I think you are right
Googled the numbers (best I could)
“e4 25Q128 13EDF 99 CHK 65215N bios chip”
And I saw the almost identical image from the following post.
I will start shopping for the tool you mentioned…
stay tuned 
Buddy… There’s nothing like a visual inspection of your own IC, Asus and other OEMs will implement several models, yours could be not a 25Q128.
The location is correct and it’s the main SPI IC for the mb model.
Latest bios 1302 flash chips in VSCC table:
EF4018 (Winbond W25Q128)
20BA18 (Micron N25Q128)
C84018 (GigaDevice GD25x128)
EDIT: I didn’t understand if the shared photo was indeed of your board or taken from another user on the web, if its yours, all good.
Here is a close up
How do you mean “yours could be not a 25Q128.”?
Those are the first set of numbers at the top.
25Q128A 13EDF 99 CHN 65215N
Just trying to understand what you are saying…
Just trying to learn…
I have ordered Style A kit here
That should help me read the chips.
I saw a few on Amazon but they would have cost me $50 (including taxes)
Could of bought it even cheaper if I knew exactly what I needed in a kit…
Won’t see it till close to February.
Thanks for the links
Let you know when I scan the chip.
Later
just make sure you get a backup of whats on that chip and never delete that backup just in case.
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