Post code disply
Hello,
Does the "UP Squared" have a post code display ?
Does it have a secondary BIOS chip which can be programmed ? How ?
Thank you,
Zvika
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@zvivered said:
Hello,Does the "UP Squared" have a post code display ?
No, it does not.
Does it have a secondary BIOS chip which can be programmed ? How ?
No, it does not.
However, under a disaster or aborted flash, there is an advanced procedure to recover the UP bios (and across all UP boards) by flashing the bios with an external SOIC-8 clip and SPI programmer.
https://wiki.up-community.org/BIOS_chip_flashing
I got the clip myself if I ever run into the problem. However, SPI programmers are not cheap.
I did find some online tutorials explaining how to use a RPi's SPI pins with the same clip. Completely untested, but something like this looks promising.
https://github.com/bibanon/Coreboot-ThinkPads/wiki/Hardware-Flashing-with-Raspberry-Pi
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