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@ all: Please read this before posting into this thread: This thread has been designed by me for users, who want to do the required BIOS modification themselves by following this guide. Users, who want to get an alre…

Intel Converged Security Management Engine Drivers, Firmware and Tools CSME 16+ Last Updated: 2022-09-10 Intel Management Engine Introduction: Built into many Intel-based platforms is a small, low power compute…

Intel, AMD, VIA & Freescale CPU Microcode Repositories Discussion Topic This thread is meant as a place to discuss the CPU Microcode Repositories. You can find all details and download links at the project's Github pag…

Intel (Converged Security) Management Engine: Drivers, Firmware and Tools for (CS)ME 2-15 Last Updated: 2022-09-08 Intel Management Engine Introduction: Built into many Intel-based platforms is a small, low power com…

All currently known Intel, AMD and VIA CPU microcodes have been made available by plutomaniac (AKA platomav on Github) for the Win-RAID community! MICROCODES Note that this thread will be updated from Plutomaniac’s Git…

Radeon Polaris: How Do I..? Guide UPDATE:09/06/2021 If you have read this guide and really don't feel confident in making changes yourself you can always provide me with a copy of your vBIOS along with what GPU-Z says …

Intel Firmware Repositories: (CS)ME, (CS)TXE, (CS)SPS, GSC, PMC, PCHC, PHY & OROM Last Updated: 2022-06-05 This is a collection of every Intel Engine (CSME, CSTXE, CSSPS, ME, TXE, SPS), Graphics (GSC), PMC, PCHC, PHY & …

EDIT by Fernando: @all visitors of this thread: Since the thread opener Nyctophilia hasn’t been online for a very long time and his guide may not be up-to-date anymore, I recommend to read >this< additional statement wri…

After reading the research done by Trammell Hudson, Nicola Corna, Federico Amedeo Izzo and other members of the open source firmware initiatives, I decided to do some tests on an ASRock P55 Extreme system which comes wit…

Guide-How To: Unlock Intel Flash Descriptor Read/Write Access Permissions for SPI Servicing Last Updated: 2018-03-20 This guide is relevant to those who need to understand what the Intel Flash Descriptor is, how its SPI…