X230 “compatible but unsupported”

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LiveUSB Bootable exploit chain to unlock all features of xx30 ThinkPad machines. WiFi Whitelist, Advanced Menu, Overclocking.

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X230 “compatible but unsupported” #64

Open ajbritain4 opened 3 years ago

ajbritain4 commented 3 years ago

Hey, having some issues flashing my X230 with this. The machine is running BIOS 2.60, EC 1.3. Have run 1vyprep before attempting the jailbreak.

The following are the result of attempting the BIOS mod on this machine - the results of the exploit are:

BIOS: G2ETA0WW Version: 2.60 Flash size: 12288

Today the text in the first screenshot is giving the additional message “Warning: Can’t autodetect IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad X230, DMI info unavailable”

8200A353-F2CE-4B0E-AA3F-0C6965D840CD

CC4A3824-A20A-4392-8058-A112EDB7D233

Thanks!

digmorepaka commented 3 years ago

Could you post the output of dmidecode -t system?

ajbritain4 commented 3 years ago

Yes certainly - here you go:

F47B8820-0D18-4445-B199-8F8A7B5A117F 485EE908-A8B1-47CE-AA35-9B0D9D0494DE

Thanks!

digmorepaka commented 3 years ago

I see what's the problem. Your SMBIOS tables are kinda screwed up. 1vyrain expects "ThinkPad [Model]" in the Family line, you don't have that there. This is the first time ive seen a report of this so it is probably isolated. You can flash manually with the following chain of commands after it says that it is compatible:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/pad bs=1M count=8
cat /tmp/pad /root/bios/X230.rom > /tmp/12M.rom

/root/flashrom/flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -w /tmp/12M.rom --ifd -i bios -N

ajbritain4 commented 3 years ago

Perfect thank you for looking into it - that’s worked absolutely fine! Thanks so much

ajbritain4 commented 3 years ago

Hi - just reopened this again as I am looking to flash with the LVDS patch this time around but the SMBIOS tables still seem to be incorrect. Are you able to advise on a way to flash with the LVDS patch by command line as above? Thanks!

digmorepaka commented 3 years ago

Same command but the rom is X330.rom.

ajbritain4 commented 3 years ago

D’oh - sorry - thanks for the reply, I assumed it would be a patch applied on the fly! Cheers

digmorepaka commented 3 years ago

Discovered T530 with similar problem image

TODO: Fix autodetection for these rare cases where the model number is weird.

digmorepaka commented 3 years ago

https://termbin.com/33cr6

mrbigmouth502 commented 3 years ago

I see what's the problem. Your SMBIOS tables are kinda screwed up. 1vyrain expects "ThinkPad [Model]" in the Family line, you don't have that there. This is the first time ive seen a report of this so it is probably isolated. You can flash manually with the following chain of commands after it says that it is compatible:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/pad bs=1M count=8
cat /tmp/pad /root/bios/X230.rom > /tmp/12M.rom

/root/flashrom/flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -w /tmp/12M.rom --ifd -i bios -N

I just used this method to force a flash on my X230T, and it worked perfectly! I can't thank you enough for this. :)

maximzxc commented 3 years ago

@digmorepaka just for your info, I'm having the same issue, can't detect family, so used a similar workaround as you suggested and all works well, but after the flashing suspend stopped working, could it be related to SMBIOS tables issue that was mentioned above?

Also, most likely unrelated to 1vyrain, I have another issue -- sound card after booting is often not working, OS just can't detect it, nor on Windows nor on Linux, could it be also related to SMBIOS somehow?

aristipp commented 2 years ago

I see what's the problem. Your SMBIOS tables are kinda screwed up. 1vyrain expects "ThinkPad [Model]" in the Family line, you don't have that there. This is the first time ive seen a report of this so it is probably isolated. You can flash manually with the following chain of commands after it says that it is compatible:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/pad bs=1M count=8
cat /tmp/pad /root/bios/X230.rom > /tmp/12M.rom

/root/flashrom/flashrom -p internal:laptop=force_I_want_a_brick -w /tmp/12M.rom --ifd -i bios -N
I just used this method to force a flash on my X230T, and it worked perfectly! I can't thank you enough for this. :)

Same problem here, but flashing the bios manually worked without problems. Thanks for the good work!

digmorepaka commented 2 years ago

For anybody stumbling across this. This is NOT how you flash an incompatible UEFI version. This is how you flash a machine with a screwed up model number.

HolimaX commented 3 months ago

For anybody stumbling across this. This is NOT how you flash an incompatible UEFI version. This is how you flash a machine with a screwed up model number.

... so did it work or not? Comment seems it did, but the Bug is still open...

digmorepaka commented 1 week ago

... so did it work or not? Comment seems it did, but the Bug is still open...

Have not fixed the bug, workaround works. Very few seem to exhibit it thankfully. Should still fix it. Maybe some time,