@Savage.exe I would try the simple things first. Get ahold of whichever company "manufactured" your laptop (Clevo themselves, Sager, Schenker...
@Savage.exe You can get it pre-programmed, (I do not recommend it), but you need to MAKE SURE it gets programmed with your MAC address,...
And solder it to the motherboard...of course...
@Savage.exe If it did say EEPROM then it is indeed the BIOS... The fact that it crapped out like that makes me believe it's the chip itself......
@Savage.exe Have you tried removing RAM and trying one module at a time?
@Savage.exe You can also program the BIOS chip with a Raspberry Pi, if you happen to have access to one...
@Savage.exe AFAIK It will need to be done with a FAT32 formatted USB 2.0 flash drive (USB stick) 4gb or less!!! It MUST be an un-modified...
Something like this, with the SOIC8 test clip... https://www.aliexpress.com/i/32300047786.html [img]
@Savage.exe Oh no...that sucks! Do you have an old (4gb or less) USB stick? You should be able to use the FN+F2 BIOS recovery method to get...
@Savage.exe You could ask someone that I consider an authority on the subject, very politely, for his assistance unlocking it for you. :cool:...
@Meaker@Sager Assuming the board is a P15SM running Win 10 x64, BIOS 1.03.05, KBC/EC 1.03.01TR, and originally came with a "Clevo" GTX 770M...
@Savage.exe @Meaker@Sager I have not been able to find any key-press BIOS unlock method for the AMI Aptio BIOS' and nobody else I have spoken...
@Meaker@Sager Thank you ;)
@Savage.exe You mentioned that you modified the vBIOS...that's what I am curious about. What did you do and how?
@Meaker@Sager Not that it's needed, obviously, (and likely different between re-sellers?) but do you know if a key-press BIOS unlock method...
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