HowTo get rid of ME Recovery notfication on ASRock MB?

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#1 | HowTo get rid of ME Recovery notfication on ASRock MB? datum

Yesterday 11:52 am (Last edited: Yesterday 1:17 pm)

Hi all,

I have a ASRock Rack E3C236D2I motherboard I purchased for dirt cheap a couple years ago. It works fine, save for one annoying error during the boot process:

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Warning! Intel SPS FW is working in Recovery mode!
Please change ME_RECOVERY jump to normal mode
Press F1 to Continue

This message appears on every boot, even to go into the BIOS. Also occurs even if the ME_RECOVERY jumper in is the normal position.

More info on board:
BIOS Version - P.260
BMC Version - 7.12
Intel SPS Version - 4.1.4.54

With info gathered from reading this forum, I have compiled the following so that experienced members get as much information as possible.

I used CSME Tools v11 r41 to gather the following info for your perusal:

MEInfo

Error 86: Communication error between application and Intel(R) ME module (FWU client)

Error 81: Internal error (Could not determine FW features information)

MEManuf

Error 86: Communication error between application and Intel(R) ME module (FWU client)

Error 125: Internal error (Could not determine FW features information)

Error 117: MEManuf Operation Failed

MEAnalyzer 1.93

+------------------------------------------+
¦ ME Analyzer v1.93.0 r170 ¦
+------------------------------------------+

+----------------------------------------+
¦ SPI.BIN (1/1) ¦
¦----------------------------------------¦
¦ Family ¦ CSE SPS ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Version ¦ 04.01.04.054 ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Release ¦ Production ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Type ¦ Region ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ SKU ¦ 2 ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Chipset ¦ SPT-H B ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Security Version Number ¦ 3 ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Version Control Number ¦ 0 ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Production Version ¦ No ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ OEM RSA Signature ¦ No ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ OEM Unlock Token ¦ No ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Date ¦ 2017-09-25 ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ File System State ¦ Configured ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Size ¦ 0x2F9000 ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Flash Image Tool ¦ 04.01.04.054 ¦
¦-------------------------+--------------¦
¦ Chipset Support ¦ SPT-H ¦
+----------------------------------------+

Press enter to exit

running FPT with -I parameter

C:\Intel ME Tools\CSME System Tools v11 r41\Flash Programming Tool\WIN64>fptw64 -I

Intel (R) Flash Programming Tool. Version: 11.8.86.3877
Copyright (c) 2007 - 2020, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

Reading HSFSTS register... Flash Descriptor: Valid

--- Flash Devices Found ---
MX25L12875F ID:0xC22018 Size: 16384KB (131072Kb)

--- Flash Image Information --
Signature: VALID
Number of Flash Components: 1
Component 1 - 16384KB (131072Kb)
Regions:
DESC - Base: 0x00000000, Limit: 0x00000FFF
BIOS - Base: 0x00800000, Limit: 0x00FFFFFF
CSME - Base: 0x00003000, Limit: 0x007FFFFF
GbE - Base: 0x00001000, Limit: 0x00002FFF
PDR - Not present
EC - Not present
Master Region Access:
CPU/BIOS - ID: 0x00, Read: 0x03B, Write: 0x03A
ME - ID: 0x00, Read: 0x02D, Write: 0x00C
GbE - ID: 0x00, Read: 0x009, Write: 0x008
EC - ID: 0x00, Read: 0x120, Write: 0x120

Total Accessible SPI Memory: 16384KB, Total Installed SPI Memory: 16384KB

FPT Operation Successful.

I do have BIOS and ME only dumps
I did look at trying to clean the ME region until I realized that the file system state is set to "configured" instead of "initialized".
I have Server 2019 installed for test purposes and it has blue screened regularly with the even viewer stating that

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Intel(R) Management Engine Interface driver has failed to perform handshake with the Firmware (FWSTS0: 0x000F0382, FWSTS1: 0x388A0006)

Then it seem to try to reset, then disable the ME interface, causing the blue screen

This is all I can think of at 5am where I live (Trinidad and Tobago).
Thanks for reading. Let's hope this can be resolved, else I'll just toss this board out and get a SuperMicro one.

Edit by Fernando: Thread title customized

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#2 | RE: HowTo get rid of ME Recovery notfication on ASRock MB? datum

3 minutes ago

That smells hardware, if there's a jumper and the error message comes independant of its position it might be some shortenend pin...

Otherwise: Tools for SPS are different, FPT from same generation CSME tools sometimes works, but FIT is completely different- and ME- tools are not to find for SPS. In addition the cleaning process might be similar, but not completely equal.

Please keep the relevant informaion within the forum/ thread. I don't answer PMs

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