Model: HSC-Q001Dm
Serial: MXL4102Y9S
Board: DAF96AMB8G0 REV G
BIOS and EC (I think) here flash.zip - Google Drive.
Can someone please help in figuring out what values need to be changed in order to disable the password?
I’m pretty new to all this but pulled these bins from both WSON8 chips on the board
Seems you got help already:
The second chip isn’t ‘EC’, that’s firmware recovery and anti- tampering and at least some NVRAM variables might be protected. Hashes might get stored in the second chip and / or in the TPM
The guy on badcaps made some variables invalid (header AA 55 3F => AA 55 3C) , for example BuildID. That item might be quite close to your error message?
And no, I don’t know which variable to change. Just writing since I’ve seen some unrecoverable (If they recovered they at least didn’t write it here) bricks for systems with comparable protections.
Good luck! (Consider the option that the number of possible recovery procedures might be limited)
Hey there, just letting you know that I ended up fixing the red/white light issue. Ended up having the chip soldered backwards, flipped it and the system booted into BIOS with a password. Still trying to figure out the HEX values to change, some YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBzFOQeXoE) pointed to NvramActiveRegn but they said to do it on the EC, not BIOS, which I tried and still got a password.
I know you don’t have the answer, but just want to make it clear it was recovered.
Following your thread on badcaps- I’m very impressed how sweet-tempered this machine tolerates these procedures! These are impressing recovery capabilities!
Is anyone able to help here? Still have not found a solution
