Unable to update HP 23-q102a. Intel ME in Manufacturing Mode

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Well, the solution seems to be described in the thread you mentioned?

Dump the firmware of your machine using a programmer or Intel tools corresponding to your ME version

Use this guide to clean the ME-firmware:

[Guide] Clean Dumped Intel Engine (CS)ME/(CS)TXE Regions with Data Initialization

Guide-How To: Clean Dumped Intel Engine (CS)ME/(CS)TXE Regions with Data Initialization Last Updated: 2020-07-22 This guide is relevant to those who need to clean the DATA section of an Engine (CSME, ME, CSTXE, TXE) Region, which is part of a dumped SPI/BIOS image, in order to flash the latter on a different machine of the same OEM model. It is not meant as a guide on how to completely transform a dumped Engine region into a stock Intel-provided one. Although the guide can be used for that some…

Flash the ‘cleaned’/ newly built ME region back to your machine.

If you like you might run MEInfo from a DOS USB stick (Windows version probably won’t work) first.