I have flashed the bios dump but the laptop turns on with a black screen. The bios chip of this laptop has already been flashed by someone else. The laptop works randomly, so I am assuming that it is a problem with the bios. But, I noticed that MEA shows an error message:
Error: Firmware is incomplete/corrupted, expected 0x600000 not 0x400000!
Warning: Firmware size exceeds Engine/Graphics region, possible data loss!
Note: Adjusted buffer to Flash Descriptor 0x0 - 0x600000!
I downloaded several bios dumps from the internet, exactly 5 bios dumps, but MEA displays the same error message in all of them. Are all the bios dumps I downloaded corrupted? I donāt quite understand what this MEA error message means. So, I donāt know exactly what to doā¦
The one 4 MB chip isnāt a working bios, MEA expects the sum og buth chips!! And you may flash the 4 MB chip as often as you want- if the 2 MB chip isnāt flashed with the proper image- part the machine will not boot!
FIT expects a full firmware image to work (or in older versions the ME region alone can be used).
MEA compares firmware size given in FD with real firmware size and complains, but it works fine.
Both donāt care what it is in the bios region- you could givr the an image with a bios region filled with just FFs and they wouldnāt complain - but your machine wouldnāt boot, of course.
EDIT
REgarding the 2 MB chip: FIT works with what you give to it, bios region (which the 2 MB most probably contains part of) is copied unchanged when FIT builds an outimage- thereās no check if this is a valid regionā¦
So it might simply be a misplaced soic clip that gave you just FFs for the second chip.
What machine are we talking about and please post the dump of the first 4 MB chip
I have tried to clean a (CS) ME Region of a dumped file, however during the process of building image the following error was showed up in FIT environment:
Error 197: [Fit Actions] Invalid settings combination. If āEOM on First Boot Enabledā is set to: āYesā, Then "Boot Guard Profile Configuration " cannot be set to: āBoot Guard Profile 3 - VMā
What is the best way to solve this error: Change the EOM parameter to NO or change Boot Guard Profile to another value, for instance: 4-FVE?
Why was it possible for LBE to clean (CS)ME Region of same file keeping EOM as YES and Boot Guard Profile as 3-VM, considering that they are invalid settings combinations?
Hello.
Iām wondering if you guys could help me (and many others, each one with itās own) with my old laptop Dell, model Inspiron 5557.
Since itās BIOS was updated via Windows Update (from 1.6 to 1.9) after a replace SSD and OS reinstall, an annoying screen with āā¦invalid configuration blablablaā¦ā appears everytime that we turn it on! Trying to downgrade to 1.6 again was successful, but Intel ME with final error 2236. Installed Intel MEI version still same as 1.9 BIOS: 11.8.77.3664, when 1.6 is 11.8.60.3561. I believe thatās related to dirty MEI Region. If I was correct, can you help us? Sorry for my bad english, and thank you for nowā¦
It would be nice to get a ārealā translation, preferable a human reading of that āBLABLAā of yoursā¦ and maybe we get a āpictureā of what is the SSD related to the Intel ME FW of a system.
Bios updates only upgrade the Intel ME FW when theyāre required to (system has lower/old version) than the payload package and ME FW is never downgraded by normal flash methods.