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Embedded Controller issues, living an absolute H*LL with my ASUS Vivobook Pro 16X OLED
I've been dealing with so many complications for months, trying to find and then fix the root cause of the issue I really need help and I have to solve this on my own (Going to Asus headquarters isn't an option for me. First, because I'm very stubborn and want to insist that I can fix this sort-of-myself somehow, and second, the location is too far away for me anyway).
Right now I'm desperate trying to put an end to this nightmare, but OK, I'll do my best to be somewhat brief in explaining and relating the entire situation and context.
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...
Having a hard time dumping BIOS - Lenovo Ideapad Duet 3 (11IAN8)
Hello everyone,
I'm having a hard time dumping the BIOS of a Lenovo Ideapad Duet 3 (11IAN8). The chip is a Winbond W25R256JVEN, directly soldered to the board in a WSON8 package.
Since there are lots of tiny components near the chip, I was hesitant to desolder it using hot air. Instead, I soldered thin wires directly to the chip's pads and connected them to a CH341A programmer (photos attached).
The chip is detected correctly in both NeoProgrammer and ASProgrammer, but I'm unable to get a consistent dump. I've tried over 15 times — shortened the wires to...
Everyone is buying the wrong CH341A programmer, I have learned from my mistake. Don't buy the Black one or Green one.
Buy this one in the photo. Most stable and all your common problems (reading but not writing/erasing, software hanging, disconnects after attaching chip, test cable connected but chip not found/ device disconnected) will be gone.
Otherwise you'll have to solder capacitor from GND to VCC if you have those symptoms in your black or green miniprogrammer....
HP ProDesk 400 G6 mini - BIOS Password attempt to remove it
Hi,
as noobie to this please excuse my lack of experience.
I am trying to remove a BIOS password from this machine: HP ProDesk 400 G6 Mini
but so far I still have no success.
I bought CH341 programmer and decided to give it a try.
The programmer came with 8 pin cables and connectors or whatever everything else is called so I had to buy a new 16 pin cable because the chip which I think is the BIOS is with 16 pins..
I connected everything and downloaded AsProgrammer and NeoProgrammer then installed drivers...