Firmware upgrade for Z77 series (you must have Intel Management Engine Interface drivers already installed):

- Download Intel ME8 Consumer 1.5MB Firmware v8.1.52.1496
- Download Intel FWUpdate Tool for ME8 Firmware v8.1.40.1456
- Unpack both to your Desktop
- Open cmd as administrator
- Type then hit Enter: cd C:\Users\Your Windows username\Desktop\Local-Win - for 32bit system or type: cd C:\Users\Your Windows username\Desktop\Local-Win64 - for 64bit system
- Type then hit Enter: FWUpdLcl.exe -f ME8_1.5M_Production.bin - for 32bit system or type: FWUpdLcl64.exe -f ME8_1.5M_Production.bin - for 64bit system
- When finished turn off your PC for a 30 seconds and turn it on

Testing:

- Download Intel MEManuf Tool for ME8 Firmware v8.1.51.1476
- Unpack content to your Desktop
- Open cmd as administrator
- Type then hit Enter: cd C:\Users\Your Windows username\Desktop\Windows - for 32bit system or type: cd C:\Users\Your Windows username\Desktop\Windows64 - for 64bit system
- Type then hit Enter: MEManufWin - for 32bit system or type: MEManufWin64 - for 64bit system
- If tests are green you're ok!

I think i got it, First Grabbing the full install mei drivers: v8.1.40.1416 for 1.5MB (not sure how to do it manually :/) Then using the above listed firmware and fwupdate tool and finally the memanuf tool for verification.

Thank you all for the help am trying to get everything in order to setup my first raid0 which led me to the rst drivers thread which led me here :D Once i finsih updating the mei its back to the rst, really love both threads cant thank you guys enough :D

Hrmm, thought adding out of series updates would add extra services that the chipset doesnt support and my affect performance ?

If thats not the case it would be ok to install all the most recent drivers/firmware 10.0/10.0 ? Or Drivers 10.0 Firmware 8.1

Success !! :D thx again (drivers 10.0 Firmware 8.1 tested green)

My ASRock Z87M Extreme4 motherboard is an 8-Series board, but despite this fact, ASRock has upgraded the ME firmware from 9.0.30.1482 to 9.1.2.1010. Namely, in the original motherboard firmware version 1.90 (file name Z87MEx41.90) the ME region had version 9.0.30.1482, while in the latest original motherboard firmware version 2.00 (file name Z87MEx42.00) the ME region has version 9.1.2.1010.
Screen capture about the ME version in the latest motherboard firmware:

This upgrade is contrary to this forum's warning: "Warning: For 8-series systems: use only v9.0 firmware and not v9.1 which is relevant for 9-series systems. Otherwise, you will face BCLK & Fan control issues after which going back to v9.0 firmware is difficult."

In August 2014, before I read any warning, I upgraded ME 9.1.2.1010 to 9.1.10.1005. It worked me flawlessly. In December I flashed to version 9.1.20.1035 and it works absolutely well, no BCLK or FAN control issues.
Now there is the newest ME firmware 9.1.25.1005, but I haven't tried it yet. The question is, that is it going to work for me? I wouldn't like to run into problems.

Fernando and plutomaniac: Thank you for your answer.
About two hours ago I flashed the ME firmware to the latest version 9.1.25.1005. Till now everything works well, like before. The MEManuf was OK. In the motherboard BIOS I tried to change the BCLK from the original 100 MHz to another value and restarted the computer: the change worked. If a related problem occurs, I will report it here.

Intel ME Firmware v10.0.30.1072 (5MB)

http://www.station-drivers.com/index.php...1072-%285MB%29/

I updated my Sony SVP-1321X9 to FW Version 9.5.41.1904 LP a while ago and didn't expierence any problems... till now, maybe? I wanted to use the Intel XTU software, but I always get an error message when I try to start it. I tried everything which was mentioned regarding starting problems and I still can't get it to run. When I search for my specific error message, I can't even find any results with google... I suspect the ME firmware because my girlfriend can run the program without any problems and she has the exact same modell as I, only with the original firmware. And from that horrible locked down notebook it wouldn't surprise me if Sony locked something in this regard too... I don't know if it's true or even possible... but can it be the firmware update? And if yes, could someone upload the Sony firmware which was removed here a while ago?

Flashing the bios again is not possible, the bios "file" is only an exe file which prompts now that I already have the current bios.

error message contains of two overlaping windows: