[Recover] ASUS ROG Strix Z490-E Gaming (others) BIOS/ME

have to manually update MEupdate by doing
FWUpdLcl64.exe -F ME.bin??

OK, if there’s no such firmware folder. The inf- file is a standard placeholder for system firmware (amd64 is the platform name)

Driver either from Asus:

or that one:

Yes, that would be the syntax and the Asus updater is actually doing exactly that. But it’s FWUpdLcl64 that needs the driver anyway! And you’d have to run the command in a cmd windows as administrator.

why do I always end up with the same version of ME even after the update?


I have a small cms resistor located in front of the 8b chip which is unsoldered because of my ch431A clamp, maybe that’s the problem?
I will have to reposition it but it is terribly small.

Did you reboot?
If it’s still the same version after a reboot run the FWUpdLcl64.exe -F ME.bin command in an admin cmd window and take a picture of the output.

yes still the same version after reboot, I will try by manual command in administrator mode

it’s serious?it’s serious?
Does that mean I can’t update?

Well, there could be an error in the rebuilt ME or it’s a surrogate message since the removed resistor has to do with the flashing.

Please run the MEInfo and MEManuf commands on the old version and post the results.

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Ok, I’ll do that tonight and let you know.

thank you anyway for what you do.
it is by dint of perception that we arrive at what we want.

sorry but I can’t find Meinfo and MeManuf.
Where are they?

??

I have version 14.0.11

14.1.51.1528

yes it is indeed the version which was registered in me analyzer when I extracted the 8mb chip at the very beginning.
I then used CSME system tool 14.0.11 to rebuild the file with CSME 14.1 repository r9 (14.1.51.1528_con_H_A_PDR_EXTR.bin)

But I never used CSME system tool 14.0.20.

I also don’t have MEInfo and MEManuf .

Where can I find them.

do you have a link?

How often shall I post this?

the problem being that I can’t find the download page on the INTEL site concerning csme tools…

What’s in the way to simply use the link- first post a little down leads to a mega.nz storage?

sorry but i didn’t think the download was in it


Not good. might have happened when bios- region wasn’t properly flashed and booting stopped or ME region in the 8 MB image wasn’t properly prepared becaus of manually inserting PHY.

Please try to dump the firmware, either by
\Intel CSME System Tools v14.0.20+ r20\Flash Programming Tool\WIN64\FPTW64.exe -d spi.bin

or (if this gives you an error) by dumping the different regions:

FPTW64.exe -bios -d biosregion.bin
FPTW64.exe -ME -d MEregion.bin
FPTW64.exe -DESC -d FD.bin

Please attach the results!