@MeatWar I found a manual which explains most of those settings, it has ways to enable DMI and force gen 4x2.0.which is what is needed! il remove that bios ASAP, it is deadly,, il upload the manual and other ich7 stuff I found , there's load shedding here for the past two hours meh 😑 - Load shedding over woohoo!

Here is the in depth bios guide i mentioned: https://mega.nz/file/mIR3EYaa#dKnrKnSuw7...dXpZhMXJOMoUYH0
The bios setting i want to enable is on page 44 DMI gen2


Il try the ME update soon and report back, hopefully the ME or the DMI setting will be the solution. I won't change anything that's not necessary.


Thanks for everything 🙂 I've learnt more since the last time and it's because you didn't give up, really, thank you bro

Hi Master's @MeatWar and @plutomaniac ,

Upon investigating your solution i found the following setting which can be changed via intel ME update - FTC wizard:


Please could you advise what selections i should make in terms of the intel ME update via the FTC wizard?



Please what selections to make here? i see the pci to pci bridge is already enabled for the I/O controller currently and the block diagram only shows the one pcie port to be of that nature.
I believe this needs to be true for the onboard LAN ? is there anything else i should do here?










Please could you advise what other selections i should make in terms of the intel ME update via the FTC wizard?
What else should i be careful of or not do/should do?

I feel this is the right way to enable dmi on the PCH pcie slot! i even thought id need to do that in the start and then forgot about it completely!

I am using the 1.5MB FW Bring Up Guide 8.1.0.1248 PV.pdf , will look for the updated one later.

@plutomaniac Please let me know if i should update bios with full uncompressed nvme .dxe and then run the intel ME FTC wizard.
-just wana have full pcie x16 @3.0 at top and pcie x4 @ 2.0 at the bottom via pch.
-(This is a bonus request and isnt important-if theres a way to increase my cpu multiplier passed 43 that would be great)

My hwinfo log can be found here if you want more info :


If you have any noob guides i can refer to would appreciate it!
This is my current intel ME:





Thanks bro <3 tip coming your way soon (LOL figured out how to add pics finally)

@mrplamp
I see u very committed to the subject...u should address to plutomaniac regarding his expertise area...the Intel MEI.
Is the best person to guide u on this area and respective Intel tools.

:) honestly bro its all your fault i restarted this effort. I'm so glad you cautioned my madness the other night, woulda defoz bricked.

Can't wait for my old system to be wrecking!!! i started streaming for charity on twitch to help families during covid lockdowns. Can't wait to go back with a bang!

Hey guys, a quick one:

if i overwrite my mcodes with the latest UBU the offset changes from:




To :



Any idea why that would be and would it make any difference? i am not going to overwrite, just curious .

hi, im ready to help u build new bios mod, i havent this motherboard and i need ur help
1)install official bios f15a
2)download ME 8 1.5MB v8.1.70.1590
download ME System Tools v8 r3 - (2017-11-19)
4)copy 8.1.70.1590_1.5MB_PRD_RGN.bin to C:\Bios\cpu\Intel ME System Tools v8 r3\FWUpdate\Local-Win64
open cmd as administrator and write
cd C:\Bios\cpu\Intel ME System Tools v8 r3\FWUpdate\Local-Win64
FWUpdLcl64.exe -F 8.1.70.1590_1.5MB_PRD_RGN.bin
5)reboot pc
6)open again cmd as administrator
cd C:\Bios\cpu\Intel ME System Tools v8 r3\Flash Programming Tool\Windows64
fptw64 -d backup.bin -bios

now u need upload backup bios for me, this backup already with me firmware 8.1.70.1590
i will download it and update ur bios for u :)

Heyy @qus1 just busy with work. As soon as I dont need PC 100% will run my ME by you and update as instructed. Should be by the weekend.Thank you

i havent access to pm, u need update ME firmware before backup bios, because after u will update ME firmware u will have bios with new ME

ok updated, but my bios is smaller now?
C:\ESD\Intel ME System Tools v8 r3\Intel ME System Tools v8 r3\Flash Programming Tool\Windows64>fptw64 -d backup.bin -bios

Intel (R) Flash Programming Tool. Version: 8.1.60.1561
Copyright (c) 2007 - 2014, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

Platform: Intel(R) Z77 Express Chipset
Reading HSFSTS register... Flash Descriptor: Valid

--- Flash Devices Found ---
W25Q64BV ID:0xEF4017 Size: 8192KB (65536Kb)


- Reading Flash [0x800000] 6144KB of 6144KB - 100% complete.
Writing flash contents to file "backup.bin"...

Memory Dump Complete
[[File:backup.zip]]

ok i extracted the ME also
C:\ESD\Intel ME System Tools v8 r3\Intel ME System Tools v8 r3\Flash Programming Tool\Windows64>fptw64 -d me.bin -me

Intel (R) Flash Programming Tool. Version: 8.1.60.1561
Copyright (c) 2007 - 2014, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

Platform: Intel(R) Z77 Express Chipset
Reading HSFSTS register... Flash Descriptor: Valid

--- Flash Devices Found ---
W25Q64BV ID:0xEF4017 Size: 8192KB (65536Kb)


- Reading Flash [0x200000] 2044KB of 2044KB - 100% complete.
Writing flash contents to file "me.bin"...

Memory Dump Complete
FPT Operation Passed
[[File:me.zip]]


[[File:outimage.zip]]

I really still dont understand wot ur doing or wot u want to do...sincerely strange.
Ok m8 wot u did was dumping only the bios region, thats why is smaller (-bios) switch used.
Dump the full spi image with FPT -d mydump.bin

bios mods
me firmware 8.1.70.1590 update ahci + microcode cpu + added nvme module + mod if u need x4 speed in pci5 slot
for flash
FPTW64 -f modNVME_NEWZ77MD3H.15a or FPTW64 -f modNVME_NEWZ77MD3H.15a-pci5-x4speed

Dear master @MeatWar and Sir @qus1 ,

Thank you again for being here.

To answer your question @MeatWar just want gpu in main pcie slot to work (cpu x16) with m.2 ( ich/pantherpoint x4) - only one works at a time.

So just to give some feedback on what happened on Tuesday-
After updating intel ME , i then customized my pch according to 1.5mb FW bring up guide 8.1.0.1- this disabled the blk
I was scared to try the adapter since it properly fucks the pc up- my bios was set as other OS, and all on uefi only and as instructed.

-So i insert the adapter and i literally only got the pc to work like 15min ago :'( --( i think if i had the OS on win 8 whql it would atleast have read the m.2 adaptor and ignored gpu like before.
-It ended up in a bios corruption loop because the bios refused to save settings- it would just stay on then do the short clicks until you power off.

literally did not want to change from IDE/save bios settings with or without gpu for like 4 hours.:( was so scared, thought i lost this baby and i shorted something.

eventually i had to restore a bios which had a cheksum of 800A?? something like that, Think its the bios backup i made before doing the ME update.

Im thinking to save this bios now and change the default sata settings to ahci in ambios 4.5 just so this issue is avoided in future...

Sir @qus1 thanks for going out of your way.
I'll just let the pc be operational for now , will try your mods as soon as my replacement m.2 adaptor comes through(they sent a damaged one, its this adaptor: https://www.vantecusa.com/products_detail.php?p_id=259)

Please could you advise if my issue could be any of the following:

A)-pcie to pci bridge softstrap enabled bt needs to be disabled even though mobo has pci-to-pci bridge? I think this is causing all this based on what ive learnt?
on mine its on pcie slot 4 ( the soft strap is set to port 1-4 : 1x4 )
[[File:2021-06-06 03_57_25-.png|none|auto]]

-the device class of pcie express 1 where it located is :Device Class: PCI-to-PCI Bridge - should be DMI?


B) i need to correct my VSCC tables so that my Chipset DMI x4 is exactly that and not what HWinfo shows for J6B1 ( also so that PEG remains gen3 x16 only and cannot do x8 which means its in crossfire mode)


[[File:mrPlampHWback2oldbios.zip]]


Do i just remove and just leave the vcss tables alone?


i'm gong to update your @qus1 's pcxiex4 version bios and just test out some performance !

Thank you and godbless brothers <3

@qus1 hey man the bios bricked until i loaded backip bios.

I mistakenly locked pdr but managed to atleast get bios and ME working again. Not sure how to undo :
latform: Intel(R) Z77 Express Chipset
Reading HSFSTS register... Flash Descriptor: Valid

--- Flash Devices Found ---
W25Q64BV ID:0xEF4017 Size: 8192KB (65536Kb)

--- Flash Image Information --
Signature: VALID
Number of Flash Components: 1
Component 1 - 8192KB (65536Kb)
Regions:
Descriptor - Base: 0x000000, Limit: 0x000FFF
BIOS - Base: 0x200000, Limit: 0x7FFFFF
ME - Base: 0x001000, Limit: 0x1FFFFF
GbE - Not present
PDR - Not present
Master Region Access:
CPU/BIOS - ID: 0x0000, Read: 0x0B, Write: 0x0A
ME - ID: 0x0000, Read: 0x0D, Write: 0x0C
GbE - ID: 0x0118, Read: 0x08, Write: 0x08

Total Accessable SPI Memory: 8192KB, Total Installed SPI Memory : 8192KB

FPT Operation Passed

C:\ESD\Intel ME System Tools v8 r3\Intel ME System Tools v8 r3\Flash Programming Tool\Windows64>fptw64 -f outimage1.bin

Intel (R) Flash Programming Tool. Version: 8.1.60.1561
Copyright (c) 2007 - 2014, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

Platform: Intel(R) Z77 Express Chipset
Reading HSFSTS register... Flash Descriptor: Valid

--- Flash Devices Found ---
W25Q64BV ID:0xEF4017 Size: 8192KB (65536Kb)

PDR Region does not exist.
GBE Region does not exist.

Error 25: The host CPU does not have write access to the target flash area. To enable write access for this operation you must modify the descriptor settings to give host access to this region.

The error u got is correct since the bios file has bios lock strings enable to access regions, u can unlock it if u want and flash it back, and those errors are gone (Provided that u never flash back the original Gigabyte bios update file)

So... did u manage to test the mod provided by qus1, regarding the conjunction of PCIe3.0x16 GPU + PCIe2.0x4 M.2 Adaptor?
Before it broke...

Last post u said u were going to update "his mod bios file"...i n wot matter do u mean as "Update"?

hi again, i have z68p-ds3 and method works for me. i cant to add link to thread idk why but u can find manual. open google and write "z68p-ds3 bios win-raid" thread NVMe module integration to Gigabyte Z68P-DS3, message #80
for edit bios in Flash Image Tool we need to change in hex 00 00 to 80 01 if this is doesnt works for ur bios i dont know anymore) sorry)