Please help me understand what I did to my Acer Nitro 5 an-515-57 using a SREP
So I had 4 hours to kill, knew what bottlenecks I could easily open (99ns memory latency wtf for one), and wanted advanced settings in my bios options. I'd thought removing batteries and power would be fine in case of bad settings, and heard about fn+esc to recover in case of corruption, so I wasn't worried.
I have an an515-57-919c, i9 11900h, rtx 3060, gh53g la-191p rev 1c mobo, xmc qh128ahig BIOS on v1.19.
Ran the tool here, user password set, secboot off, but tpm left on/uncleared. Saved changes of a small undervolt and unlocked overclocking.: https://github.com/LogicBypass/AN515-57_Bios_Unlock
It claims to cover an-515-57s and tested in v1.19, but is for a Predator Triton 300 officially. For one glorious moment, all options were exposed, I'd never seen so many possibilities. It felt like I was finally going to do what Acer could not.
The long: I rebooted to no screen, but fans and LEDs worked, all signs point to failure to post, CMOS/battery/EC resets did nothing. On top of that, USB function is no longer detected, so I can't use fn+esc to recover (unless that required some manufacturer partition long since deleted). Any attempt to do recover results in 100% fan speed, LEDs, and nothing else. If I let boot or recover sit for 30s, the computer reboots infinitely. Occasionally, it will reboot a few times in a row, like it's trying to figure out memory timings or enabling/disabling some hardware. I tried every conceivable means of debugging I could do, no add-ins, power button holds (alone to clear, with fn+esc, and with alt+f10), tried each RAM stick on their own in both slots, tried no RAM (same result as having RAM), left the thing with 0 power input for a day, nothing.
TLDR: If someone could take a look at what that SREP script did to my an-515-57-919c I would be very appreciative. Did it trip some security measure, is it trying to find hardware that doesn't exist, overwrite a line I needed, toast the ME region, or unable to set the RAM? My best guesses. I noobed, want to know what paths I can personally take, or what the bill will look like.
I do not have a reader/programmer or soldering gear. Don't ask for a dump yet, have to wait for my slow af friend to ask his distant friend for theirs, could be days or weeks.
I have an an515-57-919c, i9 11900h, rtx 3060, gh53g la-191p rev 1c mobo, xmc qh128ahig BIOS on v1.19.
Ran the tool here, user password set, secboot off, but tpm left on/uncleared. Saved changes of a small undervolt and unlocked overclocking.: https://github.com/LogicBypass/AN515-57_Bios_Unlock
It claims to cover an-515-57s and tested in v1.19, but is for a Predator Triton 300 officially. For one glorious moment, all options were exposed, I'd never seen so many possibilities. It felt like I was finally going to do what Acer could not.
The long: I rebooted to no screen, but fans and LEDs worked, all signs point to failure to post, CMOS/battery/EC resets did nothing. On top of that, USB function is no longer detected, so I can't use fn+esc to recover (unless that required some manufacturer partition long since deleted). Any attempt to do recover results in 100% fan speed, LEDs, and nothing else. If I let boot or recover sit for 30s, the computer reboots infinitely. Occasionally, it will reboot a few times in a row, like it's trying to figure out memory timings or enabling/disabling some hardware. I tried every conceivable means of debugging I could do, no add-ins, power button holds (alone to clear, with fn+esc, and with alt+f10), tried each RAM stick on their own in both slots, tried no RAM (same result as having RAM), left the thing with 0 power input for a day, nothing.
TLDR: If someone could take a look at what that SREP script did to my an-515-57-919c I would be very appreciative. Did it trip some security measure, is it trying to find hardware that doesn't exist, overwrite a line I needed, toast the ME region, or unable to set the RAM? My best guesses. I noobed, want to know what paths I can personally take, or what the bill will look like.
I do not have a reader/programmer or soldering gear. Don't ask for a dump yet, have to wait for my slow af friend to ask his distant friend for theirs, could be days or weeks.
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