Do you know of any particular EC programmer that can work with MEC1724? Even on the hardware support list of the SVOD 4, it doesn't explicitly mention supporting the MEC17xx series... Don't see it on the Vertyanov support list, either.

Fair enough, thank you for your guidance. I will go ahead and read up on some of the Badcap guides to see what can be done, and update progress here if I ever make any.

I have a laptop that was purchased second-hand, and I am able to boot Windows on and extract the BIOS dump (ONLY the BIOS region, I was unable to dump anything else due to an FCERR I received trying to dump the other regions) and use normally. However, because the BIOS is locked with a supervisor password, I am unable to use anything else except for Windows, and it has also disabled some hardware features of the laptop itself, such as the fingerprinting module, etc. that I really do wish to use.

I have been digging around for nearly 2 weeks trying to find any mention of the same model...