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Could you elaborate on this? What device did you test on, what was the test procedure, and what was the outcome?
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Sure! The testing was conducted on a specific industrial x86 board (DPX-W250 Rev. A1). I won't go into details about the exact equipment it came from, but it provided a perfect bare-metal environment for this research))))
The testing procedure was a classic physical Cold Boot Attack:
Froze the RAM modules while the target system was fully operational.
Performed a hard power-off.
Quickly swapped the original system drive with my own prepared drive containing the BareMetal-RAM-Dumper.
Powered the system back on and booted directly into the custom bootloader via Legacy BIOS.
The result: Absolutely successful. The dumper immediately took control, switched to Unreal Mode, and successfully dumped the raw physical memory directly to the disk without any OS interference or data trampling.
P.S. I'm using AI to translate my messages because I don't speak English. Hope everything is clear!
Not the author, but this is an extremely simple tool that is not written with any device-specific code... it should work on most any x86-based PC device (plain BIOS or a UEFI system with CSM support enabled).