Question about recovering Asus bios password

[Spakye]

Hello, this is my first post on the forum, my apologies if i don't post in the right place.
Im trying to recover an asus bios password using this method.
I follow every step and it seems to work out well because i get a password but sadly the password doesn't work.
In my case, there is 2 times the same string that perfectly match the decyption hex, so my guess was that there is an user & an admin password and they are the same.
This is the string "0993C72677BA5C4DF3E012744407E89A0A2E8EC1E95444E89F7BFA0E55A2B0350BC9665CC1EF1C83".

I would really like to understand what im doing wrong.
I don't know if its relevant but the computer is an asus tuff FA506ICB-HN173 Motherboard DANJIMB18A0 Rev A

[Maxpower3]

I would really like to understand what im doing wrong.
I don't know if its relevant but the computer is an asus tuff FA506ICB-HN173 Motherboard DANJIMB18A0 Rev A

Same
post the complete bios
and serial number of the machine to respect the forum rules.
Have you tried cleaning the area?
The password comes back?

[Spakye]

Alright my bad here it is: backup.zip
Serial Number: N9NRCX10B441398

No i didn't try on this laptop, the full story is i bought 10 asus tuf laptops locked by bios password. My idea was to try to fix them to resell them.
Anyway, on the first laptop i tried to recover the password with the same method and the password i got was not working, i then tried to blank the password in the bin file but that didn't work either as the pc was still asking for a password.

I will try to clear that one also and see if it works this time.

[Maxpower3]

try

[Spakye]

So i did try to clear the password myself, it didnt work the laptop was still asking for a password.
Then i tried with your bin file and it worked!
Thank you very much, do you mind me asking what did you blank exactly? I see in your bin file you did remove the password the same way i did, did you do anything else?

[Maxpower3]

compare with HxD and F6 and look difference

[Spakye]

ok i took a look i get the idea, thank you very much!

[volinakis]

Same
post the complete bios
and serial number of the machine to respect the forum rules.
Have you tried cleaning the area?
The password comes back?

i think is Raf040909 (for sure he has french layout keyboard). BTW, your xls decrypter file works great but sometimes it misses a special character, i.e. it missed "!" at the end of password.

[volinakis]

Hello, this is my first post on the forum, my apologies if i don't post in the right place.
Im trying to recover an asus bios password using this method.
I follow every step and it seems to work out well because i get a password but sadly the password doesn't work.
In my case, there is 2 times the same string that perfectly match the decyption hex, so my guess was that there is an user & an admin password and they are the same.
This is the string "0993C72677BA5C4DF3E012744407E89A0A2E8EC1E95444E89F7BFA0E55A2B0350BC9665CC1EF1C83".

I would really like to understand what im doing wrong.
I don't know if its relevant but the computer is an asus tuff FA506ICB-HN173 Motherboard DANJIMB18A0 Rev A

decrypted passwords are for US layout keyboard, if you use external USB US keyboard it will work or try Raf040909 from your french layout laptop keyboard.

[Maxpower3]

well seen,
for the descriptor, yes some errors, I will look at that occasionally

[Spakye]

Well i won't try on this laptop because thanks to Maxpower there is no more password.
But i've just opened an other one and tried the same thing and it doesnt work aswell.
Ive tried Cqlvisqc & Calvisac, Ive tried to look up for differences other than A-Q on US-FR keyboard but nothing that would matter for this password. Not sure what else i can do. I don't have an US keyboard sadly.
Serial Number: N4NRCX05N534165

[hoaca388]

Well i won't try on this laptop because thanks to Maxpower there is no more password.
But i've just opened an other one and tried the same thing and it doesnt work aswell.
Ive tried Cqlvisqc & Calvisac, Ive tried to look up for differences other than A-Q on US-FR keyboard but nothing that would matter for this password. Not sure what else i can do. I don't have an US keyboard sadly.
Serial Number: N4NRCX05N534165

If decode fails, delete password.

[Spakye]

If decode fails, delete password.

Yes I will try, just wanted to see if im missing something.

[volinakis]

Well i won't try on this laptop because thanks to Maxpower there is no more password.
But i've just opened an other one and tried the same thing and it doesnt work aswell.
Ive tried Cqlvisqc & Calvisac, Ive tried to look up for differences other than A-Q on US-FR keyboard but nothing that would matter for this password. Not sure what else i can do. I don't have an US keyboard sadly.
Serial Number: N4NRCX05N534165

it means you have 2nd password, if you compare 1st bios you see it repeats 2 times, meaning bios pass and/or power on pass/hdd pass are the same.
2nd password is: calvisac (with small c)

[Spakye]

try Calvisac

I tried already it didn't work, i will try to clear it.
Thank you for helping out.

[volinakis]

I tried already it didn't work, i will try to clear it.
Thank you for helping out.

I modified my post, try calvisac (with small c)

[Spakye]

Found it!
As i was going to clear it i was looking through the bin file and found an hex almost identical to the one posted above, the only difference is it start with 38 instead of 18 which gives a "c" instead of a "C".
I then tried "calvisac" and it worked.
Lesson learned for next time. Thank you guys for the help.