Nightmare with Intel me 0.0.0.0

[themagic]

I just had the worst fucking idiot problem with Intel me 0.0.0.0 in Bios and on my Asus motherboard and could not install it in Windows (uncompatible platform error) and was not able to enable TMP 2.0 cause of that Issue in the Bios...

Just want share this short solution and which was rly simple at the end and maybe someone gonna find it useful or helpful...

https://oldrigrevive.com/software/intel-fpt/

So if there a Option in Bios where you can temporarily disable Intel me (you are lucky guy) and you can use intel fpt utility in that link but i dont rly understand at first how this all works but at the end it was very simple and just by follow the instructions.


1.download newest bios from your motherboard and if it is in CAP format...
2.download UEFItool https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases
3.put your bios in same folder as UEFITool and convert with that tool your cap just to bin


after it is just simple and follow the instructions on that first link...

Download the most commonly used FPT versions (v7-v16)

find the correct one and after put your BIOS.bin in same folder WIN64 and run the commands to flash...

# Check SPI status
fptw64 -i

# Standard flashing
fptw64 -f new_firmware.bin



Thats it lol...Now Intel me working again for me and shows version in Bios and i can finally enable TPM2.0...


But i wasted some Hours to figure out this all and my mistake was that i just dont convert the bios which is CAP into BIN.ROM...

Fuck this complicated World

[Slender]

how to decrease me on Z390 asus?

[themagic]

how to decrease me on Z390 asus?

downgrade ? idk but looks like that not possible or hard to do...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MSI_Gaming/com ... 161322473/

here but only if completely roll back bios...


or maybe you can try fpt utility but dont know if that will work...so on your own risk only.

if you scroll down on that first link i posted then you can find this and where you can extract ME Region (from older bios version? and if one exist?) and just flash ME only...Idk dont know if that rly will work and what you need ?...

Advanced Usage
Region Extraction
# BIOS region
fptw64 -d bios_backup.bin -bios

# ME region
fptw64 -d me_backup.bin -me

# GbE region
fptw64 -d gbe_backup.bin -gbe

Region Flashing
# BIOS only
fptw64 -f bios_only.bin -bios

# ME only
fptw64 -f me_region.bin -me

# GbE only
fptw64 -f gbe_region.bin -gbe

[magicv4]

I tried flashing the BIOS using FPT but to no avail. Using UEFITool, I used the extract body option to get the .rom file which I renamed to .bin getting a BIOS.bin file. Using the command fptw64 -f BIOS.bin, I ran into this:

Error 167: Protected Range Registers are currently set by BIOS, preventing flash access.
Please contact the target system BIOS vendor for an option to disable
Protected Range Registers.

FPT Operation Failed.

Did you do something to the BIOS file beforehand that wasn't mentioned in the file or did I do something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[r00t]

Only way to downgrade is to use external programmer or possibly USB flashback function if your MB have it (flashing bios without booting PC). When ME is running it will simply not allow it.

[magicv4]

Only way to downgrade is to use external programmer or possibly USB flashback function if your MB have it (flashing bios without booting PC). When ME is running it will simply not allow it.

FPT does exist and that's the purpose it serves. Of course, this doesn't exactly apply to my ASUS motherboard since it's locked but there's a few ways to get around this. I'm more interested in what OP has to say in regards to this and get a more detailed version of the steps.