Everyone is buying the wrong CH341A programmer, I have learned from my mistake. Don't buy the Black one or Green one.
Buy this one in the photo. Most stable and all your common problems (reading but not writing/erasing, software hanging, disconnects after attaching chip, test cable connected but chip not found/ device disconnected) will be gone.

Otherwise you'll have to solder capacitor from GND to VCC if you have those symptoms in your black or green miniprogrammer....

Hi,

as noobie to this please excuse my lack of experience.

I am trying to remove a BIOS password from this machine:
[B]HP ProDesk 400 G6 Mini [/B]

but so far I still have no success.
I bought [B]CH341 programmer[/B] and decided to give it a try.

The programmer came with [B]8 pin [/B]cables and connectors or whatever everything else is called so I had to buy a new [B]16 pin cable[/B] because the chip which I think is the BIOS is with [B]16 pins[/B]..

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