I have an asrock z97 aniversary.
Does anyone know if i update the bios, the ime will be downgraded?
I think asrock flash all the uefi bios and also the ime region.

I ask because the new bios has older ime inside it.

this motherboard make something strange that i have never meet in my life.
All fuctions works ok.
if i for whatever reason want to clear uefi and use the jumper clear cmos it works ok.

If i make the mistake and remove the cmos battery and and dont move the jumper to clear cmos it take power but it dont start and it stays there doing nothing.
after 20 tries it starts with only one ram and works ok until i remove the cmos battery.

before update it has the 9.1.20 ime.
It is possible to to not be compatible with 9.1.37?

MEManuf and MEInfoTool reports no error.

OMG you guys are amazing!!! I had an issue on the ASRock Z77 extreme 4 motherboard with the multiplier being locked.

I used the FTK and got the error where the descriptor was locked on the motherboard so decided to try the pinmod method.

I made a test bench today. Essentially rebuilt my computer on the table, found the pins I needed to short, made a tool using one of those cable wrap things with plastic and a long strand of metal inside and bent it to the width of pins 1 and 5.

I held the tool I made with a pair of long nose pliers and held it as best as possible on the test bench on pins 1 and 5.

It was so difficult as since the bios was corrupted, I could only use a graphics card adapter for the video, not the onboard graphics or any other PCIE slot and since the only slot I could use was above the REALTEK chip, I had to work around it.

However, after a few tries and a few restarts, it finally worked! I was amazed.

However, I was wondering: I didn't seem to get the opportunity to reflash the bios, I just got a screen that came up and said the Intel ME Firmware was being updated, it updated and when I removed the short off the pins, it restarted, I went into the BIOS and BAM. All the features had returned and everything was working okay again.

I got the board pre-owned since they are not manufactured anymore so my guess is that the previous owner tried to update the BIOS but failed which then corrupted the BIOS in the process and when I did the pinmod it allowed the previous update to finish which fixed the issue. Am I correct in thinking this? Anyway, you guys are amazing! For anyone else looking to do this and are worried since the pins are so small on the motherboard, I will post a picture of what I used to fashion the tool out of.

It is good as you can bend it to the required length and just hold it there in place with a pair of pliers. I do recommend taking apart your computer and making a test bench with it though as its a million times easier than trying to work around a case.

Thanks again!

So 11.7 is definetly just for Intel 8th generation?

That makes sense and I wouldn't put it past them, I have seen so many over sights in the past, I guess it's not too far of a stretch! I guess you can call it a lack of common sense. But yep, all updated to 2.9 and working, time to overclock finally! :)

Is there any way to downgrade the ME firmware ?
Not a hard flash method, something software.
New BIOS from manufacturer, with ME firmware upgrade, but the ME firmware I have installed is newer, so BIOS update will screw up the board.

I have a Asus Maximus Z270 Apex board.The last official Bios from Mar/17 had Me 11.6.0.1126 in it.I later did a me flash of me ver 11.6.29.3287 and all went fine.On the Asus Rog forum they released a Beta Bios this past week with a hyper thread fix that has me ver 11.7.0.1229 CON_H_D0 .I used the UBU Tool to check it and mod the new beta bios has me ver 11.7.0.1229 in it.I flashed the new modded beta bios and all went fine.Only thing was the me version in the bios is still on the one I flashed before ver 11.6.0.3287.Anyone have any idea why the me ver from the beta bios did not update.

ME Analyzer shows VCN 178..

How I can flash motherboards with socket 2066 and ME version 11.10? Will be FPT for 2066?