Hello!
strange problem with friends dell precission m6800 - few days ago it begin to turn off after 30 minutes
in bios log there are mark ASF2 power off
cannot update bios and also drivers for IME refuses to install with error - not for this platform
while google this problem I found a link to Missing Intel ME from laptop which makes it suddenly lose power every 30 minutes exactly!
and thank’s to plutomaniac have found next:
MEInfo\WIN64>MEInfoWin64.exe -fwsts
Intel(R) MEInfo Version: 9.1.45.3000
Copyright(C) 2005 - 2017, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
FW Status Register1: 0x00003006
FW Status Register2: 0x80040000
FW Status Register3: 0x00000000
FW Status Register4: 0x00000000
FW Status Register5: 0x00000000
FW Status Register6: 0x00000000
CurrentState: Disabled and waiting to timeout
ManufacturingMode: Disabled
FlashPartition: Valid
OperationalState: Transitioning
InitComplete: Initializing
BUPLoadState: Success
ErrorCode: Image Failure
ModeOfOperation: Normal
Phase: Unknown (8)
ICC: No valid OEM data, ICC not programmed
ME File System Corrupted: No
it is possible that previous owner of this machine experementing with bios as it is in debug mode as described here
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/…/#post-10204348
Intel (R) Flash Programming Tool. Version: 9.1.10.1000
Copyright (c) 2007 - 2014, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Platform: Intel(R) QM87 Express Chipset
Reading HSFSTS register… Flash Descriptor: Valid
— Flash Devices Found —
W25Q64BV ID:0xEF4017 Size: 8192KB (65536Kb)
W25Q32BV ID:0xEF4016 Size: 4096KB (32768Kb)
— Flash Image Information –
Signature: VALID
Number of Flash Components: 2
Component 1 - 8192KB (65536Kb)
Component 2 - 4096KB (32768Kb)
Regions:
Descriptor - Base: 0x000000, Limit: 0x000FFF
BIOS - Base: 0x600000, Limit: 0xBFFFFF
ME - Base: 0x005000, Limit: 0x5FFFFF
GbE - Base: 0x001000, Limit: 0x004FFF
PDR - Not present
Master Region Access:
CPU/BIOS - ID: 0x0000, Read: 0xFF, Write: 0xFF
ME - ID: 0x0000, Read: 0xFF, Write: 0xFF
GbE - ID: 0x0118, Read: 0xFF, Write: 0xFF
Total Accessable SPI Memory: 12288KB, Total Installed SPI Memory : 12288KB
FPT Operation Passed
Could you please guide me what to do next to resolve this problem with power off after 30 minutes ?
Thank you!
The ME firmware is corrupted. From what I can tell from “fpt -i”, your Flash Descriptor is unlocked so you have read/write access to the ME firmware region of the SPI/BIOS chip. Thus, you need to dump your SPI image via “fpt -d spi.bin”, follow [Guide] Clean Dumped Intel Engine (CS)ME/(CS)TXE Regions with Data Initialization and flash back the output via “fpt -f outimage.bin” followed by “fpt -greset”. After the restart, the system should show a healthy output at “MEInfo -fwsts” and not shutdown every 30 minutes.
Dear plutomaniac!
Thank you VERY MUCH!
following your guide for me take 2 hours - but sure you spend a LOT more time to write this GUIDE and for sure put some love for users of IME 
MEInfoWin64.exe -fwsts
Intel(R) MEInfo Version: 9.1.45.3000
Copyright(C) 2005 - 2017, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
FW Status Register1: 0x1E000255
FW Status Register2: 0x68002306
FW Status Register3: 0x00000300
FW Status Register4: 0x00000001
FW Status Register5: 0x00000000
FW Status Register6: 0x00000000
CurrentState: Normal
ManufacturingMode: Enabled
FlashPartition: Valid
OperationalState: M0 with UMA
InitComplete: Complete
BUPLoadState: Success
ErrorCode: No Error
ModeOfOperation: Normal
Phase: HOSTCOMM Module
ICC: Valid OEM data, ICC programmed
ME File System Corrupted: No
link to your ME Analizer - which is great soft to find exactly which version is on system - if you can put it in bold - it will be easy for novice
one question is open - why it is happens with IME in bios?
At least your guide is answer to next question - what to do if it is happened!
THANK YOU!!!
Great, I’m glad you were able to solve the problem. Enjoy your repaired system.
If you mean "why this happens", it is usually just bad luck. At least your Flash Descriptor was already unlocked, otherwise you would have needed to follow [Guide] Unlock Intel Flash Descriptor Read/Write Access Permissions for SPI Servicing which is a pain usually.
Dear plutomaniac!
what’s interesting, almost a year later - the problem repeated again - every half an hour this laptop turns off
meinfo shows that is IME damaged as year ago
very glad that saved the flash drive with outimage.bin - just rewritten and greset
but the question then remains - why is this happening and how to fix this problem?
Thank you!
Well, a lot of hypothesis here. Could be that the SPI chip is going bad and the ME file system gets corrupted from time to time. Or maybe the BIOS does something wrongfully from time to time. Or the ME just manages to corrupt itself for some reason. Who knows really. But at least you are able to repair it very easily.
Yes - at least repair this time was much easy task!
Thank you again for your guide!
No problem, I’m glad you found help here.
So in the end there is no solution of this problem? (30 minutes then shut down)