Zitat von 100PIER im Beitrag #1611

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Installing Driver Only (.1166) is OK.
I no longer user Package Set.

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Zitat von N6O7 im Beitrag #1613

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I have updated yesterday the driver v1160 INF Only to the v1166 using again the INF Only with the latest official Intel package MEI_allOS_1.5M_8.1.40.1416 already installed, so far no probs on my Z77 machine.

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Intel MEI Drivers & Software v11.0.0.1167 for Consumer systems
Intel MEI Drivers & Software v11.0.0.1163 for Corporate systems

Intel ME 11.0 Consumer PCH-H Firmware v11.0.0.1173

Zitat von Horstfuchs im Beitrag #1619

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Can you verify the statement made in the following post on Guru3D?
A user claims that timer resolution optimization was removed in the more recent releases of the MEI driver. Is this true?

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@ gihan :

There are three ways to combat this: a) use FWUpdate to downgrade the ME before flashing and then update it again, b) replace the ME Region with the one from the A13 update and then flash bios + update me manually again, c) modify the BIOS update files to ignore the newer ME and flash only BIOS

a) You cannot downgrade using FWUpdate because the 9.5.14 ME that is inside the A13 update has a VCN of 5 whereas your 9.5.45 ME has a newer VCN of 9.
b) Run Flash Programming Tool with command fptw -d SPI.bin and check if it reports Error 26. If it does, you cannot replace the ME Region with the one from the A13 update as your Flash Descriptor is locked.
c) I have attached the files that the A13 executable extracts (use WinRar v5.x). You can use SctWinFlash32 to manually flash your BIOS. The file you need in that case is DOH50A13.ROM.

Note: I take no responsibility for option c. It should work but I cannot even check the arguments of WinFlash without a PhoenixBIOS system.

@ those who send pms about the archives abeing "corrupt" :

They are not! WinRar v5.x or later is required. Read the first post carefully!

Zitat von Horstfuchs im Beitrag #1619

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Can you verify the statement made in the following post on Guru3D?
A user claims that timer resolution optimization was removed in the more recent releases of the MEI driver. Is this true?

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• At least it was the Intel MEI driver v11.0.0.1157 WHQL (and not the v11.0.0.1144 Beta), which gave my Z97 AHCI system the absolutely best READ and OVERALL performance. Even the WRITE scores were a little bit better than with all other 3 test candidates.
• The Intel MEI driver v11.0.0.1144 Beta was less performant than the v11.0.0.1157 WHQL, but gave me much better READ and OVERALL scores than the other 2 test candidates.
• The benchmark results, which I got with the latest Intel MEI drivers of the v10 and v11 series, were nearly identical. This verifies, that only the Intel MEI drivers of the v11.0.0.114x and v11.0.0.115x development branches have a noticeable positive impact on the performance of my Z97 system.
• It seems, that Intel had added a special Intel MEI performance boost feature, when the company began with the v11.0.0.xxxx development tree, but for unknown reasons they obviously have removed this feature, when they started with the 11.0.0.116x development branch.