Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

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  • Prott
    Senior Member
    • May 2022
    • 154
    • Czechia

    #121
    Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

    I have a similar problem Lulinha - updated the bios week ago, then it was stuck in a logo loop (turns on for a few second and then off). After cleaning the ME region it still persists, with an exception of the logo being displayed only a second instead of two.

    I wonder if the corrupted update destroyed something else in the bios other than the ME region and that's why replacing the ME with a clean one won't help.
    The surefire way would be (I assume) to take a working bios from other Surface and adapt it to our models (not sure what are the other device specific variables besides a serial number / computrace), but I am not savvy enough to do that yet. Can't find a software to edit those variables or a place in the bios file where I could change them manually with a hex editor.

    If anybody has any tip for more resources regarding this, please let me know. If I will find a way to fix my bios I will update with a solution.
    Last edited by Prott; 03-06-2023, 11:13 AM.

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    • isa198585
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2020
      • 71
      • austria

      #122
      Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

      I have a bootloop with a BIOS chip, and even without a BIOS chip, can it be that something else is defective?

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      • isa198585
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2020
        • 71
        • austria

        #123
        Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

        maybe some components are missing, can someone compare that with their own motherboard.
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        • Prott
          Senior Member
          • May 2022
          • 154
          • Czechia

          #124
          Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

          Originally posted by isa198585
          maybe some components are missing, can someone compare that with their own motherboard.
          I have a different revision of the board, but let me check anyway and take photos. Will update as soon as I am back after a dog walk. Can you remove the headpipe and check also under it?

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          • Prott
            Senior Member
            • May 2022
            • 154
            • Czechia

            #125
            Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

            Here it is. Let me know if you would like photos of anything particular. I can take them with a microscope.

            EDIT: Sorry about the fluff. Have to ultrasonic it later.
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            Last edited by Prott; 03-08-2023, 12:17 PM.

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            • Prott
              Senior Member
              • May 2022
              • 154
              • Czechia

              #126
              Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

              Does anybody have a working dump of the SAM bios? It has it's own flash memory (MX25U1635EZUI) which might be the culprit in this case.

              I checked the signals and it seems as if the SAM is not even attempting to enable the phase for the CPU. It enables the logo to be displayed, turns on the backlight and then craps out.

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              • Prott
                Senior Member
                • May 2022
                • 154
                • Czechia

                #127
                Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                UPDATE: My theory is that during a bios update the PMC region got corrupted to a point that the PMC can't turn on the Surface properly anymore. Without turning on the main CPU it can't get a new (uncorrupted) update from the main BIOS flash for the suplementary PMC flash, because updating of the PMC flash needs the main CPU to be active to access the main bios flash.

                I will try to grab the PMC region from the known good bios and write it to the PMC bios flash manually. Let's see :-)

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                • Prott
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2022
                  • 154
                  • Czechia

                  #128
                  Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                  I successfully dumped the PCH flash, however none of the unpacked files in bios seems to match it with it's size. Attaching the bin.

                  Maybe someone with more knowledge can point me to where I can find a working PCH / LPC54S firmware?
                  Or is somebody generous enough to dump their working PCH/SAM flash? :-)

                  I am pretty sure a corrupted PCH firmware is the culprit of, at least, some of the boot loop / logo hanging issues (PCH starting the boot sequence but hanging short of enabling the power rails for the cpu).
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                  • ajbernasko
                    Badcaps Veteran
                    • Mar 2022
                    • 229
                    • ghana

                    #129
                    Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                    Hi, please surface has MDM enrolled, please help me to remove. was locked before but i was able to clear password. Thank you
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                    • MarcelineJocelyn
                      New Member
                      • Jan 2023
                      • 1
                      • Ukraine

                      #130
                      Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                      Is it possible to collect dump bios from scratch for microsoft surface pro 7 1866?

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                      • Smeek
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2021
                        • 60
                        • România

                        #131
                        Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                        Please unlock my bios dump. i have bios password and i cant boot from USB
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                        • AAAC
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                          • Jan 2020
                          • 457
                          • Mexico

                          #132
                          Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                          @Smeek
                          Password removed and Computrace deactivated.
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                          • Smeek
                            Senior Member
                            • Sep 2021
                            • 60
                            • România

                            #133
                            Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                            Originally posted by AAAC
                            @Smeek
                            Password removed and Computrace deactivated.
                            working great, thank you
                            I have one more with the same issue, if you can help me i appreciate
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                            • AAAC
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                              • Jan 2020
                              • 457
                              • Mexico

                              #134
                              Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                              @Smeek
                              Here's the other file.
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                              • Smeek
                                Senior Member
                                • Sep 2021
                                • 60
                                • România

                                #135
                                Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                                Originally posted by AAAC
                                @Smeek
                                Here's the other file.
                                still locked, can t do nothing on BIOS, USB can t boot

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                                • AAAC
                                  Badcaps Veteran
                                  • Jan 2020
                                  • 457
                                  • Mexico

                                  #136
                                  Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                                  @Smeek
                                  All I can tell is that the BIOS "AWORD" variable is different, in the first file it contains a hash and in the second file it only contains the DEADDEADh hex string, I've only invalidated this "AWORD" variable in both files, but it only worked on the first BIOS file.

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                                  • fredyjbi
                                    Senior Member
                                    • Feb 2021
                                    • 144
                                    • malaysia

                                    #137
                                    please help surface pro 7 fix the bios on until the 2 second logo turns off


                                    please help surface pro 7 fix the bios on until the 2 second logo turns off, thank's
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                                    • aldopc
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                                      • Jul 2017
                                      • 464
                                      • Chilito

                                      #138
                                      Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                                      Originally posted by Smeek
                                      still locked, can t do nothing on BIOS, USB can t boot
                                      Test and comments
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                                      • bin_adam
                                        Member
                                        • Jan 2023
                                        • 15
                                        • Nigeria

                                        #139
                                        Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                                        Please help surface 7 pro bios password fix
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                                        • AAAC
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                                          • Jan 2020
                                          • 457
                                          • Mexico

                                          #140
                                          Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 NEED BIOS. HELP!

                                          @bin_adam
                                          Password removed and Computrace disabled.
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