Hey everyone, To preface things, I have an HP Pavilion Laptop, model HP Pavilion - 15-cw100. I updated my BIOS to the...

Using something called a CH341a Programmer, I was able to successfully repair the laptop. This involved locating the BIOS Chip, figuring out what model it is, backing up the original BIOS Firmware (a .bin file), and finally, flashing the new BIOS Firmware with the appropriate serial information added. Thankfully, HP Makes it easy to get the BIOS Firmware Image -- you just run the HP BIOS Updater tool and select the option that says "Copy BIOS Image to any file location (Advanced Users)". Here's a great resource to help find out what your Board ID is so you can flash the appropriate BIOS Image: https://github.com/ISpillMyDrink/UEFI-Repair-Guide/wiki/HP-System-BIOS-Update-Utility One thing to note is that adding the serial information is a difficult task once the chip is flashed -- hence you should backup the original BIOS Firmware so you can extract the serial information and add it to the new BIOS Image before flashing it to the BIOS Chip. To add the serial information to the new .bin file, you can either...