms of "failed" EEPROM chips on an LED TV board, IBM Thinkpad laptop and an automotive ECUs?
Pls reply sir, is this will work with am4 bios?
Can you please provide a link to the hardware you are using? Or any info at all? part numbers maybe
Thank you very match 🙋♂️