…until the next time I tinker with things and break something else So, I hereby solemnly swear to never touch any of these things again… I have no idea whatsoever how I managed this but this is a beautiful sight to behold: I played around a little bit with booting into EFI Shell and running some of the files from the same BIOS package, one of them just gave the same error message as above and then it continued with flashing the BIOS.Īfter rebooting I checked the FD and it was still unlocked so I rebooted into Windows and I was about to ask for help again but decided to run the above command once more, and lo and behold, it actually flashed. I then remembered a tool I used a long time ago to open the hidden options of the BIOS so I could search for a way to unlock it, and I did actually find it the option, however I didn’t quite understand the order to do this, since enabling it, and then choosing save and exit it would just reboot and the thing was disabled again. So, I was assuming that my FD indeed is locked, or something was seriously broken. I tried running that and it clearly gave me an error message saying that host system did not have access to the FD, which was kind of demoralizing since the full dump worked earlier. I was scouring the contents of a BIOS package for my specific laptop, and I saw that in one of the files they used the following to flash the ME. OK, so I’ve got the cleaned and configured outimage.bin, and now I’m stuck for real this time.

I found how I should proceed like a couple of seconds after I wrote this out. Step 7, under section D4 seems a bit confusing and contradictory.Ĭould you/someone else please be a guiding light again on how to proceed from here? bin into FIT, and… not quite sure where to move on from here. I’ve extracted the same version CSME firmware from the repository pack and renamed it accordingly (ME Sub Partition.bin). bin and verified that File System State is reported as Initialized. Mind you, I have no idea what I am doing at this point.Īnd this is where I am right now, at the section labelled ‘D4. So I reverted back to this guide here: Clean Dumped Intel Engine (CS)ME/(CS)TXE Regions with Data Initialization, to proceed with the cleaning of the DATA section of the dumped.

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