8.1.40.1416 = 9.0.0.1287

Lordkag:

Do you have any 5MB 7-series (ME8) or up systems? Pacman and I found something interesting recently about partial FW Updates (FWUpdLcl -f ME.bin -partid WCOD/LOCL) but it can only be tested on such machines. Here is our conversation/findings:

Zitat von Pacman

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Also i wanted to ask you, what do you know about the "PFU.bin" files in every 5MB ME driver package? I was wondering about the layout, have you looked anything at these?

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Zitat von plutomaniac

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Where is that PFU.bin? I've never seen it before.

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Zitat von Pacman

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You have to do this with a 5MB driver package, they are not present in 1.5MB.

Extract "SetupME.exe" with Uniextract 1.7.9, in the "SetupME" folder you can either run "ME_App_x64.msi" it will not ask anything or say when it is done.
Or extract it, (but then the filenames will be different)
If you installed it, then go to Program files (x86)\intel\lms
now there are four xx_PFU.bin files there, open in hexeditor.

I just found these files, but from what i have found so far is that they have a striking resemblens to a FW file,
and try to run for example "Fwupdlcl -fwver 10_pfu.bin" it will tell you the version of it.

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Zitat von plutomaniac

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Very interesting, indeed you are right. These however are not "ME" firmware. Not Regions and not Update images. Instead of the typical three $MN2 regions (two $MN2 for UPD) there are around 30 of them in such files. These files seem to have to do with languages, there is an $MN2 section for each language signified by $MMELOCL.

$MMELOCL_EN
$MMELOCL_FR
$MMELOCL_GER
$MMELOCL_CH
$MMELOCL_JPN
$MMELOCL_RUS
$MMELOCL_ITA
$MMELOCL_ESP
$MMELOCL_PTB
$MMELOCL_KOR
$MMELOCL_CHS
$MMELOCL_ARA
$MMELOCL_CZE
$MMELOCL_DAN
$MMELOCL_GRE
$MMELOCL_FIN
$MMELOCL_HEB
$MMELOCL_HUN
$MMELOCL_DUT
$MMELOCL_NOR
$MMELOCL_POL
$MMELOCL_POR
$MMELOCL_SLK
$MMELOCL_SLV
$MMELOCL_SWE
$MMELOCL_THA
$MMELOCL_TUR

Maybe, you can use FWUpdLcl -f 80_PFU.bin -partid WCOD (or LOCL) and update the WCOD & LOCL partitions of the ME. These may be partial firmware updates as Intel calls them. Check -partid command at System Tools Guide. I've never seen them before so I cannot be sure.

Unfortunately I don't have time to test this theory today but probably tomorrow I will give it a shot at my Dual BIOS Z77 machine (ME8).

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Zitat von plutomaniac

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I don't think they are important for 2 reasons:

a) To my understanding, when a 5MB user updates the ME via FWUpdLcl it should also automatically update to the newer WCOD & LOCL sections. The -partid option is there in case a special/customized WLAN uCode or SOL Localization is needed.

b) These .bin files may actually be usable with FWUpdLcl directly but I'm not sure. Their intended purpose (and that's why the inclusion with ME 5MB Drivers) is to be flashed via Intel IMSS. I don't have a 5MB system but my guess is that IMSS software has a tab where you can update your WCOD & LOCL sections via gui. So, I don't know whether they are IMSS-compatible only or FWUpdLcl as well.

Basically, if these can be used/updated easily by an end-user software to automatically update WCOD & LOCL we don't have to do anything and thus I called them "unimportant". However, I don't have a 5MB system and unless I have practical experience this is all speculation.

Do you have any 5MB systems at and/or after 7-series (ME8 - first release to support partid) to test the above?

Aaa, forgot the link I wanted to attach to the previous pm: http://www.mediafire.com/download/40bygo...tial_Update.rar

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Zitat von Pacman

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Yes, you are right. It is to bad it wasn't anything usable, but, it is Always fun to poke around and see what you find :)

Unfortunately i don't have a 5MB system, so i can't really test either.

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Thank you iceman for the new FITC version which I checked and does not produce corrupted images so:

* Updated at ME System Tools v7.1: Flash Image Tool from v7.1.10.1065 --> v7.1.11.1069

WARNING: FITC v7.1.20.x & v7.1.30.x build corrupted images! Replaced with v7.1.11.x instead.

@ ex58:
Thanks for the links!

Zitat von ex58 im Beitrag #928

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DriverVer = 01/06/2015,10.0.38.1036

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Zitat von ErfanDL im Beitrag #929

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Please upload INF only driver

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Nothing new, the links from Intel are the same so I just renamed the text at first post.

The date that is shown at the new files is 06/01 because that's when someone from Intel copied them to a new directory to be packed for the driver. SHA-1 is the same, Digital Signature still from 09/2014.

@ xrfr8:

Welcome at Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your report.
It is fine, that you found here what you were searching for.

Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)

NEW! Intel ME10.0 1.5MB from v10.0.30.1072 --> v10.0.35.1012
NEW! Intel ME10.0 5MB from v10.0.30.1072 --> v10.0.35.1012

Note: VCN was raised from 2 to 3. You cannot downgrade to anything lower that v10.0.35.1012 after update.

@ GDT:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!

The Intel ME Firmware version has nothing to do with the Intel ME Driver version.
That means, that your system obviously can only use an Intel ME Firmware of the v9.1 development branch, whereas it has no problem to work with the Intel ME Drivers of the v10.0 branch.

Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)