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corna / me_cleaner

Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images
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Not working on Dell Inspiron 5570 #293

Open ghitab666 opened 5 years ago

ghitab666 commented 5 years ago

Hello

unfortunately I didn't succeed on my laptop Dell Inspiron 5570, cpu i5-8250u (the same cpu works on others laptop without intel ME).

In the eeprom I read that the code starts with AH1819 and I can't find any information about that in the web. Flashrom detect a Gigabyte eeprom and suggests me to use the option '-c "GD25B128B/GD25Q128B"' or the option '-c "GD25Q128C"'.

I made the first backup with the option '-c "GD25B128B/GD25Q128B"' and if I restore It, after a few tries, the pc works correctly,

If I try to write a me-cleaned image, with every possible me_cleaner option, the pc doesn't boot. I see a led on, then the fan turns on and nothing more happens.

I tried to remove the batteries, the hard disk, the ram, and pressing the power button in order to reset the BIOS, but in every case the laptop doesn't boot.

I assume that me_cleaner doesn't works on this board.

Thank you

Cheers image.tar.gz

czeej commented 4 years ago

I've seen dell implementations with Two ME regions. They were both in the same EEPROM, with two partitions. came up as same chip numbers just with a different ending. The EEPROM had double the memory it usually needs. If there is a check going on, you may have to see if you can find a second image on the board and flash both to be matching.

Good luck if you try again.