Indeed! I have been actually looking at the firmware of that machine for some time now haha, I think I found the place where a modification could be made.
First things first though, we’d need a dump of your BIOS, I can only do so much with what comes in the firmware upgrade from Acer, but I still don’t know which ME version it has (could be 12, could be 13, could be something else) and the tool to read and write to the BIOS from Windows needs to match it.
So let’s try the following:
- Ensure you don’t have any password set in the BIOS setup, just in case.
- Download the following file, and extract its contents in a folder: 3.26 MB file on MEGA
- I have put there the tool you’d need (later) if your ME is one of those, if not we’ll get the right one later.
- Now, right click “Dump BIOS v12” and choose to run it as an administrator. See if you get an output similar to this one:
Disregard that warning, that screenshot was taken some other time, the interesting thing is being able to get that “BIOS.bin”. If it went well, good, upload that file somewhere and post a link to it here. If it didn’t, try doing the same again, but with “Dump BIOS v13.0”.