I tried to open the firmware "Intel ME 7 1.5MB Firmware v7.1.80.1214" on fict with the tools provided (v7 r1) and got an error saying "Failed to perform decomposition. The image file you loaded is invalid." What's wrong? Is the v7.1 firmware that I downloaded from mediafire corrupted? Is it expecting a full BIOS file instead of an intel ME image? I'm able to open my bios file with the same fict without any errors.

@ plutomaniac:

Hello. I appreciate your expertise and have learned a lot from reading the previous posts. However, I have not seen one that pertains to my particular laptop. I have spoken to Dell multiple times and even called Intel, all without success.

I will give you as much information as I can. The laptop in question is a Dell Precision M2800. The issue started when I attempted to flash the BIOS to the latest version, which is A10. It appears to have successfully flashed the BIOS, but freezes at 0% Sending Intel Management Engine Firmware Update. The only way I could get out of it was to remove the power cord & battery and hold the power button for 20 seconds. I even disconnected the CMOS coin battery to try to reset the ME firmware that way. No luck. This laptop has a fresh install of Win 10 Pro x64 and the ME driver version I installed was 11.0.0.1163 ,A01 from Dell. Now, there is an issue in the Device Manager with the Intel Management Engine Interface: the status is "This device cannot start. (Code 10) STATUS_DEVICE_POWER_FAILURE". The Intel tech told me the problem is a mismatch between the firmware and driver. The MEBx also now says "FW Status Recovery Error" on boot and the laptop has randomly rebooted several times with a BIOS log entry of "ASF2 force off".

In my research, I have learned that the current ME firmware version is 9.0.31.1487 and the version the A10 BIOS is attempting to upgrade to is 9.1.41.3024. I have downloaded the v9.0 r1 tools and ran both MEInfo and MEManuf and received errors on both.

From another post, I suspect that I need to repair the ME Region. To do this, I saw you instruct @ mwilky to run the following commands:
fptw64 -rewrite -me -f ME.bin
fptw64 -greset
Then, re-install the driver

I guess my question is two-fold: is this correct and secondly, which .bin file should I use?

p.s. Here is a link detailing very similar behavior that referenced this site: https://apingxh.blogspot.com/2016/11/how...dell-e7440.html

Apologies if this doesn't belong here.

I want to unlock the FD for the latest 0906 ver BIOS for the Asus Prime Z270-A motherboard. If I understood correctly, for that to happen I just have to write FF to the bytes in red.

Which is BIOS/ME/GBE/EC region in order.

Is that correct?
Edit:fixed formatting

@ plutomaniac:

Done, thank you.

hi all, I updated my ASUS Maximus VIII ME Firmware to v11.7.0.1229 H a few months back, not long after ASUS brought out a BIOS update which I installed [3401]. I haven't kept up to date with what's been going on with the ME firmware updates since, but I do have some understanding about the security problem/fix.

On this subject does anyone with the same MB or a compatible MB / chipset know if the firmware v11.7.0.1229 is the most up to date version which includes the security fix? Or is there a newer version which I should install?

the reason I ask is because it appears that v11.7 firmware has been pulled down for there is only a placeholder for it at the start page of this thread, so I am a bit confused. Please excuse my ingnorance if the information is all explained in the first page, I usually do read everything that I can before I make such requests for help, but I am a bit pressed for time, I hope you guys understand. TIA

Intel Management Engine driver ver:11.10.0.1287 directly from ASRock.


Also, the Consumer ME, same version, from Gigabyte : http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Dri..._x299series.zip

I did not find them on the first page of this topic or on Station-Drivers.com, hence why I posted the links.

Hi
plutomaniac
I'm new to this forum and this thread.
I'm facing a problem in switching between intel and nvidia graphics card, I suspect that this is because intel me driver doesn't want to be installed and that,s because intel me fw version n/a line appears in the system info in bios.
Now I need to flash me but local update (FWUpdate) refuses but when I tried fptw64 it gave me this message.
should I continue or not?

@The Engineer
STOP before it's too LATE! You will BRICK your laptop if you proceed!

EDIT: What model of laptop are you using? Dump the SPI image with command fptw64 -d spi.bin , and upload it.

Zitat von Ataemonus im Beitrag #3075

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I did not find them on the first page of this topic or on Station-Drivers.com, hence why I posted the links.

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@ plutomaniac:

Thank you so much. I ran fptw64 -greset from EFI and received errors (see Results.zip for photo). As instructed, I then attempted to flash to BIOS version A10 again. I experienced the same freeze issue at 0% Sending Intel Management Engine Firmware Update.

I ran both MEInfo & MEManuf verbose from EFI and have attached the results (see Results.zip for .txt files).

The BIOS has no option to disable the ME. It only has an option to Enable or Disable the MEBx Hotkey, which I cannot tell makes any difference. I tried ctrl+p to access MEBx without success. The only option I see for MEBx is when I hit F12 on boot and select Intel(R) Management Engine BIOS Extension (MEBx) from the boot menu. However, when selected, it gives the error I mentioned previously, “FW Status Recovery Error”. I am then returned to the F12 menu where it no longer shows the MEBx option until a reboot.

I will await further instruction.