I have an Acer veriton Z4660G all in one pc,
Model: Z4660G-I5850H1 (VZ4660G_W)
Need bios dump and schematic would save my life !
to make a long story short I bought this all in one used
with a broken lcd, with the objective of making a custom desktop out of it
,it was working perfectly but unfortunately this motherboard default settings does not show post or bios on external screen, I tried everything and every cable/port/screen also ext gpu or internal i also tried to navigate blindly because I could access bios without seeing so I looked a youtube video of the same model bios but was unable.
I ended up flashing many different version of the proper bios from windows, then it would auto apply on reboot or I'd have to press enter up enter...i was wishing the default configuration would show bios on external vga...in the end I ended up modifying the acer bios installing script just a little so it would "force ignore previous configuration" after that it bricked it,
but the computer would still power on...fast foward to yesterday I bought a ch134 programmer with sop8, dumped the bios on the chip without headers (I think), then flashed some virgin acer bios rom file from acer original site, it was a .CAP file I renamed to. Rom
Succes with asprogrammer...verified twice.
Now it won't power on.no lights nothing. At all. It has power on the mobo when plugged however and I verified everything else 10x cleared cmos, did with cr2032 on or off, power cable/supply on and off did the flash with 3 different programs, one of them asprogrammer 2.0.1.3 fix works,* the hex file seems always okay its a perfect copy it verify and it holds there for 24 hours and more.
I am a beginner In bios flashing so I finally realised its likely not booting because I'm missing the Intel me and serial/Mac and i think the lower level boot "sequence" from the bios.
Upon more verification the dump I made first is corrupted.
And missing headers parts but partially ok.
I've been reading online trying to find any source for a unofficial dump of this bios without succes, as soon as I get it to boot I'm going to flash back an original from acer
I've seen some people seem to take original bios file and add stuff to it with an hex editor, like region or Intelme info, could somebody point me in the right direction to learn more about this ?! Or to a dump file
Other question if somebody has a dump can you please pre-enable bios on external monitor or ext gpu if possible I would greatly appreciate
Also I have one last question,if somebody has the schematics I would really appreciate there is a small switch on the motherboard beside the usb-C port called WPI im.wondering what's is the purpose of that and also an unpopulated hdmi port. Many thanks !
Model: Z4660G-I5850H1 (VZ4660G_W)
Need bios dump and schematic would save my life !
to make a long story short I bought this all in one used
with a broken lcd, with the objective of making a custom desktop out of it
,it was working perfectly but unfortunately this motherboard default settings does not show post or bios on external screen, I tried everything and every cable/port/screen also ext gpu or internal i also tried to navigate blindly because I could access bios without seeing so I looked a youtube video of the same model bios but was unable.
I ended up flashing many different version of the proper bios from windows, then it would auto apply on reboot or I'd have to press enter up enter...i was wishing the default configuration would show bios on external vga...in the end I ended up modifying the acer bios installing script just a little so it would "force ignore previous configuration" after that it bricked it,
but the computer would still power on...fast foward to yesterday I bought a ch134 programmer with sop8, dumped the bios on the chip without headers (I think), then flashed some virgin acer bios rom file from acer original site, it was a .CAP file I renamed to. Rom
Succes with asprogrammer...verified twice.
Now it won't power on.no lights nothing. At all. It has power on the mobo when plugged however and I verified everything else 10x cleared cmos, did with cr2032 on or off, power cable/supply on and off did the flash with 3 different programs, one of them asprogrammer 2.0.1.3 fix works,* the hex file seems always okay its a perfect copy it verify and it holds there for 24 hours and more.
I am a beginner In bios flashing so I finally realised its likely not booting because I'm missing the Intel me and serial/Mac and i think the lower level boot "sequence" from the bios.
Upon more verification the dump I made first is corrupted.
And missing headers parts but partially ok.
I've been reading online trying to find any source for a unofficial dump of this bios without succes, as soon as I get it to boot I'm going to flash back an original from acer
I've seen some people seem to take original bios file and add stuff to it with an hex editor, like region or Intelme info, could somebody point me in the right direction to learn more about this ?! Or to a dump file
Other question if somebody has a dump can you please pre-enable bios on external monitor or ext gpu if possible I would greatly appreciate
Also I have one last question,if somebody has the schematics I would really appreciate there is a small switch on the motherboard beside the usb-C port called WPI im.wondering what's is the purpose of that and also an unpopulated hdmi port. Many thanks !
/windows/firmware wich has the same name as the bios. It is a .cap file and dates from before I owned this pc. Could this possibly be helpful. I'm not that knowledgeable but I ran MEanalyser and it stated there was no management engine present.
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