[theandrewbailey]

I work in the refurb division of an e-waste recycling company. HP laptops constitute about 90% of the BIOS passworded/locked systems we get. We can't do anything with a laptop that we can't adjust the boot order or disable secure boot on, and the value of completely disassembling, de-soldering, and flashing the BIOS chip of an EliteBook that could go for $200 or less is dubious. (We've tried everything short of that.) Maybe I can try to build a lot from them and sell to a large repair shop.

[quesera]

Can you flash the PROM with just a clip on connector? (thereby avoiding desolder and most disassembly)

I've done this successfully on HP Chromeboxes, but have not tried their other devices.

[theandrewbailey]

On models that would be worth reselling, it must be de-soldered.