Forum - RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools

#781 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:03 am

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #786
Originally 6-series came with ME7 but some of them could be later upgraded to ME8 in order to support Ivy Bridge processors. Your Z68 machine has been updated to ME8 so you need to update that version. Check the * near ME8 which takes you to the bottom of the main topic.

Gotcha!

In the past Fernando recommended the v9.0.0.1287 driver as the 9.5.x drivers and up are primarily for 7- and 8-series systems. Can you confirm? Or is the v10.0.30.1054 driver the recommendation today?

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#782 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:06 am

The ME driver does not really make any difference. v10 supports everything from 6-series & up and I recommend for you to install that.

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#783 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:07 am

Ok. Regarding flashing the ME firmware, I usually just use the MEInfo tool and restart the system. I read a few posts above and you said to him to "restart MAC". What does that mean?

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#784 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:09 am

That person has an Apple computer called MacBook. Nothing important.

To flash you need to use v8.x FWUpdate tool. The detailed instructions can be found at the main topic, scroll down a bit.

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#785 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:17 am

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #790
That person has an Apple computer called MacBook. Nothing important.

To flash you need to use v8.x FWUpdate tool. The detailed instructions can be found at the main topic, scroll down a bit.

Done :) What the heck, I meant FWUpdate in my previous post. Thanks for the help.

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#786 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:20 am

Sure, don't forget to also run MEManuf & MEInfo after flashing and restarting your system. Commands:

MEInfoWin64 (it should not report any errors)
MEManufWin64 (it should report MEManuf Operation Passed in green letters)

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#787 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:46 am (Last edited: Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:51 am)

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #792
Sure, don't forget to also run MEManuf & MEInfo after flashing and restarting your system. Commands:

MEInfoWin64 (it should not report any errors)
MEManufWin64 (it should report MEManuf Operation Passed in green letters)

I did those and all is good :) To install the driver though, should I just do it in device manager and let it automatically detect which inf file is appropriate? It will get the proper .sys files inside the x86/x64 folder, right?

My laptop is a Sager NP8130 and has an HM65 chipset. What ME firmware/driver is recommend for it?

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#788 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:53 am (Last edited: Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:58 am)

Zitat von kevindd992002 im Beitrag #783
@Fernando
What is the recommended firmware and driver set for the ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 running in AHCI and Windows 8.1 x64 nowadays? And is is recommended to install just the driver itself in Windows or should I install the software that comes with it also?

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #784
If you are talking about ME:
a) It has nothing to do with AHCI/RAID
b) Download v8.1.52.1496 1.5MB firmware and v10.0.30.1054 drivers (no software needed)

I totally agree with plutomaniac.

Zitat von kevindd992002 im Beitrag #793
To install the driver though, should I just do it in device manager and let it automatically detect which inf file is appropriate? It will get the proper .sys files inside the x86/x64 folder, right?

Yes, that is the correct and safest way to install a driver (but will only work this way with WHQL certified drivers, which are newer than the currently running ones).

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#789 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:26 pm

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #794
Zitat von kevindd992002 im Beitrag #783
@Fernando
What is the recommended firmware and driver set for the ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 running in AHCI and Windows 8.1 x64 nowadays? And is is recommended to install just the driver itself in Windows or should I install the software that comes with it also?
Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #784
If you are talking about ME:
a) It has nothing to do with AHCI/RAID
b) Download v8.1.52.1496 1.5MB firmware and v10.0.30.1054 drivers (no software needed)
I totally agree with plutomaniac.
Zitat von kevindd992002 im Beitrag #793
To install the driver though, should I just do it in device manager and let it automatically detect which inf file is appropriate? It will get the proper .sys files inside the x86/x64 folder, right?
Yes, that is the correct and safest way to install a driver (but will only work this way with WHQL certified drivers, which are newer than the currently running ones).

I do have a good memory, lol.

Thanks for the explanation, at least now everything is clear :)

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#790 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:15 pm

Zitat von kevindd992002 im Beitrag #793
My laptop is a Sager NP8130 and has an HM65 chipset. What ME firmware/driver is recommend for it?

I have a Clevo W25xHNx (Sager NP3250) laptop with an HM65 chipset as well. I'm running ME firmware v7.1.60.1193 & v10.0.30.1054 drivers under Windows 8.1 x64 perfectly fine. You shouldn't experience any issues even for our older 6-series systems.

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#791 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:11 am

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #796
Zitat von kevindd992002 im Beitrag #793
My laptop is a Sager NP8130 and has an HM65 chipset. What ME firmware/driver is recommend for it?

I have a Clevo W25xHNx (Sager NP3250) laptop with an HM65 chipset as well. I'm running ME firmware v7.1.60.1193 & v10.0.30.1054 drivers under Windows 8.1 x64 perfectly fine. You shouldn't experience any issues even for our older 6-series systems.

Thanks.

Does this mean something when I ran MEInfoWin on my laptop? Well, it doesn't use an Intel LAN card so I'm guessing that's what the error means but I just want to confirm.

Intel(R) MEInfo Version: 7.1.52.1180
Copyright(C) 2005 - 2011, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

PMXUtil: Error during PMX Call: PMxDrv!MAPPHYS - Bad Input Parameters
GBE Region does not exist.
Intel(R) ME code versions:

BIOS Version: 4.6.4
MEBx Version: 0.0.0.0
Gbe Version: Unknown
VendorID: 8086
PCH Version: 5
FW Version: 7.1.60.1193
UNS Version: Not Available
LMS Version: Not Available
MEI Driver Version: 10.0.30.1054
Wireless Hardware Version: 0.1.70
Wireless Driver Version: 15.14.0.2

FW Capabilities: 17833056

Intel(R) Anti-Theft Technology - PRESENT/ENABLED
Intel(R) Capability Licensing Service - PRESENT/ENABLED
Protect Audio Video Path - PRESENT/ENABLED
Intel(R) Dynamic Application Loader - PRESENT/ENABLED

CPU Upgrade State: Upgrade Capable
Cryptography Support: Disabled
Last ME reset reason: Power up
Local FWUpdate: Enabled
BIOS and GbE Config Lock: Unknown
Host Read Access to ME: Disabled
Host Write Access to ME: Disabled
SPI Flash ID #1: 1C3016
SPI Flash ID VSCC #1: 20052005
SPI Flash BIOS VSCC: 20052005
BIOS boot State: Post Boot
OEM Id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
OEM Tag: 0x00000000
EPID Group ID: 437

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#792 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:40 am

This is not a mistake, but your current computer without Intel Ethernet card

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#793 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Mon Dec 22, 2014 1:53 pm (Last edited: Mon Dec 22, 2014 1:53 pm)

@kevindd992002 Yes, everything looks just fine. Run MEManuf as well as I said above and that's all.

@Lipid Did you apply the new v9.5 firmware on your MAC? Did everything work out as expected?

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#794 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Mon Dec 22, 2014 3:07 pm (Last edited: Mon Dec 22, 2014 3:54 pm)

Zitat von plutomaniac im Beitrag #799
@Lipid Did you apply the new v9.5 firmware on your MAC? Did everything work out as expected?

Unfortunately, no positive result for me. Here is what I get:

I was a bit scared as it stated that the update procedure was still in progress. I rebooted Windows then, checked meinfowin64 - same fw there, 9.5.3.1526. Checked memanufwin64 -verbose - everything is ok, all tests passed in green.

Later I compared the dump I made with fptw64 -d BIOS.BIN -me with the firmware provided here (9.5.41.1904), and there is a difference in sizes - 1.55 MB vs 1.48 MB. So mine native ME firmware is larger than the one provided here. Probably that's why fwupdlcl returns me an error about invalid image length...

I also made a second 'update'-dump with fwupdlcl64 -save OLD2.BIN (which is 944 KB for me) after this unsucessful attempt and compared it with my original dump OLD.BIN to confirm that they are the same with identical checksum.

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#795 | RE: Intel Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware & System Tools datum

Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:43 pm

Normally this should not matter for FWUpdate. Your extracted ME region has a hex size of 18E000 (1.55MB), so I added some FF padding to the updated firmware image and made it 1.55MB (18E000) size as well. Try the attached file. Also don't be scared of FWUpdate, it's safe as it checks everything. FPT on the other hand is not (when flashing, not dumping).

plutomaniac has attached files to this post

ME9.5_1.5M_Production(FixedSize).rar

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