You will need to swap this new/repaired/clean ME FW image with the existing one in the current system BIOS full dump and flash it.
EDIT: Swap not merge…UEFI tool for operation or HEX editor.
If you don’t know what to do, hand it over to someone that understands and has experience of these operations.
IT techs also need to put food on the table…rigth…
Thank you,
Sorry but I am not exactly an expert.
Should I flash it with the external flasher on the bios chip or I need to do something prior?
Or merge the file provided by @karfel with the original bios file? How?
Sorry again…
Not sure what I should do.
I can try to do it myself if there is some guide to follow.
Having an external flasher I cannot do any catastrophic errors.
Just there is one thing I fail to understand:
If I erase and reprogram the bios chip with the programmer, why the ME portion isn’t correctly loaded?
Seems like it is on a separate chip outside of the bios.
No…not in these bios generation yet, only some modern ones 16/32Mb up and/or some OEM choices, of using multiple ICs.
Your ME FW image is a partition on the main Bios SPI IC, the SOIC8 DIP.
When its corrupted, no regular tools will fix it, only cleaning/reinitialize the image and manualy programm the (1 as whole IC in your case) present mboard SPI ICs.
EDIT: Not all Asus bios files are ready for use in programmer…most modern bios generations, even worse, yours should be ready…so yes.
All images must be extracted from the CAPSULE (signature) or won’t work in programming.
The downside of this operation is getting a bios flashed with no original data, that needs to be taken from old original dump. Plenty of info on the forum to read and learn.
Not sure I understood, if I use an external programmer like a T48 or ch341a I should be able to wipe completely the chip.
Assuming it is not damaged.
The T48 can take .cap files. I used it multiple times with ASUS motherboards.
And I can extract the .bin portion from the .cap file and flash it with afudos or the ch341a.
Done this also multiple times.
There should me more.
So basically if I use another blank eeprom and reprogram it with a bios taken from ASUS website, I would obtain the same result?
Karfel shared the Z97P.cap bios, it was complete, not only a portion.
And I flashed it with my T48. No luck
Reverted to the first bios release, with Flashback method. This time, after rebooting I saw the familiar phrase “bios updating…” on top of the screen.
It happens when other parts of the board, apart the bios chip itself, are updating.
So maybe the ME portion is somewhere else after all (I read on badcaps that it shoud be loaded into the PCH itself).
Unfortunately, after rebooting, I obtain again a big fat N/A…
Probably I should follow this instructions:
But it is way too complicated for me to be honest.
Sir…get the Asus bios file v2702, open your original dump with FD44 editor and transfer your mb data to the 2702 CAP file, now extract the Intel image with UEFI tool 0.28/0.25, save it as 2702.bin and program the IC.
Later update it to latest 3503 using USB BFB and in windows after correct ME Driver installed, manually update the ME FW to 9.1.40.1000, according the guide.
Job done and finished.
Nothing more to add as it’s the correct procedure for recovering this generation board/bios with a programmer.
No damm it, can’t you see that you just dumped a bios_region of 6Mb and the SPI is 8Mb…its right in front of you to READ…ON A SCREEN!!!
If the ME FW partition is part of the full SPI data, where do you want to merge a shared/fixed new ME FW image or how do you want to fix the whole SPI Bios with only a portion.
Do you even read the linked guides/threads… you don’t to read fine, you can stop right here.
Use the damm programmer to read and save sir…unbelivable…
EDIT: Oh i will for sure… you can take my word for it.
