So, i come bearing news.

it was in fact there, the 8fc8 patcher did its job. I promptly wiped the chip, flashed the unlocked bios, verified ic integrity, aaaaand it's dead.
On the first boot it was spinning the fans top speed and after a minute or so it died, now is not responsive.

Now i assume me taking out chips left and right, heating up the bloody thing may or may not have something to do with it being bricked now. Still this was a learning experience and i do feel i learned a lot. Even if i have nothing to show for it.
i did try reseating all the...

Unless it's this fella right here...

The second chip i have out is 8mb and i can't seem to locate another one on the motherboard that looks the part.
This one also doesnt contain the 8fc8 hex

the two spots i circled are where the two chips come from...

i have the other "bios looking chip" dessoudered as well, will try that and come back with an update....

So, i kinda spend significant ammount of the last couple of days trying to flash a new bios, and or unlocking the current bios password with little to no results.
The whole thing started with it being the 8fc8 bios, i found the tools to unlock that but i needed a bios dump. So i pursued that, im at a point where i dessoudered the chip, and succesfully soudered it to the ch341, dumped whatever was on it.
However, the tools supposed to unlock the 8fc8 say that there is no 8fc8 hex inside. And when i followed diffrent tutorials to just flash a new bios onto the chip i got stuck on the...