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- <title>ThinkPad T60: Recovery guide</title>
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- <h1>ThinkPad T60: Recovery guide</h1>
- <p>This section documents how to recover from a bad flash that prevents your ThinkPad T60 from booting.</p>
- <p><a href="index.html">Back to previous index</a></p>
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- <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Types of brick:
- <ul>
- <li><a href="#bucts_brick">Brick type 1: bucts not reset</a></li>
- <li><a href="#recovery">Brick type 2: bad rom (or user error), system won't boot</a></li>
- </ul>
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- <div class="section">
- <h1 id="bucts_brick">Brick type 1: bucts not reset.</h1>
- <p>
- 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.<br/><br/>
- 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:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0006.JPG" alt="" /><br/><br/>
- *Those dd commands should be applied to all newly compiled T60 ROM images (the ROM images in libreboot binary archives already have this applied!):<br/>
- dd if=coreboot.rom of=top64k.bin bs=1 skip=$[$(stat -c %s coreboot.rom) - 0x10000] count=64k<br/>
- dd if=coreboot.rom bs=1 skip=$[$(stat -c %s coreboot.rom) - 0x20000] count=64k | hexdump<br/>
- dd if=top64k.bin of=coreboot.rom bs=1 seek=$[$(stat -c %s coreboot.rom) - 0x20000] count=64k conv=notrunc<br/>
- (doing this makes the ROM suitable for use when flashing a system that still has Lenovo BIOS running,
- using those instructions: <a href="http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x60/Installation">http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x60/Installation</a>.
- (it says x60, but instructions for t60 are identical)
- </p>
- </div>
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- <h1 id="recovery">bad rom (or user error), system won't boot</h1>
- <p>
- 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.
- </p>
- <p>
- "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).
- </p>
- <p>
- Remove those screws and remove the HDD:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0001.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0002.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Lift off the palm rest:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0003.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Lift up the keyboard, pull it back a bit, flip it over like that and then disconnect it from the board:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0004.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0005.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0006.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Gently wedge both sides loose:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0007.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0008.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Remove that cable from the position:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0009.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0010.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Now remove that bezel. Remove wifi, nvram battery and speaker connector (also remove 56k modem, on the left of wifi):<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0011.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Remove those screws:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0012.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Disconnect the power jack:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0013.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Remove nvram battery:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0014.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Disconnect cable (for 56k modem) and disconnect the other cable:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0015.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0016.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Disconnect speaker cable:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0017.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Disconnect the other end of the 56k modem cable:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0018.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Make sure you removed it:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0019.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Unscrew those:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0020.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Make sure you removed those:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0021.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Disconnect LCD cable from board:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0022.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Remove those screws then remove the LCD assembly:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0023.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0024.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0025.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Once again, make sure you removed those:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0026.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- 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:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0027.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0028.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0029.JPG" alt="" />
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0031.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0032.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0033.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Now wire up the BBB and the Pomona with your PSU.<br/>
- Refer to <a href="bbb_setup.html">bbb_setup.html</a> for how to setup
- the BBB for flashing.<br/>
- <b>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)</b><br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0030.JPG" alt="" /><br/>
- Correlate the following with the BBB guide linked above:
- </p>
- <pre>
- 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 ===
- <i>This is how you will connect. Numbers refer to pin numbers on the BBB, on the plugs near the DC jack.</i>
- </pre>
- <p>
- Connect the pomona from the BBB to the flash chip. No pics unfortunately. (use the text diagram above).
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Flashrom binaries for ARM (tested on a BBB) are distributed in libreboot_util. Alternatively,
- libreboot also distributes flashrom source code which can be built.
- </p>
- <p>
- SSH'd into the BBB:<br/>
- # <b>./flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev1.0,spispeed=512 -w yourrom.rom</b>
- </p>
- <p>
- It should be <b>Verifying flash... VERIFIED</b> at the end. If flashrom complains about multiple flash chip
- definitions detected, then choose one of them following the instructions in the output.
- </p>
- <p>
- Put those screws back:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0047.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Put it back into lower chassis:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0048.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Attach LCD and insert screws (also, attach the lcd cable to the board):<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0049.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Insert those screws:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0050.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- 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<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0051.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Attach the heatsink and install the screws (also, make sure to install the AC jack as highlighted):<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0052.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Reinstall that upper bezel:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0053.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Do that:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0054.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0055.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- 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.
- </p>
- <p>
- Attach keyboard and install nvram battery:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0056.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0057.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Place keyboard and (sorry, forgot to take pics) reinstall the palmrest and insert screws on the underside:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0058.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- It lives!<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0071.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0072.JPG" alt="" /> <img src="../images/t60_dev/0073.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
- <p>
- Always stress test ('stress -c 2' and xsensors. below 90C is ok) when replacing cpu paste/heatsink:<br/>
- <img src="../images/t60_dev/0074.JPG" alt="" />
- </p>
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