NM-A561 – Lenovo ThinkPad E560
The Lenovo ThinkPad E560 and Lenovo ThinkPad E460 are built on the NM-A561 board designed by LCFC. ChambersDesignInc.com has indexed 8 files for this board — 5 BIOS files, 2 schematics and 1 boardview.
Revisions seen in file names: 1.0 and 1.35. ODM project name: BE560. First posted in June 2018 in BIOS Archive, Schematics & Boardviews Archive and Cyberlan Electronics.
BIOS dumps 5
Schematics 2
Boardviews 1
From the uploader
New
Lenovo E560
BE560 NM-A561
REV 1.0
2015-07-28
I5 6G intel
UC8M1
8mb
LENOVO THINKPAD E560 BE560 NM-A561 REV 1.0 _ 2015-07-28 WORKING BIOS & KBEC 100%
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Board facts
| Board number | NM-A561 |
|---|---|
| Designed by | LCFC |
| Platform group | NM-A |
| ODM project | BE560 |
| Revisions | 1.0, 1.35 |
| CPU generation | Intel 6th gen |
| First seen | 2018-06-13 |
| Source channels | BIOS Archive, Schematics & Boardviews Archive, Cyberlan Electronics |
| About the number | LCFC is Lenovo's joint venture with Compal; its main boards use NM- numbers and sub-boards NS- numbers. |
Laptops that use NM-A561
- Lenovo ThinkPad E560
- Lenovo ThinkPad E460
What these files are for
A BIOS dump is a full image of the board's SPI flash chip. It is written back with an SPI programmer when the original firmware is corrupted, after a chip replacement, or to recover from a failed update. Read and save the original chip first: serial number, DMI data and the Intel ME / AMD PSP state differ between boards.
A schematic is the circuit diagram of the main board: power rails, power-up sequence, component values and net names. It is the reference for measuring voltages and tracing a fault.
A boardview is the component placement map of the PCB: click a part or a net and the viewer highlights where it is and what it connects to. Used together with the schematic to find test points.
Tools to open these files
| Format | What it is | Open with |
|---|---|---|
| .bin | raw SPI flash image | a CH341A, XGecu T48 / TL866II Plus or RT809H programmer |
| PDF schematic | any PDF reader; Sumatra PDF and Foxit handle large schematics well | |
| .rar | RAR archive | 7-Zip or WinRAR |
| .zip | ZIP archive | 7-Zip, WinRAR or the built-in Windows extractor |
Questions
Who designed the NM-A561 board?
NM-A561 is an LCFC board number used by Lenovo.
Which laptops use the NM-A561 board?
Files in the catalog link NM-A561 to the Lenovo ThinkPad E560 and Lenovo ThinkPad E460.
Is there a boardview for NM-A561?
Yes, 1 boardview file.
Where do the download links go?
Each button opens the original public Telegram post the file was shared in. ChambersDesignInc.com only indexes and cross-references those posts.