Surface Pro 6 - Physically Broken Bios Chip

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  • Evostar
    New Member
    • Jun 2022
    • 5
    • Australia

    #1

    Surface Pro 6 - Physically Broken Bios Chip

    Hi Everyone and thank you for having me!

    I recently own a 2nd hand i5/8GB/256GB Black Edition Surface Pro 6, which was an upgrade from my Pro 4 which had display issues.

    Issues arose with the Surface 6 when I got home and went to do my usual clean and custom Wim image of W11Home I debloated.

    fire up the recovery usb > cmd > diskpart > see disk 0 > clean..... (worst mistake this time around)

    Well little did I know I can't actually write to the efi partition anymore due to a setting in the uefi. no worries ill disable it! So I restart enter the uefi procedure and I'm in!!!,,,.... wait! what!!! password?!... (I hadn't seen the before due to my Surface 4 not having one..)

    Any way I found a way to bypass the efi by using a FFU DISM backup of a fresh install on my Surface 4 and then Applying it to my Surface 6 from the USB recovery, all goes well and I go on my way happy for a few days...

    To be honest though, that password is just bugging me... I just want it gone, is I go down the rabbit hole of looking into flashing the bios to remove the password lockout.

    So I heat her up take her off the board, and pull out my cheapo Chinese black 341a I had from a long while back.

    what could go wrong at this point?

    I'll tell you... I drop the programmer with my chip installed to floor by accident whilst moving across the room. and well lets just say I am so angry at myself. so close to having a backup but then breaking the thing just before.

    So my question is...

    How Can I salvage this chip to get a dump of my bios?

    here is the pic of the disaster board....



    thanks for listening.
  • hoaca388
    Badcaps
    • Jan 2022
    • 11548
    • Viet Nam

    #2
    Re: Surface Pro 6 - Physically Broken Bios Chip

    https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showpo...5&postcount=10


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    • Evostar
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      • Jun 2022
      • 5
      • Australia

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      Re: Surface Pro 6 - Physically Broken Bios Chip

      Hi!, and thank you! (first 6 bios I could find) but surely it can't be that easy using a random bios file?

      I need to try dump my broken chip for the serial etc data?

      which pins on the bios chip are used for programming. (with y luck its both those that are broken....)

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      • hoaca388
        Badcaps
        • Jan 2022
        • 11548
        • Viet Nam

        #4
        Re: Surface Pro 6 - Physically Broken Bios Chip

        All 8 pins, but the chip broke, that's impossible.


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        • Evostar
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          • Jun 2022
          • 5
          • Australia

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          Re: Surface Pro 6 - Physically Broken Bios Chip

          yikes... ok I will stop chasing that route.

          I write down my windows key and took photos of my system about screen. assuming I could as best try transfer manually as much detail as possible to new chip by editing..

          I will keep reading and broken my knowledge. before I attempt

          thanks for your quick reply mate

          appreciated.

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          • Evostar
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            • Jun 2022
            • 5
            • Australia

            #6
            Re: Surface Pro 6 - Physically Broken Bios Chip

            Would anyone care to help me find info on specifics for changing Bios for Serial, touch, Windows key etc on Microsoft Surface Pro? many thanks

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