W10 probably was Encrypted with Bitlocker,
the Keys are in the Cloud of MS.
you dont own Nothing.
probably also has Optane,
disable Optane, most laptops have a secret menu in the bios/uefi.
the only way to format / erase install over encrypted NVMe+Optane.
without Optane f6 drivers.
W11 was strange, i deleted W11, and installed Linux.
Windows is better in a VirtualMachine that has 3D Acceleration for games.
but problem is the OEM keys stored in the UEFI,
there is a software to read the Keys, but… some VM Machines require Pro or True Home version, Not OEM.
OEM Keys when activated are locked to Hardware.
Pro allows to change Hardware and Reactivate.
Home Not.
WTG “Windows To Go” requites Enterprise.
If you made a System Image Backup of W10 you can restore Encrypted with Windows USB Recovery drive or installer iso.
if you didnt, and its encrypted… call Bill. LOL.™
it seems that cleaning/re-initializing the ME partition has not been very effective so far.
by the way can you tell me how to turn off Measured Boot and Verified Boot.
Why did you want to clean the ME region / what does “but everything still can’t work.” mean??
As written it seems that you either put together the different regions in a wrong way or just flashed the 10 MB bios region alone. At least there in the programmer windows flashing content starts with NVRAM (first part of bios region) which is completely wrong. Use UEFIToolNE for structure and UEFITool or hex edit for changing complete regions.
I just want the computer to run again. sorry i am not professional in this. My editing or cleaning is quite messy, but so far, flashing the bios for the computer to work has not worked.
Measured boot and verified boot is the Boot Guard Profile setting in FIT, but this setting is fused into the PCH and can’t be changed after manufacturing mode is closed.
Forget about MEInfo, it requires a booted system, result would’ve been relevant for the question regarding measured / verified boot.
The structure of the images look good, but there’s corruption in one NVRAM store with an incomplete setup variable as last entry. That might be one reason.
Thank you so much for your help and listening all this time. It’s really precious.
I downloaded the ME Analyzer update! the latest but they don’t seem to work on the machine so I edit this bios file. adding the dll doesn’t cause it to launch either. Windows 7 is overwhelmed with new things. when I switched to windows 11 I was able to read them without any errors. Thanks again for the advice.
Where did you get the firmware from?
I got it from user yezishu here:
this is the only option I can find on the internet so far
This file is different from the file in the other thread you linked but you used it for all your tries. Seems to come from the same machine, but do you remember where you did find this file?
You might try the original file from the linked thread, but I don’t think this will work either. QC7 0114 dumped bios ch341.zip (7.1 MB)
Unfortunately bios 114 isn’t available any longer, so it’s not possible to check what the correct 114 binary is. But anyway- since a clean stock bios doesn’t work this bios won’t work either.
Would’ve been good to have a complete backup of your original backup, but anyway.
all i had on hand after the device was bricked was this file
it completely lacks the bios region part, so I cut the bios region part from the bios file that user yezishu uploaded in the article above to merge it into the testcompare01 file
Still unclear, couldn’t have worked this way as the part you could “save” was ønly 2 MB and flash descriptor and me-region are already 6 MB, bios region 10 MB.
I have to say that my file is LAPQC71A BIOS, which means GTX1660Ti, It may be different from your RTX version. Also, I don’t know whether or not the method “cut the bios region part from the bios file” works. I can only confirm that it should work if you flash it completely to QC71A.
unfortunately I couldn’t find anyone else with a bios of LAPQC71B. why is it so hard the bios downloaded on the homepage of retailers and intel themselves listed them (LAPQC71A and LAPQC71B) as common to all drivers and bios so I thought they could be used together, that’s the last hope I could find.
You shouldn’t use and the user may not share the files with you, if it contains his mainboard original data, like MAC, UUID, SN, etc…
Make a dump of the SPI of your system.
I also had the same problem as yours. So how much space is left in the bios file after the failed update takes place?
I also have a similar computer still running here, but it seems that copying the working computer’s bios to the computer with the broken bios doesn’t fix the problem.
it still cannot run.
Sorry but I think you are knowledgeable in this matter.
So is there any way to make the bios file of a running device compatible with other devices of the same type?
Same model and hardware, yes it should be possible…
Now was it done with a programmer? Is correctly verified after programmed, did you dumped again and compared? This is tiny details that matters… of course, it can also fail and the method doesn’t work with that machine… general rule it works.
And remember that some boards have other ICs besides the main bios, like tpm, me and ec
