A1278 K6 20120305 820-2879-B

BIOS .bin 4.00 MB Shared

EFI boot ROM for the Apple A1278 MacBook Pro 13-inch, K6 board, logic board 820-2879 at revision B. The 20120305 date in the name likely indicates the firmware build date. Apple's 820-xxxx numbering with a revision letter is printed on the logic board and should match before flashing. The 4 MB image suits a 32 Mbit SPI chip. Write it with a programmer to fix a no-chime or no-boot fault, after saving the original, which holds serial number and firmware lock data.

The button opens the matching file on RM Schematics, or a source page if it is not catalogued there yet. The original attachment is from @bios_laptop. Enginerys does not host this file.

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A raw, byte-for-byte image of a flash chip: the main BIOS / UEFI, the embedded-controller (EC) firmware, or both.

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