08-02-2019, 04:43 PM
(08-02-2019, 04:33 PM)devious20000 Wrote: Good evening, trying to figure out how to unlock my bios, I picked up a used computer, which was not locked as I thought, but when I went to upgrade the HDD with M.2 hard drive it explained that I needed to change something on UEFI to legacy, which I have seen before on a Bios option, but when I tried to enter the Bios it asked for a password, which I don't know since I wasn't the one that set it, I tried to jump start it but doesn't work for me, and then stumbled upon this thread, also I tried to reflash the Bios but since its the same version it would not let me, can someone more experienced explain to me, if I purchase an Spi-Programmer on Ebay can I use that to reflash and unlock my Bios, in the mean time I'm just going to see if can clone my HDD to the M.2 drive but would love to do a clean install, thanks for any help.Hi
in any case you need a SPI-programmer+SOIC8 clip