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Reflashed Surface Pro 4 BIOS to remove UEFI password. Now it boots SLOW
I have a Surface Pro 4 that was UEFI locked.
It worked normally, but you just couldn't get into BIOS without a password.
I stole the BIOS from another identical board and flashed it. I didn't edit the BIOS at all.
Now when I turn it on it takes 30 seconds to get Surface logo (before I flashed it took 1 second)
Then it takes about 15 seconds before you get the Windows 10 spinning dots. (normally it's almost immediate)
Once it's booted into Windows 10 it runs normally. I have also tried a fresh install of Win 10 since the BIOS flash.
I am not very experienced with BIOS flashing. Was there something I needed to edit in the donor BIOS to make this work correctly? Clear ME?
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Re: Surface Pro 4 - UEFI password removal please?
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Re: Surface Pro 4 - UEFI password removal please?
Originally posted by peste View Posttry...
I have a clean ME dump for this BIOS. Would that help?
I can't use the clean ME BIOS directly though, because it makes the touch screen stop working. There must be something in the original BIOS that allows touch to function... I somehow need to combine them I think.
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Re: Surface Pro 4 - UEFI password removal please?
Originally posted by RethoricalCheese View PostNah, don't mess with ME and such.
Try this.
Touch works, starts up fast, and no more BIOS password.
Can you tell me how you did it?
EDIT: I ran it though hex compare. The only difference between the two files are a single character at offset 00606620. Is that all it takes?Last edited by mattpd; 02-21-2020, 12:42 PM.
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Re: Surface Pro 4 - UEFI password removal please?
Originally posted by RethoricalCheese View PostI think the clue was "AWord"Last edited by Vesko356; 02-21-2020, 06:48 PM.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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