HP Elitebook 8560p BIOS chip replacement problem: ME is in recovery state

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@danielfon

problem: “PDR Region does not exist”.

Not problem but information

@danielfon

and using “fpt -d bios.bin”, my problem is: “the host cpu does not have write access to the target flash area”

Instead of posting and deleting the same post 3 times you might’ve as well tried the search function of this forum:

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