I managed to follow the steps for CSME 11 (section D4) all the way to Step 14. Unfortunately even though I have read access to the FD, I don’t have write access at all. I have my cleaned image ready to flash and everything. My HP EliteDesk G3 800 SFF’s motherboard has an FDO jumper pin that I can utilize, but when I attempt to boot the machine with those pins shorted, all it did was power on the system for like maybe 10 seconds, then it just suddenly powers back off (the BIOS logo never shows in that time).
I’ve also tried treating the jumper pins like the pinmod method - power on with the pins shorted, then removing the jumper after it powers up. Unfortunately that didn’t do anything either.
Does anyone know how the FDO pins on these boards are supposed to be used?
The user was able to run MEInfo on a firmware with a cleaned ME and and his own still working firmware.
The firmware with the cleaned ME had an identical bios region and identical flash descriptor, so settings in FD and bios region (NVRAM) can’t be relevant here. Still the cleaned ME didn’t have touch and the output of MEInfo was different:
I searched here, closest was this thread, but these are FD bits as far as I could find out and FD is unchanged.
I unpacked ME regions of the working (old118.bin) and cleaned (031024e.bin) firmware (MEA -unp86) but couldn’t find any hint where this settings could be stored in MFS.
Tried several FIT versions down to 11.0.0.1202 - the version the Surface firmware originally was composed with. But these settings aren’t covered by FIT and accordingly don’t show in the xml- files.
Read the bringup- guides as far as available, but there’s only information on Flash Descriptor Records.
@lfb6 It has been a couple of years since I dealt with ME, and I’m already forgetting, but I think this kind of thing can be changed via Flash Programming Tool, by modifying NVAR configuration (-cfggen etc). Check the FPT NVAR chapter of the System Tools User Guide.
I also found this, when searching the forum, in case it helps (no idea if these apply to CSME 11, but the year might indicate that it does):
OK, Thank you, I’ll have a look into the fpt commands!
Tried already, but don’t have a ME 11 machine at hand, unfortunately. ME 14 already has a FIT section for precise touch, so there wasn’t anything to find there.
Edit:
Of course youwere right! I could read the variable for ME 14, too:
I already tried building the image but the laptop still has black screen. I am wondering if the image that I build is faulty or not correct as I am still very new to all this. I am linking both my dump and the image which I built together. I am hoping someone can look into my files and confirm it to be correct me region cleaned file. Thanks
