Zitat von jeroenvtec im Beitrag #29

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thanks for the tip, the one you have bought is that ok ? ( I also did read that :))

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Zitat von jeroenvtec im Beitrag #29

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ah with "the ME region extracted from the latest ASUS 1601 SPI image" you mean you download the asus ME firmware and did not get that out of the bios file ?

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As long as you can read, dump & flash the SPI chip, the other stuff are trivial. You can use the cleanup guide at the full SPI dump. With such programmers, you always flash back the entire SPI image, not just a section. I suggest this: if you manage to dump the full SPI image, compress and attach it here and I'll clean it for you. There is a chance that such cleaning is the only thing your HP needs (hope for the best, expect the worse like HP provisioning gone rogue as previously discussed) so at least lets make sure it's done properly.

So you replaced the SPI chip with the pre-flashed one? Does it work without the ME error?

The attached file is the old chip's dump, right? It seems properly dumped but the BIOS region of the SPI is either corrupted or not properly dumped. Since the ME region seems ok, it has to be the former. Your problems must certainly be due to that broken BIOS. I could clean the ME but with such a BIOS, it won't matter.

No matter what, make sure to keep backups of whatever you have (old chip dump, new chip "wrong bios" dump etc) just in case.

Try the ME cleanup guide on your dump. I'd be surprised if it actually solved the problem with that BIOS. The stock BIOS from HP doesn't have these problems. But now that you have the required tools, certainly give it a go.

I think that the ME must not be left at an unprovisioned state. So you should enter MEBx after the cleanup and configure everything. Maybe the cleanup + provisioning of the ME is enough.

I don't have any knowledge on the HP DMI tools or similar (I assume you are referring to those with that "1.29"), only ME. But it would be very interesting if you managed to fix this issue in some way.

Ah, you got a CH341A. Yes, I used the archive uploaded by CodeRush at his thread as well. It was a long time ago, don't remember the version. And it doesn't matter, if it works and can read/write, you are ok.

Yes, it is proper now. So the previous dump was corrupted. Use 1.18 version from now on. For future reference, use UEFITool to determine if a dump is corrupted.

I did the ME cleanup for you and have attached the new SPI image.

While I was doing that I realized that the pre-SKL cleanup guide needs to be rewritten because currently it doesn't transfer some 5MB specific settings (WCOD + LOCL) but it works just fine if the post-SKL "save xml" method is followed. I'll find some time to fix it but for now, use the attached SPI image with cleaned/configured ME.

It's unfortunate that your backup was corrupted. Bad luck atop of other bad luck. If you want a clean/unprovisioned BIOS, I assume you should take the one provided by HP at their website. For the ME region, at whatever SPI you end up building, take the one from the fix I attached above. The fixed ME region is ready/good, you just need to combine it with a proper BIOS (whatever that means when it comes to HP weirdness) and then provision it at first boot via MEBx.