Samsung Galaxy A40 bricked - Samsung Galaxy A40 Questions & Answers

Hey I wish you a nice evening!
My Samsung Galaxy A40 does not boot, it is stuck on the Samsung Galaxy A40 Secured by Knox powered by Android Screen.
After some time it comes to the android recovery, but unfortunately it is OEM locked and I think USB debugging is disabled.
I tried the following things anyway:
wipe cache and factory reset
adb sideload (only this mode is available) with the original firmware results in "Error 21 Signature verification failed"
And from download mode I tried:
flash the original software (android 9, 10, 11) till I am at bios version 4 and can't get back --> result: only erasing data is shown, I did not get any further
flash twrp --> forbidden by OEM lock
I don't know any further, my next step would be to replace the motherboard, but if you have any idea that could solve the problem, please add a comment.
And as time passed I also tried Samsung SmartSwitch to fix the software, but it failed too.
In my opinion it is maybe a hardware fault..
Thank you very much
In the attachment you can find some images of my failed tries

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