What you are looking is pomera clip. Try searching Ali for "soic8 clip" there 
are plenty even with proggrammers sometimes

On September 17, 2021 4:44:19 PM UTC, Nico Huber <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi Daniel,
>
>On 17.09.21 18:06, Daniel Kulesz via coreboot wrote:
>> I plan to flash a Thinkpad T430. According to an article in the german 
>> "golem.de" magazine [1] accessing the flash via SPI is possible by 
>> connecting the wires from the SPI flasher to plug contacts on the upper side 
>> of the board - without disassembling the whole device. Unfortunately, I was 
>> unable to find the details regarding these contacts neither in the coreboot 
>> docs nor anywhere else. Did I look in the wrong places or is this simply not 
>> publically documented?
>
>I don't know any documentation about this. But a good reference are
>the schematics which can usually be found easily on the web for these
>old Thinkpads. Just google for the code name[2], this one should be
>nozomi-4.
>
>Don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for. But there
>are two headers shown, much like in the "example" *wink* ;) picture
>attached. There, J27 is for emulation of both flash chips and J14
>is for directly flashing the second chip. I guess J14 can be used
>for flashing the first chip too, by using -SPI_CS0 from J27. But
>you will definitely want to attach VCC at J14 because that's where
>the board is protected by a diode.
>
>Hope that helps,
>Nico
>
>> [1] 
>> https://www.golem.de/news/coreboot-und-nitrokey-mein-acht-jahre-alter-laptop-wird-zur-festung-2012-152931.html
>[2] https://doc.coreboot.org/mainboard/lenovo/codenames.html
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