FAIL: MSI X299 RAIDER - no POST, black screen, no boot

[peter137]

CPU Architecture: Skylake-X CPU model: i7 7820X Laptop/motherboard: MSI X299 RAIDER OEM BIOS or coreboot?: OEM 7A94v16 If you used the -s/-S flag in me_cleaner: no, command was: me_cleaner.py -O modified_firmware.bin original_firmware.bin (no such option exists)

After updating BIOS Flash with modified frimware the $SUBJ happened, system was unusable. Backup BIOS brought back life, but would still love to remove the ME code entirely.

During error state MB Debug LEDs: Red, white (CPU, DRAM) light up.

Pre-flight test: intelmetool -m Could not get RCBA address Error reading RCBA

Validity check: me_cleaner.py -c ~/BIOS/7A94v16/E7A94IMS.160 Full image detected The ME/TXE region goes from 0x3000 to 0x300000 Found FPT header at 0x3010 Found 11 partition(s) Found FTPR header: FTPR partition spans from 0x4000 to 0xab000 Found FTPR manifest at 0x4448 ME/TXE firmware version 11.10.0.1287 Checking the FTPR RSA signature... VALID

Cleaning log: me_cleaner.py -O ~/BIOS/7A94v16/E7A94IMS.160-mod ~/BIOS/7A94v16/E7A94IMS.160 Full image detected The ME/TXE region goes from 0x3000 to 0x300000 Found FPT header at 0x3010 Found 11 partition(s) Found FTPR header: FTPR partition spans from 0x4000 to 0xab000 Found FTPR manifest at 0x4448 ME/TXE firmware version 11.10.0.1287 Removing extra partitions... Removing extra partition entries in FPT... Removing EFFS presence flag... Correcting checksum (0x84)... Reading FTPR modules list... FTPR.man (uncompressed, 0x004448 - 0x005018): NOT removed, partition manif. rbe.met (uncompressed, 0x005018 - 0x0050ae): NOT removed, module metadata kernel.met (uncompressed, 0x0050ae - 0x00513c): NOT removed, module metadata syslib.met (uncompressed, 0x00513c - 0x0051a0): NOT removed, module metadata bup.met (uncompressed, 0x0051a0 - 0x00574a): NOT removed, module metadata pm.met (uncompressed, 0x00574a - 0x0057f8): NOT removed, module metadata vfs.met (uncompressed, 0x0057f8 - 0x006158): NOT removed, module metadata evtdisp.met (uncompressed, 0x006158 - 0x0062e6): NOT removed, module metadata loadmgr.met (uncompressed, 0x0062e6 - 0x00640e): NOT removed, module metadata busdrv.met (uncompressed, 0x00640e - 0x0067b4): NOT removed, module metadata gpio.met (uncompressed, 0x0067b4 - 0x0068fe): NOT removed, module metadata prtc.met (uncompressed, 0x0068fe - 0x006aae): NOT removed, module metadata policy.met (uncompressed, 0x006aae - 0x006c72): NOT removed, module metadata crypto.met (uncompressed, 0x006c72 - 0x006dfc): NOT removed, module metadata heci.met (uncompressed, 0x006dfc - 0x006fc8): NOT removed, module metadata storage.met (uncompressed, 0x006fc8 - 0x0072c4): NOT removed, module metadata pmdrv.met (uncompressed, 0x0072c4 - 0x0073e8): NOT removed, module metadata maestro.met (uncompressed, 0x0073e8 - 0x0074d2): NOT removed, module metadata fpf.met (uncompressed, 0x0074d2 - 0x0075de): NOT removed, module metadata hci.met (uncompressed, 0x0075de - 0x0076e0): NOT removed, module metadata fwupdate.met (uncompressed, 0x0076e0 - 0x0077ea): NOT removed, module metadata ptt.met (uncompressed, 0x0077ea - 0x0078f6): NOT removed, module metadata touch_fw.met (uncompressed, 0x0078f6 - 0x007a40): NOT removed, module metadata rbe (Huffman , 0x007a40 - 0x00a100): NOT removed, essential kernel (Huffman , 0x00a100 - 0x019d40): NOT removed, essential syslib (Huffman , 0x019d40 - 0x02bc00): NOT removed, essential bup (Huffman , 0x02bc00 - 0x054880): NOT removed, essential pm (LZMA/uncomp., 0x054880 - 0x056e80): removed vfs (LZMA/uncomp., 0x056e80 - 0x05ec00): removed evtdisp (LZMA/uncomp., 0x05ec00 - 0x060600): removed loadmgr (LZMA/uncomp., 0x060600 - 0x063380): removed busdrv (LZMA/uncomp., 0x063380 - 0x064c40): removed gpio (LZMA/uncomp., 0x064c40 - 0x065ec0): removed prtc (LZMA/uncomp., 0x065ec0 - 0x066a80): removed policy (LZMA/uncomp., 0x066a80 - 0x06b580): removed crypto (LZMA/uncomp., 0x06b580 - 0x079140): removed heci (LZMA/uncomp., 0x079140 - 0x07d040): removed storage (LZMA/uncomp., 0x07d040 - 0x081640): removed pmdrv (LZMA/uncomp., 0x081640 - 0x0827c0): removed maestro (LZMA/uncomp., 0x0827c0 - 0x084580): removed fpf (LZMA/uncomp., 0x084580 - 0x085e00): removed hci (LZMA/uncomp., 0x085e00 - 0x0866c0): removed fwupdate (LZMA/uncomp., 0x0866c0 - 0x08b200): removed ptt (LZMA/uncomp., 0x08b200 - 0x0a0380): removed touch_fw (LZMA/uncomp., 0x0a0380 - 0x0ab000): removed The ME minimum size should be 352256 bytes (0x56000 bytes) The ME region can be reduced up to: 00003000:00058fff me Checking the FTPR RSA signature... VALID Done! Good luck!

[NoahtheLurker]

Did you consider trying any other method?

[peter137]

Like SPI flashing? flasher toolkit is on its way, in a few weeks i'll try that too. Meanwhile any suggestions to try?

[NoahtheLurker]

I would be pleased to see the results with the USB programmer and externally flashed BIOS.

[peter137]

Ok, but lets make it clear, that the OEM flasher reported no errors.

[corna]

You should try with the -s flag and, if it works, with -S.