So, when you run this FPTw.exe -d bios.bin is bios.bin created too? If yes, upload that and fd.bin Put both in a zip file then you can upload here.
Yes, pinmod is tough sometimes, you do not have to touch the pins, you can touch the traces on the board where you can see sliver on sides (pins are actually dots underneath the chip). You can use needles, with wire soldered between them

The command:
FPTw.exe -d bios.bin
Simply gives me a notepad file in the folder saying this: Error 26: The host CPU does not have read access to the target flash area. To enable read access for this operation you must modify the descriptor settings to give host access to this region.

It is when I do:
FPTw.exe -desc -d fd.bin
That I get a fd.bin file in the folder.

I compressed the fd.bin file for you using winrar, hopefully this works.

Yes, I assume that will give error, you can't dump the entire BIOS due to FD is locked. Sorry, I only suggested that as an attempt, since it seemed you thought maybe FD was unlocked.
I already know it's locked, but I can check your FD to verify. Here is what's locked and what's not


You can pinmod or wait on programmer

I purchased the programmer but because many sellers lie about location and it may come from China, it may take a week or two to get here.

Maybe we could try pinmod and see if I can get it to work? I cut a piece of paperclip and held it with pliers. Do you think that it is possible to bridge it with this or do I need something thinner? Also, how does process go. Do I unplug power and turn off PSU and bridge them? Or keep power on but computer off? Or do the bridge while computer boots? Thanks.

Added some pictures for you to see if it is adequate or something smaller is needed.

https://imgur.com/a/WYeCat5

@sosaa - Yes, hopefully it arrives in a few weeks for you Yes, you may be able to use tiny paper clip, you only need to touch the silver traces on the board at the points. You can also solder wire to two needles if you solder.
Shut off computer, short the pins and start the board, so yes it's while booting the short is applied. Be sure you have correct pins. What you are using in your images wont work, too fat/thick and too much plastic on the ends to even have the metal exposed to touch to the traces on the board.
That general idea is good, but you need to expose the ends and grind to find point, or use much smaller clip

Hello again. I really want to try this pinmod out before the programmer arrives here I got a pin and bent that and think that it may be skinny enough to hit the the 2 spots on the mobo. I may even file down the fatter side a little bit to get it thinner if need be. I included some pictures below, what do you think?

Also, to adequately reach that spot, I have to remove my video card because it is right behind it. That is no problem correct?

https://i.imgur.com/34U5ajy.jpg

Edit 2/21/19 - I tried for close to 2 hours to do the pinmod and it did not work. Sometimes when shorting the pins the PC would not even bother booting up until I let off one of the pins. Pins 4 and 5 also seem a bit 'flattened' from all the time i spent there and my audio now does not work either. I will just wait for the programmer

Hello again. I got around to doing 'pinmod' but I'm not sure if it worked correctly. Sometimes PC would not boot up until I let off one of the pins. It never did a loading bar for me. My audio also now does not seem to work anymore. Realtek HD audio is missing from my device manager and taskbar. Maybe I flattened a pin and audio does not work now because of that?

I ended up doing command:
fwupdlcl -f me.bin
which had me stuck at 94% before, but this time it fully completed.

I will continue to wait for programmer, and is there anyway to get the audio back or must I buy a soundcard?

@sosaa - You don't need/can't touch any actual pins, only the traces at their location on the board itself, the pins are actually underneath the chip (it's QFP package, like BGA) and you can't touch them anyway.
Yes, you can remove your video card, but you need to have onboard graphic setup and running before doing the pinmod, so you'll have screen access after that.

Your needle/pin in image looks really fat, you should use much thinner needle, so you don't short other pins during the process. When PC wont boot, that is due to short or incorrect pins touched etc. Sounds like you shorted it out or were touching incorrect pin traces

You already flashed ME via FPT, that is why FW Update tool completes correctly now, this should happen no matter what. To find out if your pinmod worked (only is there until reboot, so if you've rebooted then you need to do again)
Run this command, if it completes successfully and complete BIOS image is there with all regions in UEFITool (FD, ME, BIOS) then it's pinmodded until next reboot >> FPTw.exe -d bios.bin

Once you do have pinmod, this will unlock your FD so you can reboot and it will still be unlocked, this also will test/confirm if pinmod success or not, if not it will not let you do this at all
Use this file and run command below - http://www.filedropper.com/fd-unlocked
FPTw.exe -desc -f fd.bin

As for audio, sounds like you probably shorted out the chip, or fried something else relating to it by touching wrong pins (tiny resistor probably if not chip itself)

Hello again Lost_N_Bios. I haven't posted in a while but my Programmer came in a couple of weeks ago and I had brushed it aside. I am ready to work with it in order to unlock the BIOS but am not sure how. Any resources in particular?

https://i.imgur.com/E7yJxlp.jpg

@sosaa @Lost_N_BIOS
It occured in ASUS p67/z68/z77 too.
The reason of the problem I think is ME module missing!!!
I uesd AFU and fpt to flash the bios but it still kept stucking multipliers.
I solved it by SPI programmer~~~

How did you solve it with the SPI programmer? Is there a guide somewhere which may instruct me how to use this?

ME Module is missing sometimes when you try to dump entire BIOS with AFU or FPT, if your ME region is locked maybe, but you can dump it via FPTw.exe -me -d me.bin
But yes, if ME FW is corrupted (ME FW Version shows N/A or 0.0.0.0 in BIOS main page or HWINFO, motherboard/ME section) then yes easiest way to fix is via programmer, but there is other ways (Mainly unlocking FD and rewrite the ME with FPT)

@sosaa - here is guide on how to use flash programmers - https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-G...341A-programmer << Same as one directly below, but with all images expanded/visible at once
[GUIDE] Flash BIOS with CH341A programmer

To best do this, you should dump your BIOS with programmer, then have someone confirm it's OK/actual BIOS before you write anything back. Then take that BIOS dump, use this clean ME guide, to clean, update and transfer in your board settings into a new ME FW
[Guide] Clean Dumped Intel Engine (CS)ME/(CS)TXE Regions with Data Initialization

Sorry I missed your earlier reply, I've been busy, and behind a lot recently! Where are you at here, I mean, is your multi still broken? If yes, send me your programmer dump and I will fix the ME for you, then we can work on unlocked BIOS if you want

Hello again Lost_N_BIOS.

Sorry for the time away but I am back now and want to fix this up. I followed your directions and obtained a dump of the BIOS chip. Hopefully I did this correctly and you can see what is wrong. Also, I manually removed the BIOS Chip rather than using the test clip as trying to clip onto the BIOS chip when it was still inserted into the motherboard was difficult and it kept coming off.

I have uploaded the file here as I cannot upload files greater than 6MB to this forum. The file is 8.00MB

https://gofile.io/?c=hfXEsm

@Lost_N_BIOS

I hope that you are still available for help or anyone else!

@sosaa - Sorry for the delay! Checking your dumped BIOS, I see ME FW is updated as expected now, so your ME FW is working correctly now, or not? Please check BIOS main page or with HWINFO64, do you see ME FW version now, or still 0.0.0.0 or N/A?
From the ME System tools folder, go to MEInfo folder, and run this and show me the output >> MEInfoWin.exe -verbose

Also, on the file upload to another site, that is fine with me, but next time, anytime, you are sharing a file online, please put in a zip or rar or 7zip, everyone thanks you

So, just wanted to check if your multiplier and ME FW issue was fixed yet or not, before we did anything about the BIOS unlocking.
For BIOS unlock, please zip for me images of all your BIOS pages, so I can see all you can see in each section and submenu, scroll up and down if needed.
You can probably use F12 to screenshot to USB, if not and you have to use a camera, then please set your camera to use small image size before you take images.
And, if you do end up having to use a camera, and can't make small images (a few 100KB or less per image), then please zip all into a 7zip archive with max compression, thanks.