Good morning. I have an Asus Q170M-C motherboard with a BIOS password. I tried reprogramming the chip with a dump but it stops producing video output. On Asus’s website there is a .CAP file but it isn’t a correct BIOS.
Here is the original BIOS file I read.
Could someone remove the password for me?
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Decrypt it or blank it.
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Good afternoon. I’ve been trying both options for hours and it still doesn’t work. In the end, I’m going to break the chip’s pins from taking it out and putting it back in.
I don’t know what to do.
Very strange an image edited from the CAP file wont work, thousands of Asus MB 100 series recovered in this way, using a blank file.
Hello,
I’m interested in your problem, and although I’m not an expert, I’ve noticed that the original BIOS has an extra 1 KB and its Intel ME version is 11.0.0.1168. If we download the latest BIOS version from the manufacturer’s website, the Intel ME version is much newer than the original, as it’s 11.8.65.3590.
Therefore, I looked for an older version with an Intel ME version closer to the original and found this one.
I hope this helps.
Q170M-C BIOS v0244.zip (8.7 MB)
Good evening. It works. Thank you very much for sending me the file. I’m very grateful. It took a little while to display video, but the motherboard is working.
I don’t know if it’s too much to ask, but which programs did you use to edit and modify the BIOS?
Thank you.
Greetings,
I’m glad to hear it worked for you.
The programs I used are UEFITools: Releases · LongSoft/UEFITool · GitHub
and HxD, which is a hexadecimal editor (I used it to view the contents of the .bin file).
I used UEFITools to extract the necessary BIOS data (the important parts) from the .CAP file.
In this case, as I mentioned, I looked for an older version that was more compatible with the computer’s original BIOS.