i removed the efi partition and got the 10mb file. after flashing is done, this time the device doesn’t even start up, only the power light is blinking.
I don’t know where this part is. i searched by text in bios file but it is not there. can you guide me. sorry for bothering you so much
According to picture you start firmware with bios region???
The fan will start up for about 5 seconds and then turn off. the screen light and screen are not turned on at all. there will be about 5 minutes for the keyboard light to come on then it will restart by itself. If let that happen continuously, the cpu will get very hot
Hey buddy what do you think you’re programming with a 10Mb on the SPI, you need to merge the rest of the regions to get an full programmable file, according lbf6 notes on cutting that last EFI volume, this will be the bios region only to merge, use UEFI tool.
Clean the ME region and merge it or clean the merged file (See notes of the ME repair/cleaning to see witch way on your ME version) and this is what you use on it, a 16Mb file on the CH341A.
lfb6 correct me if need plz.
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As written it seems that you either put together the different regions in a wrong way or just flashed the 10 MB bios region alone. At least there in the programmer windows flashing content starts with NVRAM (first part of bios region) which is completely wrong. Use UEFIToolNE for structure and UEFITool or hex edit for changing complete regions.
FIT is part of the Intel ME tools, used for configuring ME options. It’s used for cleaning/re-initializing the ME region:
I’m away from home now for some weeks, so possibility to answer is limited.
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Thank you guys, I will research them and reply to you as soon as possible. For me these are quite complicated so it will probably take a bit of time. 
It’s always possible to post an image before one tries to flash. That costs a lot less time than discussing afterwards.
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W10 probably was Encrypted with Bitlocker,
the Keys are in the Cloud of MS.
you dont own Nothing.
probably also has Optane,
disable Optane, most laptops have a secret menu in the bios/uefi.
the only way to format / erase install over encrypted NVMe+Optane.
without Optane f6 drivers.
W11 was strange, i deleted W11, and installed Linux.
Windows is better in a VirtualMachine that has 3D Acceleration for games.
but problem is the OEM keys stored in the UEFI,
there is a software to read the Keys, but… some VM Machines require Pro or True Home version, Not OEM.
OEM Keys when activated are locked to Hardware.
Pro allows to change Hardware and Reactivate.
Home Not.
WTG “Windows To Go” requites Enterprise.
If you made a System Image Backup of W10 you can restore Encrypted with Windows USB Recovery drive or installer iso.
if you didnt, and its encrypted… call Bill. LOL.™
cleanCSME with highest ver.rar (5.6 MB)
csme12.0.65.1567.rar (5.5 MB)
i tried cleaning and replacing with FIT with different csme versions but everything still can’t work.
it seems that cleaning/re-initializing the ME partition has not been very effective so far.
by the way can you tell me how to turn off Measured Boot and Verified Boot.
I found the phrase about them here but don’t know how to turn it off
Update MEA to latest version, yours is from 01/21!
Your links don’t work.
Which machine?
Why did you want to clean the ME region / what does “but everything still can’t work.” mean??
Post the complete output of MEInfo* (in a spoiler)
Why did you want to clean the ME region / what does “but everything still can’t work.” mean??
As written it seems that you either put together the different regions in a wrong way or just flashed the 10 MB bios region alone. At least there in the programmer windows flashing content starts with NVRAM (first part of bios region) which is completely wrong. Use UEFIToolNE for structure and UEFITool or hex edit for changing complete regions.
I just want the computer to run again. sorry i am not professional in this. My editing or cleaning is quite messy, but so far, flashing the bios for the computer to work has not worked.
I edited the link above.
Post the complete output of MEInfo* (in a spoiler)
cleanCSME with highest ver.bin.rar (718 Bytes)
is it this file?
Sorry, didn’t recognize that you were the threadstarter, long time no activity and another poster in between…
Latest MEA wont give any errors:
Measured boot and verified boot is the Boot Guard Profile setting in FIT, but this setting is fused into the PCH and can’t be changed after manufacturing mode is closed.
Forget about MEInfo, it requires a booted system, result would’ve been relevant for the question regarding measured / verified boot.
The structure of the images look good, but there’s corruption in one NVRAM store with an incomplete setup variable as last entry. That might be one reason.
Where did you get the firmware from?
Try first:
csme12.0.65.1567_NV12.bin.zip (6.8 MB)
If that doesn’t work you may try:
intel_BG0.zip (6.1 MB)
But I am not very optimistic, Intel NUC is quite a pain if firmware once get corrupted.
Thank you so much for your help and listening all this time. It’s really precious.
I downloaded the ME Analyzer update! the latest but they don’t seem to work on the machine so I edit this bios file. adding the dll doesn’t cause it to launch either. Windows 7 is overwhelmed with new things. when I switched to windows 11 I was able to read them without any errors. Thanks again for the advice.
Where did you get the firmware from?
I got it from user yezishu here:
this is the only option I can find on the internet so far
Try first:
csme12.0.65.1567_NV12.bin.zip (6.8 MB)If that doesn’t work you may try:
intel_BG0.zip (6.1 MB)But I am not very optimistic, Intel NUC is quite a pain if firmware once get corrupted.
I have tried both files but the symptoms are still the same. I don’t know if the information in this photo of the device can change that:
This file is different from the file in the other thread you linked but you used it for all your tries. Seems to come from the same machine, but do you remember where you did find this file?
You might try the original file from the linked thread, but I don’t think this will work either.
QC7 0114 dumped bios ch341.zip (7.1 MB)
Unfortunately bios 114 isn’t available any longer, so it’s not possible to check what the correct 114 binary is. But anyway- since a clean stock bios doesn’t work this bios won’t work either.
Would’ve been good to have a complete backup of your original backup, but anyway.
I’m sorry,out of ideas!
all i had on hand after the device was bricked was this file
it completely lacks the bios region part, so I cut the bios region part from the bios file that user yezishu uploaded in the article above to merge it into the testcompare01 file
Still unclear, couldn’t have worked this way as the part you could “save” was ønly 2 MB and flash descriptor and me-region are already 6 MB, bios region 10 MB.
So in this case nothing else can be done ? When the computer is bricked, is it so difficult to restore it 