[Request] Unlock advanced menu on 2019 Acer Predator Helios 300 PH315-52




Yep before it was working and rebooting with stock settings for bios not now iam stucked and pissed off a bit :slight_smile:

Fans running, black (blank) screen at startup …

How could the bios settings not be reseted with cmos clearing …
I dont understand bios is corrupted only anwser for me …

Yep, PL1 is 70W

Actually this is the reason



Its max power consumption 240W while our is 180W
And our power supply is 180W so we have no any chance to pull 60W more

I hope you will recover your pc

you could try to buy a 240W power supply and try to take its bios for modding and try we should have bought this one instead of the acer :slight_smile: but no wallmart in my country :wink: and toll taxes are so high from USA to France …

If nothing helps, you can buy SPI programmer and flash my dump directly to the chip

But then please make sure to flash your own on top using FPPT coz I wouldn’t like that some ethical hackers fly around with my mac addresses and guids

Software and hardware are two separe world buddy iam good in software i not in hardware that’s a fact :slight_smile:

And guess what i can penetrate in all the systeme i want with my own tools …

And it’s my first laptop always had pc tower ! my last pc was a corequad Q9550E1 … long time ago …

Overclocking, settings in bios have evolved and the therminology with it !

No bios flasher needed at all :slight_smile:

so to put in a nutshell you make a a fat32 bootable thumbdrive

you extract from the acer bios1.8.EXE file the bios.fd file (using 7+zip or Universal extractor)

Then you download Phonix/Inside tool lauch Phoenixtool.exe you load the .fd file and it will figure out for you if you need to rename the .fd file, if it says yes rename it to BIOS.fd

copy it to usb drive, then you download WinCrisis and extract and copy files : minidos.sys, phlash.exe and bios.wph on usb also

unplugged the power cable and the battery

press 10sec power button

press and hold fn+ esc while pluging the power cable and then press power button while maintaining fn+esc keys

wait 5 sec that the fans are spinning and release the keys

bios recovery starts up and it take 3 minutes to revive your bricked laptop

and will restart boom ! you are back alive laptop !


… so problem fixed !

I’m afraid you don’t have choice))
And it’s very easy actually but you need to disassemble laptop and remove motherboard
Maybe you can repair by warranty but you removed heatsink

On question Hyppo cuz usb flash didnt work as expected :slight_smile:

if i buy a spi programmer i can reflash the rom with the bios which was made by Lost right ?

@saltinbank I’m not sure, you can check my dump and yours and compare, at least size must be equal I guess

One question regarding vbios, were you able to flash 90w version? Can you share it?

Done already look my all my previous post ive shared it already but you dont need it acer bios allows 91W with turbo mode enabled…

One more question hyppo can you give thé reference of usb spi programmer and Soic wires you are using need help so many on the market need it to order one asap ?!

@saltinbank Really? Turbo increases graphic TDP from 80 to 90W? That’s cool then I can increase frequencies more

You need 2 things they cost around $20
- USB programmer EEPROM 24xx/25xx on CH341A
- Clip CH341A SOP8/SOIC8

Thank hyppo you are the one …

Download hwinfo 64 look at the tab for the gpu monitor this meanwhile you are benchmarking iam pulling 91W @1800 MHz !!!

Ordered https://imgshare.io/image/eMOEy

good
you can start disassemble and remove motherboard meanwhile, I also think you can keep cooling system and remove mobo and cooling together just remove fans and unscrew one screw from cooling

This is why I don’t like software method of bios unlocking
Yesterday I was playing tuning latencies and after some changes in bios laptop was bricked, nothing helped, pressing power for 12 sec, remove batteries, memory, nothing
After powering on keyboard light up, fans spinned and stopped, screen is black, and it gets hell hot
Imagine if I would not have real hardware dump, what could I do?

Bit fortunately I had my dump and trusty CH341A programmer, I flashed a dump and now it’s alive)

I’m pretty sure it was a menu ICC/OC menu and parameter ICC/OC spread value, value (47% by default)
Now I know that with some changes in bios (not related to gpu), laptop can be bricked

Hi,

I have dead Bios chip on my Helios 300 ph315-52.

I already have new chip w25q80 soldered on motherboard but now I need dump to program it via ch341.

Can someone post dump?

thanks

@zmay2509 hey w25q80 is not a bios
the bios chip is on opposite side of the motherboard, I explained in the beginning of the thread
anyway I have a dump from both chips

Hi Hyppo,

Can you send me link with BIOS back up?
And can I know your set up is it 9750 and 2060?

Thanks for pointing out that BIOS chip is under!

I have both dumps with 9750H+1660ti and 9750H+2060
This one is with 2060
https://www.sendspace.com/file/j3ukw0

Thanks Hyppo!!

Great news I finally have working laptop again :slight_smile:

Now I have problem with serial number and everything that dump replaced Mac addres…

I have insyde EZE tool can I do it with that?

Is it a easy fix?

Thanks again