"Inside the EC’s own MCU flash (again, not in the external EC SPI we patched — lives on the Nuvoton/ITE microcontroller itself).
-than I think I found the responsable chip. NUVOTON NPCX499HA tells you anything ?-
Yes — that’s your Embedded Controller (EC).
The Nuvoton NPCX499HA is a high-end EC MCU HP uses in newer EliteBooks to handle:
- Keyboard, battery, fan control
- Power sequencing
- Firmware verification for HP Sure Start
- Storing/triggering the BIOS recovery payload
Here’s the key point:
- It
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