[SOLVED] How to unlock BIOS options of rebranded TONGFANG chassis systems?




The Skip Scanning of External GFX Card Enabled may have been the issue. I am looking in my bios now to see if Reset which is what you are doing with my steps, do in fact reset those settings back to default or not.

Give me about 5 minutes.




The Skip Scanning of External GFX Card Enabled may have been the issue. I am looking in my bios now to see if Reset which is what you are doing with my steps, do in fact reset those settings back to default or not.

Give me about 5 minutes.




Ok I changed all the settings as you did and left primary display unchanged (SG) and I was able to reset them back to defaults with my steps but I did not try and boot with all those settings set at the same time. It is possible with all of those set at the same time, its preventing you from entering the Bios I really don’t know and do not want to try right now since I have already put my laptop back together a week ago.

The only other thing I can think of is those steps 8 across 6 down, enter, enter then 6 up enter, enter may be slightly different on yours just unsure of that?

Not much more I can do to help but maybe try one more right arrow or one less same with up and down in case your locations of those fields are in different places just not sure? I am sorry cannot think of anything else.

I understand @pcfr33k
cant thank you enough for persisting along with me. I shall do a few variations of your steps and update.
However, if you/@nimaim or anyone could tell me why bios is not resetting by plugging out battery/cmos, it would be big help.

Also, apart from above, other option would be via programmer ?

Thanks,




That is what totally throws me is disconnecting both batteries should make the bios reset to defaults and it is not. Maybe there is a set of keyboard commands that can be tried with some research to see if the Bios can be reset that way and yes when you use a programmer to flash the bios you should be up and running again.

Edited:

I went ahead and gave those settings a try and my Laptop boot up perfectly with those settings. You said you changed all the settings as you did except you changed primary display to [igfx] correct? I also tried setting primary display to PEG got the black screen did my procedure of arrows to get to reset and it did reset and I was backup running again.

Something else must of happened to your bios unsure really but I did try all your settings and I boot up fine then, with all your settings in place I went ahead and changed Primary Display to PEG and got a black screen and was still able to reset OP with my procedure of keyboard clicks.

I am afraid something else is wrong with the Bios and unable to explain why or what could have happened.

@pcfr33k

btw, I had set the bios boot in password as well :frowning:
is it nothing working because of this ?




Absolutely and should not be a big deal just try again the procedure but before any keyboard clicks type in password first then click F2 or did you set password for Bios or password for boot? You should still be able to do this blindly!!

Where and what was set I can set this and tell you the keyboard clicks or when to just type the password.

OMG, display comes back ! you were right all this time.
I thought bios reset would also imply bios password reset. however, I was googling and bios password reset doesnt happen.
I tried your blind instructions with password and it worked !!
Thanks so so much @pcfr33k
It was scary f u n :slight_smile:



Glad your up and running!!

So this doesn’t happen to you again enable CSM, create a dos bootable as I posted, remove any passwords. Keep it this way while testing settings in Bios and when all done testing do as you wish with Bios password etc. Also wait for the programmer before doing anything else for the 3rd way of recovery in case the first two ways don’t work no matter what!!

Also test the USB DOS boot but just rename the Bios to some bogus name so it won’t actually flash during your boot tests, unless you want to test the flash as well. If you create the USB boot exactly as I did you won’t have any issues for using this method as a 2nd way to recover.

@zill - please add new link, to the complete system BIOS from each model, and the 3 vBIOS you mentioned, I will check all this out for you. As of now, the google link you provided is a document about bank account issue.
unsigned vBIOS can possibly be gone around, you’ll have to ask about that one in the vBIOS/GOP thread here, we have some real pro’s here that could look at the BIOS for you and tell you how to remove or replace signature after edit I’m sure.
People edit NVIDIA vBIOS often, with many various tools, so I’m sure it’s probably possible.

BTW, my mention of Intel BMP was in regards to the onboard vBIOS within the BIOS, I didn’t realize you were having problem with NVIDIA BIOS.
But since these are muxelss systems anyway and onboard GFX and it’s vBIOS always loaded this may still apply and may be part of the problem with your current changes, and may also be part of the solution to fix as I originally mentioned, since this vBIOS may be the last one to enable/disable which outputs are used/enabled.

@nimaim - You’re welcome, and thanks again to you and @pcfr33k too! Do you think I made it easy enough for everyone to follow, the first part I mean? Do you see anything I need to add/improve/change?
Pass around the thread link to notebookreview and any other forums too if you want, thanks!

@geekasm - all you need to do is clear CMOS fully and it will remove the bad settings you applied and should reset BIOS to let you back in. (Sorry, wrote that out before I read you added password, this will remain even after clearing CMOS so will need entered until removed)
Sometimes this might take an hour or so, unless you can find a clear CMOS position on the board to short, if not leave all power removed, including both batteries, overnight while you sleep or all day while you’re out at work etc.
Glad you finally got back in! Don’t set BIOS password, who is using your system that knows how to enter the BIOS that shouldn’t? Kick their butt and tell them to stay out of the BIOS instead of a password!

sure @pcfr33k and LNB. Thanks for sharing suggestions. I ll definitely do the testing defensively. such that I can always recover system back.
All part of learning. Thanks again, for your help, knowledge and time.

I’m sure you’ll get it all figured out!


Done: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/…6#post-10866985 … I’m going to follow it myself with an FPT dump the next few days as time allows and see if you got all the steps in there. That’s the only way to truly verify. But from first glance, seems correct and easy to follow.

@nimaim - Thanks, and thanks! Yes, it would be great if you’d follow the guide like you have no clue and see if you arrive with mod BIOS easily and pain free. This is especially true the first part of the guide, not the advanced one, since that is what most users will use.
But you can also try following the advanced one too, but I didn’t go into great detail there because anyone doing that should be able to follow along with minimal help, otherwise they should really be using first part instead.

You can tell anyone asking, if there model is not covered to stop in on the thread and link to their stock BIOS or give model name and FPT dump and I will see if I can unlock for them (99% sure I can unlock all/any)
This is in regards to that guy asking GTX only or not, etc, none of that (Model, screen size etc) matters to me >> only BIOS

Dos The unlocked bios for the TF chassis will be be compatibe with the new Gen RTX versions?

The mobo number for the 17" is: GKXCX7X MB 1.2 do all the “X”'s mean that these are interchangeable between 15 and 17"

When I lose mini dp when using the different vbios for my 2070 MQ (from razer blade 15 90W, great boost in perf) I am wondering if the problem is from the system Bios rather than vbios…

I don’t know how to dump my current RTX 15" bios so someone can take a look at it… Would you kindly indicate me to the right tools so I can do this…?

Thank you so much, you guys are awesome!

@zill , please see LNB’s guide: OverPowered TONGFANG CyberPower Machrevo MACHENIKE - Unlocked BIOS Guide W/ Files. The steps to dump your current BIOS are in his instructions (steps 1-3).

@nimaim - thanks for mentioning to @zill about all gfx going through the dGPU before final output, I assumed this much and asked zill for his original main system BIOS first before looking into his problem.
If he’s crossflashing I assumed maybe the system BIOS he used did not have the Intel side GFX setup properly for his dp and would need modified possibly to (or maybe only)
That, or he needs to crossflash the matching system BIOS from the system that the vBIOS came from he’s using now (or at least swap the Intel vBIOS from each)

So yes @zill I’ve thought this from day one as well since answering your questions and am still waiting for your BIOS. You didn’t flash some other BIOS into your system?
If yes, link me to that BIOS download package (For both your original and the one you crossflashed), and for creating a dump, see my unlocking guide it’s all right there at the beginning on how to create a bios dump.
OverPowered TONGFANG CyberPower Machrevo MACHENIKE - Unlocked BIOS Guide W/ Files

hey everyone, I found a easy blind flash way, this only need you have a stock bios. Rename the stock bios to GK5CN.BIN, put it into your FAT32 usb disk, and press Ctrl + Home when boot. And it will flash the GK5CN.BIN.

Thanks @Fan - probably similar process for all the models, using their specific recovery name (likely similar/same name format for each system too)

Hi, I try to disable dgfx, and this is my setting:
Skip Scanning of External GFX Card [Enabled]
Primary Display [iGFX]
Select PCIE Card [Elk Creek 4]
Internal Graphics [Enabled]
and I disabled PEG 0:1:0(x16 GEN3)
But if computer sleep, the keyboard will lost.
I tried so many settings, but whatever I disable dGFX, the keyboard will lost in awake, and if I enable dGFX, the problem disappeard.
So, I want to know how to make the dGFX disabled.

@pcfr33k @nimaim ^^ Thanks! Looks like he made some progress, maybe not same you guys did, or did you already do that too? I told him maybe you guys knew about this, but didn’t ever test sleep, or your script could help maybe?