Thank you so much ...

This download is broken too, need to ID some components under the x16 slot latch "PQ3006 and PQ3003" someone knocked them off with a screwdriver. PQ3006 has a marking WCJ 02 and the other one is just gone...

Any possible why that you could extract the EC image from the Dell BIOS file for me?...

unfortunately the laptop is still doing the same thing, powers on, with only caps lock light. Maybe the EC?

one of the caps that sits next to the PCH reads 1,2v I don't have a boardview, but I just checked and the board will power off and reboot from linux, so I'm thinking it's a corrupted ME region or something, I flashed the bios from MSI with the programmer and UEFITool said it had the ME region, but IDK. this board is strange.

I have a MSI Z370-A Pro. The board does not reboot or shut down from the Windows recovery console. USB communications stop and the status light on USB 1 stays on and does not blink. I have programmed a new BIOS with a CH341A programmer already, swapped RAM, PSU, CPU. The board will power off when the power button is held and resets when the reset switch is pressed, but it will not react to the reset switch if already told by software to shut down or restart. The board will reboot from BIOS after a save and exit command.

The MSI BIOS included the ME firmware for the board. The size...

I have a Dell G15 5525 that charges, responds to the power button, and pulls ~12 W with the battery disconnected. Fans spin, but there’s no internal or external video, and the caps lock LED stays on. I’ve checked power rails — all look good, no shorts found.

The laptop shows a blink code of 2 orange, 3 white. I suspect a corrupt BIOS or EC issue. I tried BIOS recovery via USB (battery disconnected, original adapter, etc.), but it didn’t work. I have the full 25Q256JWEQ SPI dump. I need help creating a hybrid BIOS image that updates the main BIOS while preserving the board-specific...