Re: HP ProBook 450 G3

I appreciate that. If there is a non-invasive solution that doesn't require soldering or replacing the motherboard, I'd like to thoroughly explore. But the tool to generate the SMC bin is available and I have it, It's called WNDMIFIT, which is explained in the pdf attached in my first post. This file/program was downloaded from this forum.

Re: HP ProBook 450 G3

Thanks for the reply. On the assumption that the SMC method was disabled through bios updates, would it not be true that in some cases, perhaps even my own, where the bios was not updated post 2019, that the SMC solution might indeed work?

Re: HP ProBook 450 G3

This might be late coming, but have same issue with forgotten bios password, laptop still operable but I can't install a new OS, modify an existing OS, run live cds etc. After researching the topic seems its 1, replacement motherboard, 2. desolder the bios chip, and either direct replacement, or place the old bios in a reader, dump the bios and using hex editor zero out the password and rewrite to bios, resolder into place. I'm wondering has anyone had any success using either DMIFIT and WNDMIFIT to create a smc.bin for this model. Apparently using the bios...