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Author Topic: [Z77 MPOWER] ME firmware bricked after updating BIOS via M-Flash  (Read 1014 times)

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pjakuszew

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Hi,

I have a problem with Z77 MPower. After using M-Flash to update BIOS on chip A, it gets stuck in boot loop - spins fans for a one second, then turns off, then again - I already tried switching to BIOS B and trying flashing the BIOS A from there, tried your USB flasher, played with fpt tool and erasing the whole chip - without any success. I was able to track down that all of this is probably caused by corrupted ME firmware, Intel's MEInfo tool is not able to communicate with firmware, while everything works fine on BIOS B. Any ideas on how can I fix that firmware?
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Try the recovery method discussed here;

http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=160450.0
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Just tried this. No success. I've already tried doing this with forum flasher, from DOS using AFUDOS, from EFI using AFUEFI, no luck...
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OK, I got it fixed. Just make a bootable DOS USB flash disk, place the Intel Flash Programming Utility on it, and then do following:

1) While still running on working BIOS, run fpt -d biosb.bin
2) THIS IS IMPORTANT: After it finishes, switch to nonworking BIOS
3) Run fpt -rewrite -f biosb.bin

This will copy the contents of second BIOS chip onto the corrupted one, making a 1:1 copy of it. After that, everything will work fine ;)

Cheers!
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Intel Core i7-3770 @3.40GHz
Kingston DDR3 1600MHz 8GB RAM
Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7950
Corsair VS650
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