Re: need CLEARME bios for lenovo ideacenter 300-20ib

Just to report the problem persists; as suggested, the 150ohm pull-up resistor was strapped to the LPC CLK line, but made no difference. The board still repeatedly sounds two beeps, and video remains dead.

Another thread by poster [B]yc630[/B] is more optimistic. He/she eventually recovered the IBSWME board by reflashing the BIOS after it stopped booting. Though there are several board variants and different BIOS revisions which apparently are not compatible with each other.

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Re: Lenovo S200 I need to dump bios please

Please see this thread, on what the fault might actually be... hardware issue:

[url]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpost.php?p=1097290&postcount=4[/url]Re: Lenovo S200 I need to dump bios ...tcount=4[/url]

Re: need CLEARME bios for lenovo ideacenter 300-20ib



I acquired a job-lot of these [B]IBSWME v.1.0[/B] boards; they were parted-out from the [B]Lenovo IdeaCentre 300S-11IBR[/B] desktop PCs. Sold as "fully tested", yet none of the boards reaches POST.

No video output. Two beeps. Long pause. Two beeps. Repeat. Though the boards do detect when no RAM is present, by sounding one long beep then three short beeps.

A Chinese poster called '[B][I]yc630[/I][/B]' provides some great information about these faulty boards. He posts his...

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