Re: HP ZBook 17 G2 Locked BIOS Administrator

Hi,

Thanks for your response. I managed to get the chip flashed ( took many attempts to get a good attachment with the clip ). Unfortunately whilst flashrom wrote and verified the chip, I could not start the laptop. It flashes a few times, then the fan kicks in and it sits there - nothing on the screen.

Maybe I got the wrong chip? Or have to reset something else.

There is another winbond chip on the motherboard. I have attached that dump file just in case.

I'm open to any suggestions!...

HP ZBook 17 G2 Locked BIOS Administrator

Hi All,

New to the forum and to reading & writing BIOS chips.

I brought an HP Zbook 17 G2 from eBay and discovered that it has a BIOS Administrator password. Got nowhere googling and HP do not supply smc.bin files to unlock the system.

I think I managed to get a bios dump from the machine. The programmer identified the bios as W25Q128.V (16384 kB, SPI). I have attached this in the hopes it is useful.

Laptop: HP Zbook 17 G2
Bios Version: M70 Ver. 01.24
Motherboard:...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi All,

I'm Paul, and I'm trying to fix an HP Zbook 17 G2 with a password protected Bios.

Found this forum, so hopefully I can get some help.