Hello,
I have read most of the posts of this thread and I must say, thanks people for a lot of good work, amazing.
However, I'm very confused now, maybe I read and tried to much. (for days now) And still I can't find a solution for my HP Elitebook 8560p.
Therefor I'm asking for help.
The bios chip has been replaced with a new one and it works, but at startup, error massage comes up for a brief moment "ME is in recovery state"
Whatever I do, I can't solve it. I tried to reflash and recover the bios in various ways, no luck.
Tried to update the ME FW, but I get mainly error 8193: Intel (R) ME interface: cannot locate ME device driver.
So if I try MEinfo I get error 1002: Failed to retrieve ME FW version,also Error 9458: Communication error between app and ME FW and error 9459: Internal error (could not determine FW features info)
MEManuf comes with similar error codes.
To me, that would indicate there is no ME in the bios, but if I look in Device Manager I see the Intel Management Interface. I read, that the Mei is not in the bios like ME so that looks like the ME is not in the bios. The AMT and TPM are in the bios.
Intel 6 series and QM67 chipset.
Can anyone point me in the right direction how to get the ME (updated) in the bios?

@plutomaniac

Installed MEI V11.0.0.1162. The device manager says Intel Management Engine Interface driver 11.0.0.1160.
I'll wait, thx


Edit: I added the HWInfo64 ME data on 2 pictures for info.

This is what I get.
In my previous post I added also HWinfo info.

When I bought this system, it was defective and the password was missing. I contacted HP and they helped me with a SMC file to clear all. Regretfully this was not working.
Than I bought a pre-programmed chip on Ebay and put this on the board. It was not functioning poper, missing system data and I had to use wndmifit to put in correct data. that went ok.

The problem occured after updating bios.

I use the dos versions because in windows the dos window closes to quick. The result is the same.
If I use x86 version, I get a error that he can't function on 64 bit version.

result spi.bin is error 26

@plutomaniac

Will be busy with this one a little bit, will come back asap.

Regretfully it did not work




What also happened is, the system has bios version F60 and the latest is now F61. When I do the update, it is executed correctly, but afterwards it still have version F60. So it is not writing, although it seems to go good.


The link isn't working.

Driver version of MEI is 11.0.0.1160.

It looks entirely possible that the spi get corrupted by something else,
so many things I tried before.

I tried under windows/dos window, I can try with dos/usb .

Thanks anyway for your efforts.

In Dos mode Me is installed correct, but the "ME is in recovery" message stays.
In the pictures you can see the FW update went correct and HWinfo shows the new version also.

I changed the chip only.2 times. The supplier send the first chip with old bios F08 and I try to re flash it but ended with a black screen. The supplier send me a new one with latest version F60.
It had a message that the "manufacturing program mode set" was open and I closed it ? There was no system ID , therefor I received the program winmifit as metioned
On the picture with the system data you can see 68SCF family. This picture was direct after the chip replacement.
Further the pictures from `Dos MEinfo and MEmanuf. sorry for the quality.




I don't know which one I had because I could not get into the bios because of the startup password. I did not know of the 2 versions and only looked for 8560p