Think I understood it was the keyboard pcb connector with the mobo connector that was damaged earlier so now keyboard is dead ...
The ZiF connector I forced yesterday ...
That it not bios related at all ...

Don’t guess just flash it from post #279

I don’t guess iam doing troubleshooting is use my brain I will not reflash if it is simply the keyboard which is dead ... Mate come on :)
I use my brain I broke the connector yesterday ... ok 👌🏻
now not working ...
Will try your dump tomorrow iam done with this for today good evening buddy :)

Ok post me results after you finish your brainstorming and finally try to flash))
I have plenty of time

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I saw guys using 1,8 volt adapter for flashing and not burning 🥵 the chip no risk for me here ?

transfert photo par mail

Could be this chip look the sticker ...
Can’t restart the laptop mobo seems dead I don’t know I got 3,3 5 and 12V with my multimeter voltages are good but laptop don’t start

Ok flashing with lost bios I got error size doesn’t match 11mb vs 16mb on the chip
Flashing with Covini108.fd file from acer error size doesn’t match 18mb vs 16 mb on the chip iam stucked

https://imgshare.io/image/G4qQl

Ok thanks 🙏 your file you supplied is the right size sorry was abroad for work iam on it thank hyppo and lost as always brainstorming is done ✅ doing what you said keep in touch

No luck thanks anyway



Will hash the two bin files to verify myself the integrity...

md5 sum differs

After moving the crocodile 🐊 clip new try seems good to go repasting and reassembly

You guys are amazing 😉 hyppo is my God :) you were right I was wrong keyboard connector makes short the mobo so I have put isolation tape on it and reflash with your bios how do you manage to make it 16mb long the one provided by lost is 11mb and acer is 18mb ...



Thank you so much ! I will flash to mine now I have regain control over this laptop oh btw I have a ph315-52 now :) I will reflash so I don’t have you GUID and mac Adress :(

Need to change bios anyway windows has lost its activation key because of the bios ...
Will reflash with lost modded bios to see if it fixes the problem ...

Btw here for people having bricked pc and no usb ch341a miniprogrammer here a solution to update blindly in 1.08



Good luck 😉 and Godspeed mates ...

ok sum up :

hyppo your dump save my life but now iam stuck with a buggy ME no windows activation cuz of wrong GUID ...
when i try to flash via the FWPT.exe i get an error like Mikolaj aka ME unknow state bla bla bla
i manage via rescue key to flash to 1.08 stock but still 315-52 firwmware show off ...
now it says

Error 167: Protected Range Registers are currently set by BIOS, preventing flash access.
Please contact the target system BIOS vendor for an option to disable
Protected Range Registers.

FPT Operation Failed.

retrying grub procedure to bypass PRR ...

ok i love schizophrenia cuz i can talk with myself ...

so i "Houved" this little bastard with vars files done by Lost ...

rebooted it, launch FWT -d / FWT-f biosreg then made a reflash with Biosmodreg.bin and guess what windows is activated i got back all my region, FW ME GUID and all my UUIDs back ...



hack completed !

iam gone wish it could help people in the shit like i was in couple of years ...

Hey @saltinbank good to see you recovered it)
So you managed to flash your dump on top with your own guid and macs?