This cute little fella popped up on the bench today for bios flash.
Customer had this very PC already fixed in another shop, then decided to update bios himself and unit stopped posting.
Love how easy this GMKTec K12 is to disassemble really. Though bios chip choice and placement are rather questionable - was unable to reach it with my clip and had to desolder.
Anyways it was a nice and easy morning routine, so why not ✅
Learning new stuff - programming ITE EC chip over the keyboard connector with #SVOD4 without needing to desolder the chip.
One thing I can tell you is you better use a microscope to make sure you’re picking the right ribbon cable and that you align it well while plugging.
Quite a fiddly thing to deal with but eventually I made it work.
#repair #electronicsrepair #electronics #ifixit #laptoprepair #ite #ec
It took me quite some time to figure out why I can't really read any #eMMC using #exploiteers adapter and my #SVOD4 programmer.
Long story short - adapter has VCC and VCCQ shorted, so it'll only work with an eMMC that can use 3V3 on VCCQ (and not 1V8).
After I found out about that it now gets detected by SVOD4 as it should, but I still can't figure out the settings for dumping the data.
Also compatible modules get detected just like a regular SD card on any computer ✅.
From time to time it's not just about fixing SBCs - re-flashed #EC and #bios on this desktop motherboard in order to revive it with my #SVOD4 ✅.
Oh, man, I guess I got myself into some deep-deep-deep waters with this - absolutely insane amount of information to learn, but curiosity wins again and I love it 🤣.
P.S.: was really happy to find out that initially project website used to be Svod.od.ua - arguably the best programmer on the market originated in Odesa, Ukraine 🇺🇦.
#svodproject #svod4 #electronics #bios #tinkering #electronicsrepair
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