You’ll end up spending $30-$40 for a new chip. Better off buying a Ch341a and doing it yourself.

Is this the same one?
https://www.amazon.ca/Programmer-CH341A-...r/dp/B01D4CXYJE

Is there anything else required? Link for instructions so I can start reading please. Thanks guys.

edit... I believe the bios chips on my board are soldered in, so I guess this option is out for me as well now.

There's a dead link in the first post section A3 - "Intel MEI v11.0.6.1194 for Consumer systems Drivers & Software". Clicking it I get "Fatal error - attempt to access unpublished file by non-admin user". Does anybody have a working link? I'm trying to get an older Z77 board up and running.

Zitat von Winter17 im Beitrag #3517

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Is this the same one?
https://www.amazon.ca/Programmer-CH341A-...r/dp/B01D4CXYJE
Is there anything else required? Link for instructions so I can start reading please. Thanks guys.
edit... I believe the bios chips on my board are soldered in, so I guess this option is out for me as well now.

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To our esteemed gurus on this thread was wondering can I use UefiTool to 'Replace as is' ME Region in the bios file to do a quick ME and Bios update all at once? For example upgrading 8.1.52 to 8.1.70.. or will machine specific settings not get transfered that way?

Thanks

Zitat von davidm71 im Beitrag #3519

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Zitat von Winter17 im Beitrag #3517

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Is this the same one?
https://www.amazon.ca/Programmer-CH341A-...r/dp/B01D4CXYJE
Is there anything else required? Link for instructions so I can start reading please. Thanks guys.
edit... I believe the bios chips on my board are soldered in, so I guess this option is out for me as well now.

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Yes that’s the one. You’ll need a soic 8 jumper cable as well. When I did mine I watched a lot of YouTube videos. Important to pay attention to orientation of pin one on the cable and adapter plate that interfaces onto the Ch341a. All on you tube.

Read this thread:
[Guide] Using CH341A-based programmer to flash SPI EEPROM (7)

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Yes it’s the same one I bought. Next I would advise you post to the CH341a thread as now going off topic.

Good luck.

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #3523

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@ ScottMN:

Fixed that one. Need to fix some older stuff too. Thanks for letting me know.

@ davidm71:

Proper settings won't be transferred, you need to use Flash Image Tool first on your own BIOS. Read CleanUp Guide's Section A.

@ Winter17:

Indeed the two BIOS chips are soldered. You can get a SOIC8 clip though, as already figured out. Regarding CH341A, from what Wootever figured out recently over at the CH341A thread, the black PCB version uses incorrect voltage without doing a small mod so if you can find the green PCB, get that. Generally, I advise you to read the CH341A thread to understand more and post there, in case of questions regarding its functionality or otherwise.

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Pluto,

If I have successfully flashed an ME update can I just use FTK to dump the provisioned ME file and use it to replace the old me region with Uefitool on my last bios release? Or would that rom be only good for my machine and no one else’s?

Thanks

So assuming I was able to configure a 'Clean' ME Region and using Uefitool to replace the ME region with my new cleaned ME file as I understand the bios rom will be ready to be flashed on another exact motherboard but will need:

fpt -greset

To be run??

Or is that only if you update the new boards ME with FWupdlcl in a command window?

Thanks

PS: Went through the steps and think i get it now what to do.. Thanks

If motherboard has dual BIOS and assume the main bios is buggy(and reflashing with built-in utility doesnt affect), forcing the procedure of recovering main bios from backup bios is equal to flashing it with built-in utility or it is more advanced algorithm(mby first erases all data on main chip and then fully rewrites it, similar to hardware programmer)?