The previous IT admin, a paranoid guy named Carl, had left the company six months ago. Carl had one rule: “If it leaves the office, it gets a BIOS password.” The problem was, Carl had taken the password with him. No handover. No documentation. Just a Post-it note in a locked drawer that turned out to be empty.
He flashed the patched BIOS back:
sudo flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0,spispeed=512 -w bios_patched.bin Verification passed. hp zbook 15 g5 bios password reset