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ThinkPad T60: Recovery guide

This section documents how to recover from a bad flash that prevents your ThinkPad T60 from booting.

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+ +

+ Types of brick: +
- Brick type 1: bucts not reset
- Brick type 2: bad rom (or user error), system won't boot
+

+ +

Brick type 1: bucts not reset.

+ You still have Lenovo BIOS, or you had libreboot running and you flashed another ROM; and you had bucts 1 set and + the ROM wasn't dd'd.* or if Lenovo BIOS was present and libreboot wasn't flashed.

+ + In this case, unbricking is easy: reset BUC.TS to 0 by removing that yellow cmos coin (it's a battery) and putting it back after a minute or two:
+

+ + *Those dd commands should be applied to all newly compiled T60 ROM images (the ROM images in libreboot binary archives already have this applied!):
+ dd if=coreboot.rom of=top64k.bin bs=1 skip=$[$(stat -c %s coreboot.rom) - 0x10000] count=64k
+ dd if=coreboot.rom bs=1 skip=$[$(stat -c %s coreboot.rom) - 0x20000] count=64k | hexdump
+ dd if=top64k.bin of=coreboot.rom bs=1 seek=$[$(stat -c %s coreboot.rom) - 0x20000] count=64k conv=notrunc
+ (doing this makes the ROM suitable for use when flashing a system that still has Lenovo BIOS running, + using those instructions: http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x60/Installation. + (it says x60, but instructions for t60 are identical) +

+ +

bad rom (or user error), system won't boot

+ +

+ In this scenario, you compiled a ROM that had an incorrect configuration, or there is an actual bug preventing your system from + booting. Or, maybe, you set BUC.TS to 0 and shut down after first flash while Lenovo BIOS was running. In any case, your system is bricked and will not boot at all. +

+ "Unbricking" means flashing a known-good (working) ROM. The problem: you can't boot the system, making this difficult. In this situation, external hardware (see hardware requirements above) is needed which can flash the SPI chip (where libreboot resides). +

+ +

+ Remove those screws and remove the HDD:
+ +

+ +

+ Lift off the palm rest:
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+ +

+ Lift up the keyboard, pull it back a bit, flip it over like that and then disconnect it from the board:
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+ Gently wedge both sides loose:
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+ Remove that cable from the position:
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+ +

+ Now remove that bezel. Remove wifi, nvram battery and speaker connector (also remove 56k modem, on the left of wifi):
+ +

+ +

+ Remove those screws:
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+ Disconnect the power jack:
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+ Remove nvram battery:
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+ Disconnect cable (for 56k modem) and disconnect the other cable:
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+ Disconnect speaker cable:
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+ Disconnect the other end of the 56k modem cable:
+ +

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+ Make sure you removed it:
+ +

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+ Unscrew those:
+ +

+ +

+ Make sure you removed those:
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+ Disconnect LCD cable from board:
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+ Remove those screws then remove the LCD assembly:
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+ Once again, make sure you removed those:
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+ +

+ Remove the shielding containing the motherboard, then flip it over. Remove these screws, placing them on a steady + surface in the same layout as they were in before you removed them. Also, you should mark each screw hole after removing the + screw (a permanent marker pen will do), this is so that you have a point of reference when re-assembling the system:
+ + +

+ +

+ Now wire up the BBB and the Pomona with your PSU.
+ Refer to bbb_setup.html for how to setup + the BBB for flashing.
+ Note, the guide mentions a 3.3v DC PSU but you don't need this on the T60: + if you don't have or don't want to use an external PSU, then make + sure not to connect the 3.3v leads mentioned in the guide; + instead, connect the AC adapter (the one that normally charges your + battery) so that the board has power (but don't boot it up)
+
+ Correlate the following with the BBB guide linked above: +

+POMONA 5250:
+===  DVD drive ====
+ 18              -       - 1
+ 22              -       - NC				---- RAM is on this end
+ NC              -       - 21
+ 3.3V (PSU)      -       - 17 - this is pin 1 on the flash chip
+===  audio jacks ===
+This is how you will connect. Numbers refer to pin numbers on the BBB, on the plugs near the DC jack.
+

+ +

+ Connect the pomona from the BBB to the flash chip. No pics unfortunately. (use the text diagram above). +

+ +

+ Flashrom binaries for ARM (tested on a BBB) are distributed in libreboot_util. Alternatively, + libreboot also distributes flashrom source code which can be built. +

+ +

+ SSH'd into the BBB:
+ # ./flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev1.0,spispeed=512 -w yourrom.rom +

+ It should be Verifying flash... VERIFIED at the end. If flashrom complains about multiple flash chip + definitions detected, then choose one of them following the instructions in the output. +

+ +

+ Put those screws back:
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+ Put it back into lower chassis:
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+ Attach LCD and insert screws (also, attach the lcd cable to the board):
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+ Insert those screws:
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+ On the CPU (and there is another chip south-east to it, sorry forgot to take pic) + clean off the old thermal paste (with the alcohol) and apply new (Artic Silver 5 is good, others are good too) + you should also clean the heatsink the same way
+ +

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+ Attach the heatsink and install the screws (also, make sure to install the AC jack as highlighted):
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+ Reinstall that upper bezel:
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+ Do that:
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+ Re-attach modem, wifi, (wwan?), and all necessary cables. Sorry, forgot to take pics. Look at previous removal steps to see where they go back to. +

+ +

+ Attach keyboard and install nvram battery:
+ +

+ +

+ Place keyboard and (sorry, forgot to take pics) reinstall the palmrest and insert screws on the underside:
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+ +

+ It lives!
+ +

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+ Always stress test ('stress -c 2' and xsensors. below 90C is ok) when replacing cpu paste/heatsink:
+ +

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+ Copyright © 2014, 2015 Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
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+ +

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+ +

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ThinkPad T60: Recovery guide

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Brick type 1: bucts not reset.

bad rom (or user error), system won't boot