Their support has proven themselves to be ineffective and incompetent.

Alternatively you can run only the command SPIW0323.exe FBCT32A.bin /V 32A to not reflash the whole BIOS.Īfterwards you can reboot and your boot should be instant again.įor the record, this is the last time I will ever buy a Lenovo product.

Then run Flash.cmd as Administrator and the EC will flash.

Drop this downloaded file into the folder where you extracted the BIOS and overwrite the existing file.

Extract the BIOS package on Lenovo's website to YOUR C DRIVE (DO NOT RUN FROM USB).

Download the BIOS for FLASHING FROM INSIDE THE OS (not USB or CD version).

Here is a link to download the modified flashing exe: Hey, I just wanted to give you an update on something I did to solve the issue of the Embedded Controller flashing.īecause Lenovo support is completely incompetent and won't even take the time to reply, the only solution was to modify the flashing exe to skip the version check, because there was no override to force a flash of a lesser or equal version. QUESTION: Is there anyway to force a re-flashing of the Embedded Controller Firmware, such as a '-force' switch for SPI042? This step does nothing if it determines that the Embedded Controller Firmware does not need updating. Looking at the Autoexec.bat file on the USB drive used to perform the BIOS updates, it executes the following to update the Embedded Controller Firmware: Even worse, coming out of 'Sleep' also has a 25-30 second pause/delay! However, those machines that had the 'verfy' issue when flashing the Embedded Controller Firmware now suffer from a 25-30 second pause/delay during the Windows 10 boot up process, and also when shutting down. This time, it bypassed the Embedded Controller Firmware update thinking that was okay, and proceeded to successfully update the BIOS. I killed the process while it was in a 5 second wait state and restarted the BIOS update. Two of those Embedded Controller Firmware updates failed the 'Verify' step after firmware programming, and then got stuck in a loop re-trying. On three of the machines, the BIOS update attempted to first update the Embedded Controller Firmware. I have applied the latest ( version) of the ThinkCentre BIOS Update for M93p Tiny PCs to ten machines.

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