tried the EEPROM shorting method, but I either cannot pull it off with two hands (I already need two to just short the EEPROM, even if it’s kind of easy to reach), or don’t know when to exactly short the EEPROM to bypass the screen.

I bought a replacement board for mine, but it’s BIOS locked, and I need to defeat it to disable secure boot to make it usable (won’t even boot with PXE without erroring out).