[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Petr Cvek
Dne 12. 01. 21 v 20:42 Peter Mueller napsal(a): > Great! thank you Petr for finding this "easter egg" :) > I've looked so strongly on SOIC that I didn't even mention a socketed bios, > especially if it would be hidden in a housing.. Yeah I didn't realised that first too. It was almost: "where the

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Peter Mueller
Thank you all for your interest and your kind support! Maybe I will someday achieve to run coreboot on an zotac ci 640 zbox, I am a small step further now :) Am 12.01.21 um 20:41 schrieb Angel Pons: > Hi Peter, > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 6:15 PM Peter Mueller wrote: >> >> https://pasteboard.c

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Peter Mueller
Great! thank you Petr for finding this "easter egg" :) I've looked so strongly on SOIC that I didn't even mention a socketed bios, especially if it would be hidden in a housing.. One have to open the grey plastic box to access the not even soldered 64Mbit Bios chip https://pasteboard.co/JJl7Wts.p

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Angel Pons
Hi Peter, On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 6:15 PM Peter Mueller wrote: > > https://pasteboard.co/JJknICr.jpg Ah, I see it: it's on the top right quadrant next to the USB connector. That gray thing is a socket, and should contain the flash chip we're looking for. Lucky you! With the flash chip in a socke

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Petr Cvek
lol I've found it :-D it's not a chip, it's actually a socket right of wifi https://pasteboard.co/JJknICr.jpg "BIOS ROM" on PCB Petr Dne 12. 01. 21 v 19:14 Peter Mueller napsal(a): > Yes, I have removed all strips, ram and extension cards, so I have seen all > SOIC8 chips on the board. > But th

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Peter Mueller
Yes, I have removed all strips, ram and extension cards, so I have seen all SOIC8 chips on the board. But this is what I do not understand, I find no more then I showed in the pics. I will send some more/better pics, so you could see more details. I removed all strips and extensions, where any S

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Angel Pons
Hi Peter, On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 4:26 PM wrote: > > Hello coreboot community, > > as an open source fan I recently get to know coreboot and really like the > idea behind. > Sadly I bought my computer HW before learning more on libre friendly hardware > that > respects your freedom. Now I try t

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 05:25:48PM +0100, reddu...@online.de wrote: > Hello coreboot community, > > as an open source fan I recently get to know coreboot and really like the > idea behind. > Sadly I bought my computer HW before learning more on libre friendly hardware > that > respects your free

[coreboot] Re: Help locating BIOS flash IC on a not yet supported mini PC board

2021-01-12 Thread Petr Cvek
Did you looked under black isolation stripes? There is one soic-8 at the top of this photo https://pasteboard.co/JJjRjLU.jpg next to superio U49. There can be more chips under expansion cards. BTW you can eliminate chips which doesn't have the standard SPI pinout (for example you can try meas