Dear all,
long time no see. Have not been actively engaged in the community for years but I have written CBROM BIOS Option ROM modding guides for nForce4 chipsets nearly 20 years ago 
But now I need your help.
I have a Lenovo M93p Desktop/Tower 10A7 (Haswell, Q87 chipset) that cannot boot from NVMe which I want to change.
The device was updated to the latest available firmware from Lenovo by the default Lenovo flash tool.
I read and followed several guides of this forum and want to describe what the issue is.
The board features three flash chips as desribed in this thread with pictures
The markings are not exactly the same with me: The 1MB chip has also a magenta dot but the positions of the blue and green dotted chips are switched. One is 8 MB and the other is 4MB in size.
I have a CH341A ready and took readings from the flash chips. However, I couldn’t manage to get my old SOIC8-clip to stick to the 4MB flash chip. So I have only flashrom backups of the 1 MB and the 8 MB chip.
I set the ME_DIS jumper of the board. Then with FPT (from the 9.1 ME Tools as I seem to have ME 9.0) in the EFI shell I managed to read out a dump of perfect 12 MB by fpt -d originalbios.bin.
I updated GOP and CPU microcode with UBU in the dumped file and inserted the NVMe module (full size) with MMtool for Aptio 4. Everything seemed to work fine.
Upon trying to flash back the new file with fpt -savemac -f moddedbios.bin I get the FPT error 280 that signals some kind of flash protection.
The hint here about some EFI driver didn’t help me much: Using FPT booting into DOS gives the same 280 error message so it shouldn’t be related to the EFI and any driver loaded. In this thread CodeRush also advises against flashing with AFUDOS. (I looked into it but the Lenovo BIOS update has several parts and doesn’t flash a single blob, so I didn’t pursue that further.).
I then found these two threads about the topic. Following the advice there, I used IFR extractor (first from within UBU) but it didn’t yield anything as output. I fired up UEFItool and looked according to the guide after similar module candidates.
And from that screenshot I think that what I need is the Module “MiniSetupResourceSection”
All occurences of Setup in the UEFI
Unicode text “Setup” found in IntelSaGopDriver/…/PE32 image section at header-offset C84h
Unicode text “Setup” found in 6FF958B1-118A-425A-BD63-4510542DF9B8/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 6F0h
Unicode text “Setup” found in CpuDxe/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 2FF4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in CpuDxe/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 31DCh
Unicode text “Setup” found in 87261FD4-81EA-4EFF-9A06-553F4096CCBE/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 18FCh
Unicode text “Setup” found in 87261FD4-81EA-4EFF-9A06-553F4096CCBE/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1912h
Unicode text “Setup” found in 714BC501-2EF3-41C0-ADD7-F18120A9FE7C/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1870h
Unicode text “Setup” found in 714BC501-2EF3-41C0-ADD7-F18120A9FE7C/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 18ECh
Unicode text “Setup” found in CORE_DXE/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 42E84h
Unicode text “Setup” found in CORE_DXE/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 431C0h
Unicode text “Setup” found in FlashDriver/…/PE32 image section at header-offset FBFCh
Unicode text “Setup” found in FlashDriver/…/PE32 image section at header-offset FF34h
Unicode text “Setup” found in FlashDriver/…/PE32 image section at header-offset FFB8h
Unicode text “Setup” found in D771275B-07B1-4706-9F4A-D99A2B672A44/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 2AB6h
Unicode text “Setup” found in D771275B-07B1-4706-9F4A-D99A2B672A44/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 2ADAh
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Unicode text “Setup” found in 52A5421E-B165-426E-858D-D2E18BEA3F7E/…/UI section at header-offset 04h
Unicode text “Setup” found in E247DFC7-A8C3-4A5F-96B3-EA29307357D7/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 624h
Unicode text “Setup” found in ReFlash/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 3DA4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in ReFlash/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 3F00h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in ReFlash/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 3F9Ah
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Unicode text “Setup” found in CpuPolicyInitDxe/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 15A4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in AmiTxtDxe/…/PE32 image section at header-offset BC4h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in SbDxe/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 8AAAh
Unicode text “Setup” found in AcpiModeEnable/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1AA4h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in SBSMI/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 2704h
Unicode text “Setup” found in SmBusMemoryDown/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 133Ch
Unicode text “Setup” found in NbDxe/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 522Ch
Unicode text “Setup” found in NbSmi/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 196Ch
Unicode text “Setup” found in ACPI/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 6E54h
Unicode text “Setup” found in S3Resume/PE32 image section at header-offset 1964h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in 5AA4988B-561C-49B6-88CD-2B5516C66B14/…/PE32 image section at header-offset BE14h
Unicode text “Setup” found in 5AA4988B-561C-49B6-88CD-2B5516C66B14/…/PE32 image section at header-offset BE4Ch
Unicode text “Setup” found in 5AA4988B-561C-49B6-88CD-2B5516C66B14/…/PE32 image section at header-offset BEF8h
Unicode text “Setup” found in 5AA4988B-561C-49B6-88CD-2B5516C66B14/…/PE32 image section at header-offset BFFEh
Unicode text “Setup” found in 5AA4988B-561C-49B6-88CD-2B5516C66B14/…/PE32 image section at header-offset C01Ch
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Unicode text “Setup” found in CopyRight/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1134h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in CEC0D748-7232-413B-BDC6-2ED84F5338BC/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 5BF4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in CEC0D748-7232-413B-BDC6-2ED84F5338BC/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 5CD4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in CEC0D748-7232-413B-BDC6-2ED84F5338BC/…/MiniSetupResourceSection at header-offset 530h
Unicode text “Setup” found in CEC0D748-7232-413B-BDC6-2ED84F5338BC/…/MiniSetupResourceSection at header-offset B52h
Unicode text “Setup” found in ClearChassisIntrusion/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1348h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in 536C9BEB-049B-1234-A064-A6E72870FE66/…/UI section at header-offset 0Ah
Unicode text “Setup” found in UpdateErrorInfo/…/PE32 image section at header-offset E9Ch
Unicode text “Setup” found in DMBM/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1744h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in SwSmi534D3320/…/PE32 image section at header-offset F70h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in UpdateSerial_NUM/…/PE32 image section at header-offset E44h
Unicode text “Setup” found in SetupLoadDefaultDxe/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 668h
Unicode text “Setup” found in SetupLoadDefaultDxe/…/UI section at header-offset 04h
Unicode text “Setup” found in LNVRNR/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1858h
Unicode text “Setup” found in LNVRNR/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1A7Eh
Unicode text “Setup” found in LNVRNR/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1CD8h
Unicode text “Setup” found in CptSwSmi/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 18C0h
Unicode text “Setup” found in ComputraceBds/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1790h
Unicode text “Setup” found in UltraFunctionTable/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 153Ch
Unicode text “Setup” found in UltraFunctionSwSmi/…/PE32 image section at header-offset BE4h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in WMISwSmi/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 7A8Ch
Unicode text “Setup” found in WMISwSmi/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 7AE8h
Unicode text “Setup” found in WMISwSmi/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 7B8Ch
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Unicode text “Setup” found in WMISwSmi/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 7CA8h
Unicode text “Setup” found in WMISwSmi/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 7CE8h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in C3A8BCE3-EA66-4184-9D36-A27D3558033F/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 58E0h
Unicode text “Setup” found in FingerPrintSwSmi/…/PE32 image section at header-offset F70h
Unicode text “Setup” found in FingerPrintSwSmi/…/PE32 image section at header-offset F7Ch
Unicode text “Setup” found in 2ADDC097-5C4B-46C1-A404-CF62FBAED5F0/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 8A4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in 2ADDC097-5C4B-46C1-A404-CF62FBAED5F0/…/MiniSetupResourceSection at header-offset 8Fh
Unicode text “Setup” found in 7777375B-03AD-45E3-8B51-A23B59AE9772/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 1244h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in 45D56AF0-A58F-4006-A715-D2B0D28AB8A3/…/PE32 image section at header-offset D02h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in 3D3557EE-0A91-40E1-97A7-58D75195AC81/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 884h
Unicode text “Setup” found in 3D3557EE-0A91-40E1-97A7-58D75195AC81/…/UI section at header-offset 10h
Unicode text “Setup” found in DisableLTEB/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 644h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in 2861DEDD-471C-45CB-864A-E225CE5A2C95/…/UI section at header-offset 10h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in 17220A03-9CA4-480A-B1CE-8702116E0A35/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 11D94h
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Unicode text “Setup” found in CORE_PEI/PE32 image section at header-offset A430h
Unicode text “Setup” found in CORE_PEI/PE32 image section at header-offset A9E8h
Unicode text “Setup” found in CpuPolicyPei/PE32 image section at header-offset D30h
Unicode text “Setup” found in AmiTxtPei/PE32 image section at header-offset 2E4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in SbPei/PE32 image section at header-offset 4AE4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in SbPei/PE32 image section at header-offset 4B32h
Unicode text “Setup” found in 83104BA3-FDC2-4577-9C42-4147666A3F59/PE32 image section at header-offset EC4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in NbPei/PE32 image section at header-offset 36C4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in IsctWakeReason/PE32 image section at header-offset C98h
Unicode text “Setup” found in MePolicyInitPei/PE32 image section at header-offset 404h
Unicode text “Setup” found in AmtPolicyInitPei/PE32 image section at header-offset 524h
Unicode text “Setup” found in AmtPolicyInitPei/PE32 image section at header-offset 582h
Unicode text “Setup” found in TcgPlatformSetupPeiPolicy/PE32 image section at header-offset 4ECh
Unicode text “Setup” found in TcgPlatformSetupPeiPolicy/UI section at header-offset 1Ah
Unicode text “Setup” found in TcgPei/PE32 image section at header-offset 2544h
Unicode text “Setup” found in TcgPeiAftermem/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 16A4h
Unicode text “Setup” found in TcgPeiplatform/PE32 image section at header-offset 15F0h
Unicode text “Setup” found in AmiTcgPlatformPeiAfterMem/…/PE32 image section at header-offset 2854h
Unicode text “Setup” found in AmiTcgPlatformPeiBeforeMem/PE32 image section at header-offset 1A50h
Unicode text “Setup” found in 9961153D-EF53-4945-B58B-CC32489717F1/PE32 image section at header-offset FBCh
I extracted the module, downloaded the latest version of IFRextractor-RS and
ifrextractor.exe Section_Freeform_subtype_GUID_MiniSetupResourceSection_Setup_Setup_body.bin
gave me several text files. In the largest of them I found the following
Form FormId: 0x43C, Title: "Intel(R) Manageability"
Subtitle Prompt: "", Help: "", Flags: 0x0
End
SuppressIf
EqIdVal QuestionId: 0x102, Value: 0x1
OneOf Prompt: "ME Flash Descriptor Override", Help: "Enable:ME Flash Descriptor Override to pass all access permissions to update ME FW.Disable:Default.", QuestionFlags: 0x14, QuestionId: 0x43E, VarStoreId: 0x1, VarOffset: 0x90, Flags: 0x10, Size: 8, Min: 0x0, Max: 0x0, Step: 0x0
Default DefaultId: 0x0 Value: 0
OneOfOption Option: "Disable" Value: 0
OneOfOption Option: "Enable" Value: 1
End
End
If that is the culprit, 0x90 seems to be the desired address of the variable I have to set.
Then I used the EFI from Setup_EFI_Shell.rar and booted with that to a grub> prompt.
I then issued
setup_var 0x90 0x1
This gave:
var name: setup, var size: 12, var GUID: ec87d643-eba4-4bb5 - a1-e5-3f[...]
--> GUID does not match expected GUID, taking it nevertheless...
successfully obtained "Setup" variable from VSS (got 343 (0x157))
offset 0x90 is: 0x01
setting offset 0x90 to 0x01
I typed reboot as suggested in the guide but no change: I got error 280 in FPT again. I also failed to continue booting anything from the grub-prompt (I am no expert in that) to flash from either EFI or DOS without rebooting.
The message tells me (to my understanding) that at 0x90 there was already value 1 (therefore this would be no change) and maybe this is the wrong variable? Contrary to the IFR text file the variable size is also 12 and not 8, I don’t know what to make from that. Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything related to ME disable or flashing in other IFR text files though. I also found this thread but couldn’t figure how that could adapt to my situation.
I attach:
Original BIOS UEFI file
m93orig-fpt-bios.zip (7.3 MB)
CH341 reading of 8MB flash
8MBflash-CH341A-me-dis.zip (5.2 MB)
For completeness: magenta 1MB flash rom
magenta-1M.zip (58.1 KB)
Note: The files read off the chip via CH341A are not fully bit-identical. In the dump there are parts where hardware information about installed hard disks etc. are present.
Modded BIOS UEFI (although not relevant for the issue)
modbios-gop-cpumc-nvme.zip (7.2 MB)
Extracted Module
Section_Freeform_subtype_GUID_MiniSetupResourceSection_Setup_Setup_body.zip (52.2 KB)
IFR text files
IFR text files from module.zip (35.8 KB)
What I also tried: FPT executables from the 9.5 ME and the 10.0 ME work the same as the 9.1 one and they also show the same error number 280.
I think I am already really close. Any idea which variable I need to set? Was this the correct UEFI module I was looking at?
When my replacement SOIC8-clip arrives and we haven’t found another solution: Would I just split the 12 MB dump and write the first 8MB to the first chip and the remaining 4 MB to the second chip? FPT lists the chips in this order.
