Need 11th gen full SPI dump for hardware recovery - bricked board

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I accidentally bricked my 11th gen i7-1165g7 board. It’s a long story, but the original BIOS got wiped and I no longer have a backup of the image. So I’m working on stitching together a BIOS from the update capsule and possibly someone else’s dump. I have a CH341A and a WSON-8 pogo jig and I’m able to flash the top-side WinBound chip, but I need a full SPI dump to stitch a recovery image together.

I can pull the BIOS region out of the 3.24 capsule myself, but I still need the IFD and ME from a working 11th gen board to complete the stitch from what I understand.

@DHowett, in another thread about off-board flashing, you’ve mentioned you reflashed 11th gen boards before. Any chance you have a full flash image you could share?

Otherwise, if anyone with a working 11th gen board is up for a quick external read, that would solve it.

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It should be sufficient to extract the BIOS FD and write that to SPI flash. When I recovered my 11th Gen board, I did only this[1]. :slight_smile:

If it doesn’t come up after that, unfortunately that’s the extent of my experience!

Here is 3.24.

https://static.howett.net/hx20-3.24-bios.fd

https://static.howett.net/hx20-3.24-ec.bin

I’d recommend downloading the 3.24 release and running the official flash tool again after manually flashing the system firmware image; this will bring the PD controllers and embedded controller up to the same version. If you don’t do that, you might experience unexpected behavior.

  1. specifically, I erased the flash chip and wrote only the BIOS FD; it covers the entire flash region. I reapplied all available updates after I got it booting. ↩︎

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Hey thanks for the quick reply and the links! I appreciate it a lot. I’ll try to report back how things go once I get the chance to do some more flashing.