@Lost_N_BIOS
I was able to recover my bios by flashing it through linux and doing a clear cmos. My system is up and and running again. I used the firmware sent by the motherboard manufacturer and followed the instructions of this thread. Everything is flowing. I will answer your questions.

Your image is about ME FW / BIOS update, were you on old BIOS with ME FW V7, so you had to use EXE to update your BIOS?
Yes. My ME FW was old, could it be the cause I'm without audio? I don't know why but my audio chipset didn't work under windows 10 but on windows 7 it worked flawlessly, now it doesn't work on both, not even on linux. It stop working completely. What could be the cause?

so does current BIOS mean bricked BIOS that you dumped with programmer?
Correct. It was the current, now the current changed to the one the manufacturer mailed me. I uploaded it and linked it a two posts ago.

What BIOS do you want to be on?? I assume some older one, but which one (Just back to original?), and WHY would you want to do that?
I wanted to do that to know if my audio chipset would start working again. However I measured the risks, doesn't worth trying to make it work if I don't know what I'm doing. If you want to guide and help me, that would be nice!

do you remember or know, what your ME FW version was before all this? Was your old BIOS non-UEFI Type, and the new one was UEFI (graphical type BIOS vs old plain text type BIOS)?
My ME firmware version was 7. It was UEFI since the begin, they just updated it because of the audio. You can see this is a problem with drivers/bios because they pushed an update strictly to fix this issue

@c00lkid - Good you were able to get back up and running again! I could have helped you to do that with the latest BIOS they sent you, but I assumed you were mainly interested in going back, I also assumed you knew you could put that BIOS on with programmer too but didn't want to.
Yes, you could have corrupted ME FW, but it shouldn't be that way if you were able to do a proper write of that BIOS (?) I'm not sure about doing from Linux, but with flash programmer it should have went on properly.
Check ME FW version in the BIOS system info area, or with HWINFO64 and see if you see 0.0.0.0 or N/A as the version, if so it's messed up. To check that with HWINFO64 - on the large window on left side, expand motherboard and find ME area, inside that get the ME Firmware version

Also on Audio issue, make sure "Azalia" in enabled in the BIOS, this is the audio chip. I'm not sure what all you can see in BIOS, but it's at Chipset >> PCH config if you can see that area

Good to know your ME FW was V7, I thought this may be the case, but wasn't sure, since ME7 to ME8 and "Win8" update warnings/processes like the thing linked to EXE BIOS update at top of your BIOS section usually happened with P67/Z68 boards back then, but I guess a few Z77 may have been around right then too.
So, since it was UEFI type BIOS all along, what is your reason to want to go back and caused you to have to deal with all this? Hopefully once we fix your ME FW it will be OK (Audio I mean).
Please be sure to remove your ME jumper, and then load optimal defaults in the BIOS after that, then check the ME FW version stuff mentioned above.

Well, it did work without any modification to the bios file, that is a good thing. There is even some options I never saw before, that makes me happy. I'm thinking in buying a new audio chipset and try to swap it. What you think about this? Too much insane without testing anything? Ah, another thing, my MAC address was preserved even after flashing the bios file so I guess my motherboard is pretty intact and has solid information. I would like to try some tricks if it's possible(to enable the audio). Another thing I would like to mention is, I have 4x4GB sticks of RAM DDR3 1600MHz. The motherboard doesn't give any output on the screen if the 4 slots are populated but they work interchangeably or if I limit it to 8GB(2x4GB). Would be possible to unlock this? I guess it's due the low CAS they don't work ok together. Maybe it's the motherboard, who knows, I would like to hear your opinion @Lost_N_BIOS
I have solid ME version on the bios screen, it's the 8 version.

My audio issue, the azalia codec is marked to enabled, yes. I verified that multiple times.

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #452

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what is your reason to want to go back and caused you to have to deal with all this?

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@nicovon - Sorry for delay!! Here is fixed BIOS, put on with programmer - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...412214747118451

@c00lkid - Swap audio chipset very difficult, unless you have hot air re-work station. Good to hear your MAC remained, it must be stored in LAN FW
If Azalia enabled in BIOS then audio is enabled, but fried, nothing you can do except replace that chip or pickup a cheap audio card, plenty out there with same realtek chip on it I'm sure, usually those are cheap $5-10
Do you have any 1GB or 2GB sticks? If yes, try one of those in all four slots, if it only works in 2 of the 4 or 4 of the four you may have damaged CPU socket pins.
If you don't have any smaller sticks, does 2x4GB work in either set of slots? If yes, slots OK and CPU socket pins OK (See my last thought below, this applies here)
I don't even know what motherboard you have since this thread is not specific to your system and I'm not digging back through here, but 4x4GB is often hard on many older chipsets and CPU's, so you may just need to find correct voltages and or speed/timings for it to work with all 4x4GB
Usually for that, you need to increase CPU Vtt voltage, but again I don't know what board, chipset or CPU we are talking about here so all this "in general"

@Lost_N_BIOS
I can use 2x4GB normally in the four slots. My motherboard supports up to 32GB of RAM at 2667 clock speed. It's probably the chip that is fried, I mean, there is a noise in the front panel jack and it shows that both mic in and sound out of front panel are connected when they are not.
I will try to mess around with the timings to see if it works(the ram)

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #454

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@nicovon - Sorry for delay!! Here is fixed BIOS, put on with programmer - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...412214747118451

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@c00lkid - good, so any slot you put 2x4GB in 1+3 or 2+4 slot, and both show up in BIOS, and task manager shows 16GB total memory available? Be sure to check that in task manager.
If that is the case, then your CPU just needs some adjustments to run all that memory. This is very common with larger amounts of memory, it's not so much about the timings, unless you are trying to run super tight timings, well maybe tRFC matters if that's being set too tight by auto, but it's more about CPU Vtt voltage usually
What motherboard do you have, and I can check your BIOS to tell you this exact voltage setting name.

@nicovon - sounds like you maybe had some bad settings locked in CMOS or something? Clear CMOS and then load optimal defaults and reboot back to BIOS, then make any adjustments you need, that should sort it all out.
Once you do that, also check BIOS Main page and see if you see ME FW shown (it may not be shown in the BIOS), if you don't see there check with HWINFO64 and on the large window on left side, expand motherboard and find ME area, inside that get the ME Firmware version.
You are looking to see an actual version shown, if you see N/A or 0.0.0.0 or no ME FW section in HWINFO64, then you may need to reset ME FW with FPT. I'll show you how if this is case.

When you program, do you Erase, blank check, then write/verify? If not, you should always do that to be sure nothing is left behind on chip before you write.

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@nicovon - sounds like you maybe had some bad settings locked in CMOS or something? Clear CMOS and then load optimal defaults and reboot back to BIOS, then make any adjustments you need, that should sort it all out.Once you do that, also check BIOS Main page and see if you see ME FW shown (it may not be shown in the BIOS), if you don't see there check with HWINFO64 and on the large window on left side, expand motherboard and find ME area, inside that get the ME Firmware version. You are looking to see an actual version shown, if you see N/A or 0.0.0.0 or no ME FW section in HWINFO64, then you may need to reset ME FW with FPT. I'll show you how if this is case.When you program, do you Erase, blank check, then write/verify? If not, you should always do that to be sure nothing is left behind on chip before you write.

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Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #457

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Once you do that, also check BIOS Main page and see if you see ME FW shown (it may not be shown in the BIOS), if you don't see there check with HWINFO64 and on the large window on left side, expand motherboard and find ME area, inside that get the ME Firmware version.

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a doubt with this clip can I erase the bios completely to replace it with a modified bios compatible with a device like this?

my goal is to leave the dedicated gpu as primary and / or disable hypermemory

Hi all, I have IC with these information :
+Manufacturer : Cypress Semiconductor
+Series : S25FL128S
+Chip ID : S25FL128SAGBHIA03

Does CH341A or AS programmer support with this chip? If not, is there any another one can?

Thanks so much.

@nicovon BIOS and CMOS not same things, And "Clear CMOS" does not always clear everything it should on some boards. Additionally you didn't mention a blank check in your programming process, so you can't be 100% sure the erase completely erased (That's why I asked)
You also still did not give me any info about ME FW as I mentioned. What you described, which is not happening now, is normal sometimes, system needs to retrain memory, reset ME FW state, or do other things, so sometimes a first bootup can take a reboot or three before it's settled back in.
After that you should load optimized/optimal defaults, save and exit, reboot back to BIOS and then make all other changes you want to make in the BIOS.

The image you linked looks like a bad graphics card, or bad cable etc. This is a video issue, if you are using onboard graphics then you may need to replace CPU soon, or pickup a PCI/PCIE graphics card/
If you are using a PCI/PCIE graphics card now, then you may need to replace it soon, especially if you keep seeing distorted graphics output like that.

To your question #2 - not generally, BIOS is not in use while you are in windows, unless you invoke it via DMI apps or BIOS update apps etc.
#3 - stop messing around, you can brick your BIOS forcing power down like that, probably how this initially happened eh?
Use shutdown button in windows, or press and hold the power button for 5 seconds or so while system is stable (in BIOS), or if frozen in windows.
Do not do that while it's starting up or shutting down etc, this is not necessary for any reason and can mess things up.

On your HWINFO report, no, I didn't check that and don't need to, you look in the app itself on the left side as mentioned, show me image if you are not sure.
You should see something similar to this if ME FW healthy


@sagael - you can only use BIOS for that system, flash it normally, programmer is not required unless you bricked the system.
In OEM notebook like that, you cannot enable/disable any graphics device and leave the other as main, you can only have it as originally configured (Intel being main output to all display out connections)
Hypermemory or shared memory may be edited/changed with a BIOS edit. Dump the BIOS and send me a copy and I will check and change it for you.

@huyho - Yes, should be OK, use Spansion S25FL128 and version 1.30 or 1.34 - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...695330485827902
If that fails you can use ASProgrammer 1.41 it has the full exact ID Spansion S25FL128S - https://github.com/nofeletru/UsbAsp-flash/releases/

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@sagael - you can only use BIOS for that system, flash it normally, programmer is not required unless you bricked the system.
In OEM notebook like that, you cannot enable/disable any graphics device and leave the other as main, you can only have it as originally configured (Intel being main output to all display out connections)
Hypermemory or shared memory may be edited/changed with a BIOS edit. Dump the BIOS and send me a copy and I will check and change it for you.

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@sagael - No, to dump generally for the inspection I mentioned, you can usually use AFU or whatever flash tool comes with stock BIOS, or yes, possibly Universal BIOS backup toolkit
File extension does not matter to me, upload the file in a zip and I will check it out about hypermemory. Link me to stock BIOS download page too, so I can see your stock flash tool/method.
In the end, if you want to reflash mod BIOS, yes, you may need CH341A + SOIC8 clip, dump BIOS, send to me so I can edit, then you program back

Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #463

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@sagael - No, to dump generally for the inspection I mentioned, you can usually use AFU or whatever flash tool comes with stock BIOS, or yes, possibly Universal BIOS backup toolkit
File extension does not matter to me, upload the file in a zip and I will check it out about hypermemory. Link me to stock BIOS download page too, so I can see your stock flash tool/method.
In the end, if you want to reflash mod BIOS, yes, you may need CH341A + SOIC8 clip, dump BIOS, send to me so I can edit, then you program back

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Zitat von Lost_N_BIOS im Beitrag #461

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@huyho - Yes, should be OK, use Spansion S25FL128 and version 1.30 or 1.34 - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fil...695330485827902
If that fails you can use ASProgrammer 1.41 it has the full exact ID Spansion S25FL128S - https://github.com/nofeletru/UsbAsp-flash/releases/

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