For two days I have been trying with no success. The right and left arrow does not work for me in both off state or hibernation.
The program from the supplier does not give any change neither. Maye you have any use for it.




I will give it a rest and think what to do next, Thanks for all your help, you're my hero.

In reading the links you send, I remember what happened with the chip replacement (thank you). I changed the bios chip 2x and I did not replace the motherboard.
The mobo was locked with a password and the SMC files from HP support did not solve that problem. They advised to change the board as their assistance stopped after this file sending.(no warranty)
I ordered a bios chip on Ebay and this one was preprogrammed with version F08 (old). I re-flashed the bios to F60 and something went wrong because I and up with a black screen.
After that I send the supplier the 68SCF F60 and I received the 2nd chip with the F60 without the system data. Than they send me the wndmifit file to correct that with only the 2 pictures as instructions.
The MPM was open, it is was on a 10 restart countdown. I executed the wndmifit and locked the MPM (option), because it will lock after 10 restarts anyway. Something went wrong there? I start looking on the net and found your thread. The rest you know. I did try a lot of "solutions", what I found on the net, but no luck. That's what had me confused, too much different info.

I doubt about the "branded" part HP is referring to. I put in the numbers with wndmifit and the seriall and UIDD look correct, unless there are hidden numbers/data.

Should I try the CPQTAG program?

Well, I'm tired as you are from this topic.
Thanks for all the help and patience, which was special since it outside your field of expertise. Highly appreciated.

How about this link? I see an MPM Unlocker, but I'm not accustomed to HP tools or manufacturing ways. I'm on Plutomaniac's side, this has to be sorted between you and HP. The fact that you replaced, updated, downgraded, changed board and what else, is not making this problem any easier.

Thank you for the link and the reply. I understand your argument, but I finished with HP already. In both cases, after the support was not successful, they want to replace the mobo and I not. So I have to look for another way to fix this problem.
I will check the link and see if I can find a solution. I'll will post the result.

I have tried most of the programs what concerns my problem, but regretfully no luck. No matter what I do, the system stays locked and so it must be a hardware problem. Which some of the programs instruction book it says that if this program does not work you have to exchange the motherboard. End of story.

@plutomaniac

Hi,
I have a eeprom programmer now and I understood that the complete bios of 8mb need to be flashed in order to get the ME part right.
You said you had one and wanted my file to compare. Did you do so already? If so can you post the right file.?
I would be grateful

Thx for your reply.

I'm waiting for cable with test clip to attache to the eeprom, so I don't have to desolder all the time. I did some programming with a spare chip and wanted to complete that.
So I will let you know when i have it, it can be any day now..Than I can also make the dump.

@plutomaniac

Received the adapter cable with testclip.
I read the full eeprom with it and attached the file.

Thx for your help.
Unfortunately something went wrong. I flashed your bin.file but I get black screen with the capslock and numlock blinking 5 times, fan full speed and nothing else.
I have to look into that,



Update:
Through the pressure on the testclip, the chip let go from the mobo and I have to fix that first before anything else.
system completely dead.

Update 2:
Thread can be closed. I did not get through to fix the mobo once more. Tried very hard, but my handicap plays up to much.
So now the problem with the ME is no longer an issue, I need to look for a new mobo or get writ of the HP.

Thanks a lot for all the help and patience.

Hi,
Still fighting to get the laptop working
I have a semi working laptop now. Starts up, you can get in the bios.
Only on VGA I get the picture as in the example. Own display and displayport give black screen.
I can't read the error message, is there anybody who is familiar with this?
The second picture shows the screen after windows 8.1 has started up completely. It shuts down again after 10 seconds.

Can these problems be caused by the bios ? Or is the gpu also defect ?