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

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:27:15 +0000

After messing around a while with different options, the simplest solution seems to be to create USB stick in Windows with UNetbootin for Windows, then save the appropriate DOS executable BIOS pkg from http://www.samsungpc.com to the stick. Boot the NC10 to USB stick after elevating USB in boot order in BIOS, ignore numbered menu, press Enter to A:>, type C: to enter C:>, then type ‘filename’ of your download in my case ‘11CA07D0′ and the file executes. Plug in first or it will not execute and prompt you to plug in. Pull out USB, reboot and you are done. I tried the Linux approach and followed everything and it didnt work despite multiple attempts as described. This was a piece of cake the way I described. Good luck!

By: error27

error27 — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:12:21 +0000

Cool. Thanks. That worked from KA01DE to the 11CA.

It printed a couple sort of frightening messages on the way, but the verify worked and it fixed my backlight issue. With the KA01 it didn’t support the backlight under linux at all. For other BIOS revs it part way worked because you could set the backlight setting in the BIOS to “user controlled” and it worked. But with the 11CA it just works by default.

By: karmue

karmue — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:00:20 +0000

Worked great. NP-NC10-KA06DE

By: Francisco

Francisco — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:09:03 +0000

It works perfectly in my Samsung NC10, my model is: NP-NC10-KA06CL. CL is for my country: Chile. So the only thing I have to say is “muchas gracias”. :)

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:37:47 +0000

Hi,

Thanks a lot for this post, worked like I charm, my brightness keys are working now :) . I downloaded the NC10-11CA.rom file (as I understood that this is the latest update) and executed:
flashrom -w NC10-11CA.rom
As mintlars (comments in the beginning), I was not sure to understand in the beginning, but know I do (I hope). The following check with flashrom:
flashrom -v NC10-11CA.rom
will actually verify whether you have the exact same flash as given in the file. If that fails, it just means that you have another bios version then in the file. It also failed for me, then I was writing the rom file and everything was fine. BTW my model number is NP-NC10-KA01DE (DE I guess indicates the German model that I have ;) ).

thanks again!
Alex

By: Samsung NC10 Firmware-Upgrade w/o Windows - synapseninferno

Samsung NC10 Firmware-Upgrade w/o Windows - synapseninferno — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:09:08 +0000

[...] operating system on the it. Which apparently mine had never experienced: right after the purchase, a very useful blog entry about flashing directly from Linux. This entry also offers a ROM image of the 11CA firmware, which [...]

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:33:12 +0000

Thanks mate :)

By: Wicher

Wicher — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:24:26 +0000

AFAIK the NC10 has only one BIOS EEPROM chip. That’s the one you’ll be writing to, you can’t make a choice.
You use the flashrom utility to write one of the ROM dump files to your flash chip. It will overwrite whatever was on that chip.

By: Wicher

Wicher — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:17:34 +0000

Both these actions can be performed in linux with the flashrom utility linked to in my article. Its website provides ample documentation.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:41:33 +0000

Also how do I know which rom to overwrite?