Two possible solutions:
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Choose the correct SKU
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Extract the ME from the bios which is seems to be available here: LG R590-U.ARCCE1 Product Support :Manuals, Warranty & More | LG U.A.E
FITC v6.0.40.1212 can be used at all systems with ME 6 SKUs: 1.5MB, 5MB DT, 5MB MB, Ignition IBX.
How do you think FITC decides which way to program/handle the ME?
I did not understand your question
I used Intel ME System Tools v6 IBX r2 which contains Flash Image Tool 6.0.40.1212
FITc v6.0.40.1212 can be used at all systems with ME 6 SKUs: 1.5MB, 5MB DT, 5MB MB and Ignition IBX.
Now FITc complains about wrong settings. It recognizes an IBX firmware but seems to have conflicting information which aren’t compatible with an Ignition IBX firmware in its settings.
Which settings in FITc should possibly be corrected to make it work?
(Choose the correct chipset and FIT will work as expected!)
Looks like the bios dump is not from this notebook… I downloaded bios update from LG and made the bios dump. Now I got it!!!
Thanks
Contains 2 different bios, smaller one is2 MB PM55 IBX, larger one is 4 MB and HM55 1.5MB.
hi to everyone i try to unlock a region me from this binary files its from a net-tablet ECS (elitegroup).
binary files WQ16FWUUIQ
i upload a screenshot from ME ANALYZER
***And if you could detail me the step by step. please
the software AMIBCP wont open this binary file.
Hi plutomaniac
I clean Meregion ver 16 but Modular Flash Images Tool error
Exception: OEMP was signed with a wrong MEU tool.
Used MEU: 15.0
Expected MEU: 16.0
Please re-sign it with MEU that match the FIT project.
Source: ‘CsePlugin:OEM_KM’
in spite of build setting Manifest Extension Utility path with meu.exe(ver 16)
So how do i fix this. Please help me. Tks.
helppp…
i cannot detect any hdd after clearME
Any suggest for hdd section on bios file
based on thinkpad x260
thanx
Maybe too much cleaning… did you used any acid based solution, oh man it could really happen… a lot of hdds has been lost like this !!!
It’s been a long time since I’ve done this. I’m in the process of trying to remember how to unlock AMT on systems that were shipped from Dell with ME Disabled. I think I’ll have to re-look over the steps I did with the Optiplex 7010 because I seem to be missing something on these Optiplex 7440 machines as I still don’t have it unlocked.
But this is neither here nor there. While I can flash the full BIOS SPI file on this machine that I’m pulling it off of, I won’t be able to flash it to the other machines so I’m in the “making a clean BIOS” phase and I seem to be stumbling.
I downloaded the correct “ME Region.bin” file and replaced the one in the build folder. But when checking the resulting outimage.bin file in ME Analyzer, it is still showing Type Extracted instead of Region, Extracted. The file system state is Configured instead of Initialized, so that’s good, but I thought the Type should have changed when cleaning as well? Or is the only important thing is the file system state? I’ve attached an image showing the extracted BIOS and the outimage.bin that I built for reference.
I think the output of MEA did change a little since the guide was written. I’d be happy with ‘configured’ and the rest of data being OK.
What settings did you change? If I remember it right it wasn’t too much for ME 11?
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I was pretty sure “Configured” was the important part, but I made the mistake in the past of flashing a full BIOS to multiple machines, wiping out the serial numbers and MAC addresses before so I’m a bit nervous of testing. I’ll probably pull a full BIOS from another machine before testing just in case.
The AMT settings are a bit off topic for this thread, but I set all of that except the Idle Timeout. Unlike the 7010s we got before, none of these 7440s came with AMT enabled. (We’re a school district, so we opt to save a bit of money and buy preowned machines. We save money and they still do everything we need, we just don’t get to pick the ME setup from the factory.) So I didn’t have a working system to compare the settings to, so thank you for that. I’ll change the timeout and see if that gives me the option to boot into AMT. (This will hopefully save me some digging through my old posts and/or creating a new thread to figure this out.)
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Turns out, I probably already had it. I just had to remove the jumper from the service mode pins before it would show up. Don’t remember that being an issue before.
Machine specific data are in bios region, so if you want to flash a full firmware it has to be made for every single computer. A cleaned, freshly reconfigured ME region doesn’t have machine specific data (but of course machine- type specific data).
If your machines have a service jumper, then it shouldn’t be a problem to flash the ME region only with fpt and the -ME switch.
And yes, the service jumper does disable ME functionality, so no AMT with jumper set, too.
Yeap, the output has changed since those (archaic 
) pictures. The output should be “Extracted” and File System State “Configured”. So all good, output wise.
For fun, I went back to figure out when those pictures are from. The vast majority are from January 2016 and one from October 2018. So… 
Hi, looking on how to restore an old baytrail tablet that just turn off every 30 min. so I ended up following this guide. I dumped the bin TXE v1 from chip with an external programmer. Followed all the required steps to get a new image build and seems that all worked, but at the xml comparison step noticed something and I dont know if this should happen: the region order is it supposed to change when rebuild the binary?
can I just proceed to reflash this new image to the eeprom?
all the otther differences on the xml are the ones expected from changing the IAT options to be disabled…so is just this order thing what makes me doubt.
Can Anyone confirm that this is not relevant ?
It shouldn’t matter for CSTXE because the SPI flash uses the Intel IFWI 2.0 structure, in which the Flash Descriptor (FD) region is first and is followed by the IAFW/BIOS region. The latter includes both the BIOS/UEFI and CSTXE firmware in one region. Once the CSTXE initializes for the first time (1st boot), the initially empty Device Expansion (DevExp) region of the SPI flash will be populated with the former’s working data.
The top-level of IFWI 2.0 structure should be FD + IAFW + DevExp regions. Check that with UEFITool NE and go ahead and flash. You do have a programmer, so you can always re-adjust. Although I suspect that XML field of FIT is useless for CSTXE.
Ok ive done that. Unfortunately I don’t know what exactly should I look for. What IFWI and IAFW does mean? The uefitool shows some messages on one of the BIOS sections, and also some invalid partitions on the fpt table, but MEAnalizer shows the same as valid. My guess is that those are the DevExt that you refer on your previous reply, but I don’t know for sure.
Also I want to ask if FD unlocking is possible/valid from building process, since ive set permissions to 0xff from the FIT instead of HxD. Attached some images from Uefitool ne.
These UEFITool pictures are not showing an IFWI 2.0 SPI flash layout, and the partitions shown via MEA -dfpt are older than the CSE-era ones. So you’re not actually working on a CSTXE (v3 - v4) firmware, probably TXE (v1 - v2). CSE TXE (CSTXE) is not the same as the old TXE. Different instructions apply there.