Yes of course, like I said I tried everything else first... this was my last "idea" to where the problem could be...

Alright I will probably try that tomorrow. Yes the other Laptop is running the excat same version and the same OS, in fact, it is running a clone version of my OS because she got her laptop first and we tried a clean install... which failed badly due to - SONY- , many things didn't work after a clean install like the webcam or any Sony software which was needed for some functions...

Ok I got her from her laptop now and tried it... I got an internal error while flashing her backup after 21%... should I be worried now? Should I reflash my old backup or is it fine without?

very good post about the Me system .
i updated fw of my x79 sabertooth without bug so i try with the hp touchsmart 600-1160 that has a hm57

i tried under dos 7 to flash with fw 4M et 8M , the photo of screen i made show resulting of trying to update with 4M , the 8M was nearly uploaded
so i wonder what i should do ?

i made screen capture under windows to help solving :
http://imgur.com/a/eGuJK
thx in advance

the meinfo screen is the second in the album , it shows firmware 6.0.31.1208
the same number is used in the read me file of the ibm me update with date of 2010/03/02 of the firmware update : http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds012852
i read things about the hm57 at page 21 of this topic but it was not like my trouble . despite that it seems flashable according to a pdf i found : http://komposter.com.ua/documents/System...ment_Engine.pdf
page 22 it says something about a sku of 8 M .

thx , i tested a lot of tools in the pack but none are really well with my mainboard hm57 .
at least i use the latest driver
this Me topic is very good for chipset 7 and latest ;']

I just realized that the backup made with -save is just 1,19 MB in size... why is that? is that the reason I'm not able to flash the backup file from my girlfriend via -F ?

I got an "internal error" while flashing her backup after 21%

Error 8741: FW Update Failed.

Error 8707: Firmware update failed due to an internal error

this is the exact error... so... it's not possible to downgrade I assume?

edit: btw. does it matter if I use the x86/x64 version? Obviously I have a x64 system, so I use the x64 version, but you always mention the x86 executable... just curious