Comments on: Flash your Samsung NC10’s BIOS from Linux

By: http://bc-bd.org » Blog Archive » xbacklight, squeeze and my NC10

http://bc-bd.org » Blog Archive » xbacklight, squeeze and my NC10 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:27:42 +0000

[...] created a FreeDOS USB stick with information available from Smörgåsbord and fdos.org, copied the BIOS to it, bootet from the stick and successfully flashed my [...]

By: Erska

Erska — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:17:30 +0000

Thank you! For providing these flash imagos and instructions how to get Samsung NC10 brightness adjustment working again.
flashrom is brilliant sw replacing DOS, usb and disket boot messup.
Best Regards from China / Hangzhou: Erska

By: Gotisch

Gotisch — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:40:47 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks KA03 here so no problems at all :)

By: Kit Sunde

Kit Sunde — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:28:04 +0000

I have a KA01 and it worked like a charm, thank you. :)

By: Tobias

Tobias — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:34:16 +0000

I updated the BIOS using the DOS-version of the firmware update from samsung.

I prepared FreeDOS booting on a USB-stick I got stuck when booting it though, it said “Invalid opcode”. If you get this replace “memdisk” with the version which is in the syslinux 3.83-package. After doing that it booted as it should.

By: Wicher

Wicher — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:58:26 +0000

How odd. Apparently, those bytes get a special treatment of some sorts. Have you tried blanking (zeroing) the dates?
Anyway, should you need a bios with your own date of purchase, you can always flash it with the dump you (hopefully) made of your original BIOS.

By: 升级到 Ubuntu 9.10 - 鬼の领地

升级到 Ubuntu 9.10 - 鬼の领地 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:42:19 +0000

[...] NC10 的 BIOS：Smörgåsbord » Flash your Samsung NC10’s BIOS from Linux [...]

By: upsuper

upsuper — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:06:23 +0000

As I’ve tried, it is no use to modifiy the string at offset 18031E. The purchase time just disappears if I use my modified version of your rom file. I found another offset which contains the date string, but even if I change them both, it makes no difference either.

By: Wicher

Wicher — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:27:57 +0000

Tanks a bunch for reporting, upsuper. 2009/01 is when I bought mine. I had a hex-look at the ROM and (in the 11CA release) you can probably use a hex editor to alter the date at offset 18031E. You can set it to ‘1492/06′ or maybe ‘UpSuper’ (=same length) if you’d feel so inclined ;-)

By: upsuper

upsuper — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:37:29 +0000

Thanks for sharing this rom. I’ve successfully installed it and it worked fine as well.
But it brings a new problem that my purchase time in BIOS is changed to 2009/01, but I bought it on Aug. 2009.

I just found that you are interested in our exact model, mine is NP-NC10-KAB1US.