

Hex editor of your choice - Here’s a good free one HxD, I use paid version of Hex Editor Neo, I’m unsure how good the free one isĮFI Shell boot64.efi file - attached below, rename to Shell.efi for this specific Asus board, BIOS tells you in hover/hint on “Launch EFI Shell” what file name it expects. UEFITool 0.25.0 - Download in first spoiler

Tools used, will be linked here or attached below I will show how to get the variable ID here also initially, in case this changes in the future for this model, and so that others in the future that find this will also be able to check and find the locks on whatever board BIOS they look into fixing. This is due to “BIOS Lock” bit set in the BIOS itself, and this method can be applied to other BIOS HSFS register type locks such as SMI/SMM Lock (error 280), GPIO Lock, BIOS Interface Lock Goal of this guide is specifically to change "Setup Variable" from BIOS setup module - (VarOffset/VarName): 0x8A6, VarStore: 0x1 (Change to 0x0) How to fix this specific Intel FPT Error 368 Write Protection BIOS region issue with Modified Asus BIOS, and other related locks
