hi at akk!!!, i have maximus ix hero with ME 11.6.0.1126.. I wanto to update, but wich firmware? 11.6 or 11.7? @plutomaniac can you help me?

They released it (asus b85 plus )for my motherboard but i have already updates with your tools days before.
So asus bios was already prepared from the 9.1 firmware.
This tool update 9.0.xxxxx to 9.1.xxxxx firmware.

I have tested it .
it Is true that a bios reflash dont change the me firmware.
Also this tool they provided only updates me firmware so if anyone want to update it, must make sure that it has the latest bios the latest me driver and then to try to update the me.

Mine personal opinion is everyrone who want to update the me firmware to use your tool rather than this asus tool.
The me they provided is the latetest i hash it and i compare it with the latest provided in this forum. (it is the same)

Zitat von boombastik im Beitrag #3026

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They released it (asus b85 plus )for my motherboard but i have already updates with your tools days before. .....

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Hello,
Sorry for possible bad English.

I am new here and until now, I didn’t know that the ME firmware can be flashed separately from the BIOS.

So, I explain shortly why I came here.
I have an issue with desktop PC – after shut down or sleep, randomly, not each time, after 1-2sec it is turning itself back or wakes up from sleep (depending on what was selected earlier in windows - if ‘shut down’ then turns itself back, if ‘sleep’ or by sleep timer - wakes itself up). Tried many common advices from forums(clear cmos, ‘wake up’ options in BIOS and windows’s device manager and etc) - nothing helps. Other troubles, sudden restarts/shutdowns or BSOD I don’t see

So I contacted local storage’s warranty via email and described the situation, they said that the issue is probably caused by ME firmware, that prevents CPU to stay in C6 state.
I have Gigabyte GA-H81M-HD3 rev 2.0 motherboard with latest BIOS(FB 2015/08/11). It was already in warranty when was new. First time they said that ME was dead and they sent it to the supplier and then to the service, where it was flashed(I hoped it will be replaced, but it was repaired). And the warranty process took a ~month.

Now came that another issue. The motherboard is still under warranty, but I am a bit tired of that again I will have to wait about a month, while the motherboard in service. And now I must decide -whether to bring it to the service again or maybe it can be repaired myself. But I’m afraid of that I can ‘kill’ motherboard, if something goes wrong during flashing process.

So the case that PC is turning/waking up itself back, really can be caused by ME Firmware and reflashing/updating ME firmware can resolve that?

@andr84
Try the attached BIOS
with updated ME FW and disabled Anti-Theft Technology.
Flash it via Flash Programming Tool from Intel ME System Tools v9.0:

fptw64 -f outimage.bin
 

@Ferrous
thx. but Im not familiar yet with all that flashing tools so mby there is a separate simplified way.

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #3034

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@ andr84:

You have a Gigabyte board with Dual BIOS support. Switch to the 2nd chip (assumed untouched/operational) and tell me if the problem persists. Gigabyte leaves (at least used to back in the 8-series days) the read/write access to the ME region firmware unlocked so we can repair it if that's where the problem is. All you have to do is flash the latest BIOS from Gigabyte via the in-BIOS updater/flasher. But first lets see if the 2nd BIOS chip behaves the same way as well.

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@ plutomaniac
Yes, I was reading it already in the past and recently because I wanted to use second chip for test too, but there is no mentions about bios switch in User Manual. Maybe is need to inspect motherboard itself for that switch. But when I googled about switching gigabyte dual bios, I only found articles about how to force/kick recover process of main bios chip from backup chip.

@andr84
Press Ctrl+F10 while boot