Bios chip is a Winbond 25r256jweq. I have a CH341A programmer and I've already pulled up pin 28 and attached it and pin 9 to 3.3v, and tested the voltages. I have the 1.8v hat for it, as well as a SOP8 clip, but the pins don't reach because the chip is a SMD no lead footprint. I've had 1 person tell me the replacement bios chip that can be had on eBay for $30 is only to remove the password, and that the original would have to be soldered back on afterwards. I'm not 100% comfortable soldering that chip off then on then off then back on again. I was trying to use the SOP8 clip to get a viable Bios dump because I saw on this site that most Asus boards use AMI and are able to get the original passwords if I could get a good dump img. So I have some conflicting information and I'm trying to figure out how to proceed. I also saw some probe clips on Amazon that look like they may be able to touch the pins long enough for a Bios dump, but I don't know which ones to get. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Try a pogo adapter. You just need to measure the chip and get the right one as there are 2 sizes, 6X5 and 8X6 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001830846980.htmlComment
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Hello! Can someone help me with a bios file? I am getting ACPI_BIOS_ERROR
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Long story short:
- dad converted Asus Chromebox CN62 into Windows compatible, with mrchromebox BIOS, years and years ago
- gave the computer to his son a couple years later
- son now decided to revert it to Chrome OS, to sell it as original (re-writing BIOS with the backup one created by his dad)
- too lazy to remove the board from the case, thought a voltage regulator was the BIOS chip (you know... it has 8 legs)
(seems like the story was not that short)
He used alligator clips to read the chip. No luck reading it. Removed chip and placed on a SOC-8... -
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I have a very strange issue with the BIOS SPI chip of an ASRock B650M PRO RS motherboard.
The SPI chip is an Winbond 25Q256JWEQ model (1V8).
The motherbaord doas not POST - it lits only CPU and DRAM EZ Debug Leds, and stays that way forever.
The Flashback function of the motherbaord is also not working, despite all instructions followed correctly - I'm 100% sure of this.
I have then desoldered the chip, backupped the contents, and tried to earease the chip in order to program stock image, but the chip is locked by status registers SREG2 (TB) and SREG6... -
With ASUS, not everything is quite so simple. I will show you my way. It may be longer or harder but it is the right way to do it in my humble opinion.
For example, you can have 3 similar ASUS motherboards, all being the same model, all of which will have different BIOS versions.
I will give you an example and my version of preparing BIOS from ASUS website and in the process I am always cleaning Intel ME while doing it so you have fully cleaned BIOS, no DMI data, no password, nothing.
This is the picture of 3 similar ASUS motherboards, all of them being X555LD... -
Hello Community,
I recently tried to change the Batterie on my Omen by HP Laptop 17 an104ng and after putting in the new batterie ([Batterie Link](https://www.amazon.de/7xinbox-17-AN0...&keywords=16%2... -
ASUS ROG Ally X - (Handheld Gaming PC)
Model No: RC72LA
Serial No: SBNVKD001014459
Hi all, I've spent the past week digging through the forums and guides to try correct my foolish mistake of changing hidden settings while tinkering around, and to be honest my heads overloaded so I'm hoping you'll be able to help.
I used a tool called 'Smokeless-UMAF' to access usually hidden settings in the bios. I tweaked one or two 'safe' things but made the mistake of tweaking a lot of settings under 'USB/Thunderbolt Configurations' when I didn't know what they did. For...
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