@ Nerd:

Only the latest 9.1 5MB firmware fixes the Intel-SA-00086 vulnerability. Read the Warnings at the first post to understand 9.0 to 9.1 upgradability.

@ robsonbyte:

The CSME is responsible for the ICC (Integrated Clock Controller) among other things so, if your firmware is corrupted, it is possible that clocks/voltages are not set properly which could be the cause of those weird temperatures. Verify the firmware's health by running MEInfo & MEManuf tools, as explained at the first post.

Your mobo has Dual BIOS and probably unlocked Flash Descriptor for read/write access to the Engine region (try Flash Programming Tool with "fptw -d spi.bin" command). The BIOS is also from 2015 so it is likely that it does support 9.1 firmware but Gigabyte never opted to actually update it alongside.

Run MEInfo -verbose to see the status of the CSME. When you say "MEI", do you mean drivers or firmware? The firmware is called CSME. The driver is called MEI for Management Engine Interface. These terms are not interchangeable.

The CSME firmware is healthy, everything is fine. Make sure you have the latest ASUS BIOS installed, regardless of the CSME version, just in case it has issues. If you want to repair & re-flash the CSME firmware regardless of that fact that it seems to work just fine, you'll need to follow the Engine CleanUp Guide using the latest 11.8 firmware after unlocking read/write access to the Engine region of the SPI chip.

At step 7 it says the following:

Zitat

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If "Platform Integrity" section is missing or "OEM Public Key Hash" field is empty, proceed to the next step.

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If Re-key needed is already set to False, you're good to go.

Intel CSME 11.8 Consumer PCH-H Firmware v11.8.50.3460



Intel CSME 11.8 Consumer PCH-LP Firmware v11.8.50.3460 (NPDM + YPDM)



Intel CSME System Tools v11 r10

Intel MEI Driver v11.7.0.1067 MEI-Only Installer

Intel MEI v11.7.0.1067 for Consumer systems Drivers & Software

@ Walls:

They support upcoming platforms while dropping support for some older ones. Not relevant at this point, just use the latest 11.x ones.

@ 100PIER:

Yes