Recovery of VOYO V1 VMac Mini PC

[Learnincurve]

Hi,

  I just bought one of these:

http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_606551.html

based on Apollo Lake 3450 and with AMI /APTIO EFI ("BIOS").

  Within a day I had managed to brick it by trying to flash a "BIOS" upgrade from the Voyo support site:


http://en.myvoyo.com/xiazai/MINI%20PC/VM...I_PC/down/

file is at:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fso1ebq6kfsfbyj/AM01.rar?dl=0


I have tried the regular AMI recovery workflow, renaming bin file to AMIBOOT.ROM on a USB stick and:

1. Plugging in the USB, leaving the system to find the file and waiting
2. Plugging in the USB, pressing HOME to force the system to find the file and waiting
3.  Plugging in the USB, pressing CTRL+HOME to force the system to find the file and waiting.

  None of these have worked for me. 

when I try to recover:

If I use a USB pen with builtin LED, I notice that the LED starts to flash quickly as soon as it is plugged into the powered USB 3 socket, but the flashing doesn't change at all when I power on the system using the power switch.  There is no onboard beeper and no other LED's apart from the system LED which illuminates as soon as I press the power button. The "system" (if it can be called that in its current state) can also be turned off again by pressing and holding the power button. Apart from this LED, there is no other indication that anything is going on in the system. The UEFI interface does not come up when I press ESC (the normal key). No boot menu when I press F7. No other screen activity.

I tried using the AMI MOD Tool v. 1.45 to find the magic recovery file name, but when I run it against the bin file from the support site, it is not recognised as an AMI bios.

It would be really fantastic if someone could analyse the bin file from the URL above and see if there is a way to find the magic file name and key combination to load it.

  best regards

Marius