Re: [coreboot] Postcode at Lenovo x230

[Elisenda Cuadros]

Hi Rafael,

I have a X230, but this has never happened to me before. Sorry :-( .

Have you tried unplugging, waiting 10 seconds and plugging the CMOS 
battery cable and trying to boot afterwards?

Also disconnect the laptop battery during this procedure.

Regards,

- Eli

On 16/02/18 13:03, Rafael Machado wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Since here are the most skilled professions I've seeing I believe 
> someone can help me.
>
> I have a Lenovo x230, and I'll would like to install coreboot in it to 
> start to understand how it works, and in future start to help the 
> community, as soon as I have the knowledge for that.
>
> Last week I did a test that makes my progress stop.
>
> Just for fun, and to check how the commercial bios works, I connected 
> a postcard on the wireless slot (as far as I know this is a pcie slot).
> I already did that with other notebooks I have and nothing wrong happened.
>
> The problem is that this time, with this x230, after I connected the 
> postcard and turned the system on, the system stopped to boot. And the 
> post card does not stop at a specific post code.
> What happens now, is that every time I turn the system on, the battery 
> led blinks 3 times, being two blinks followed by a 1 second stop and 
> after that the last blink, and the system reboots.
>
> The post card I'm using is this: 
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/3in1-Mini-PCI-E-PCI-LPC-Tester-PC-Desktop-Diagnosti...
>
> So my questions are:
>
> -Does someone believe this postcard could have bricked the system? (Why?)
> -Any idea about how to solve that?
>
> My next test will be to write a coreboot build at this system using 
> buspirate, but since I'll only have time for this next week, I would 
> like to have some things to think about, this is why I sent this 
> e-mail before doing the coreboot flash test.
>
> Any comment will be helpful.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Rafael R. Machado

Postcode at Lenovo x230

[Rafael Machado]

Hi Eli

Thanks for the answer.

In fact I already tried this, but didn't work.
What I am afraid is the possibility of having bricked the system by using
the postcode at the wireless card slot.
Any idea if this could have happened?

Thanks
Rafael

Em sex, 16 de fev de 2018 às 16:18, Elisenda Cuadros 
escreveu:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> I have a X230, but this has never happened to me before. Sorry :-( .
>
> Have you tried unplugging, waiting 10 seconds and plugging the CMOS
> battery cable and trying to boot afterwards?
>
> Also disconnect the laptop battery during this procedure.
>
> Regards,
> Eli
>
> On 16/02/18 13:03, Rafael Machado wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> Since here are the most skilled professions I've seeing I believe someone
> can help me.
>
> I have a Lenovo x230, and I'll would like to install coreboot in it to
> start to understand how it works, and in future start to help the
> community, as soon as I have the knowledge for that.
>
> Last week I did a test that makes my progress stop.
>
> Just for fun, and to check how the commercial bios works, I connected a
> postcard on the wireless slot (as far as I know this is a pcie slot).
> I already did that with other notebooks I have and nothing wrong happened.
>
> The problem is that this time, with this x230, after I connected the
> postcard and turned the system on, the system stopped to boot. And the post
> card does not stop at a specific post code.
> What happens now, is that every time I turn the system on, the battery led
> blinks 3 times, being two blinks followed by a 1 second stop and after that
> the last blink, and the system reboots.
>
> The post card I'm using is this:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/3in1-Mini-PCI-E-PCI-LPC-Tester-PC-Desktop-Diagnosti...
>
> So my questions are:
>
> -Does someone believe this postcard could have bricked the system? (Why?)
> -Any idea about how to solve that?
>
> My next test will be to write a coreboot build at this system using
> buspirate, but since I'll only have time for this next week, I would like
> to have some things to think about, this is why I sent this e-mail before
> doing the coreboot flash test.
>
> Any comment will be helpful.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Rafael R. Machado