Open ReaperX opened 5 years ago
Flashed internally
Found your problem. I bricked my Rampage motherboard trying to flash internally using FPT, and Asus USB BIOS flashback does not touch the ME_region from my experience. You are better off buying an SPI flasher for a few bucks to flash it.
If you use an SPI flasher, it should most likely work.
OEM site: https://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/h77m/
Ran me_cleaner on the latest (1.70) firmware with the -S option:
Flashed internally. The flash process (looked like it) succeed. At the reboot msg, I turned the machine off, removed the battery, waited, put the battery back in, powered up. UEFI works normally, except that it no longer remembered the contents of the EFI partition, so I booted from a USB stick and searched for EFI bootladers. My Manjaro Linux system booted normally from there.
Unfortunately, intelmetool indicates that ME is still active: ME: Firmware Init Complete : YES ME: Progress Phase: Host Communication ME: Progress Phase State: Host communication established
I repeated the experiment with the -s switch, and then no flag, and I also tried with the previous bios version 1.6. Same outcome. :(