Second day of owning the tab and i managed to brick it.. Apparently updating device firmware through windows device manager was not a good idea(don’t do this, that’s how i ended up in this situation). The tab does not react to any type of button presses/combos. Ordered the clip and programmer, hope the will ship fast and that flashing fixes it. Edit: Okay, took me a while to get everything to work but i managed to reflash the bios chip using arduino duemilanove/serprog/flashrom. I used 1K and 2.2K resistors to get arduinos logic levels within spec. The tablet works now as it should.
Hello. One question.
Did you have any problems using Flashrom with Gigadevice Chip that came with X98 Pro? had to solder pins to bios-chip
Since I didn’t have luck with the clip I have decided to use my old cables, solder pins to bios-chip directly just the way you did. But I have left Pin 3 und Pin 7 out because according to one member from other forum Pin3 und Pin7 were unnecessary. Is it true? Do I need Pin3 (/WP IO2) and Pin7 (HOLD OR / RESET IO3) too?
I have already tried to use Flashrom 0.9.9 (Raspbian, Raspberry Pi2) with Teclasts X98pro Gigadevice Eprom but Flashrom doesn’t seem not to support that chip natively.
Would really appreciate if someone could tell me whether Pin3 and Pin7 were necessary while flashing the bios.
Thanks 🙂
