How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

[Ghostearth]

Hi,

I need some help to upgrade the management engine interface firmware from v7 to v8, i ever try the flashbat with no success, how i get ride of that?

I'm running Windows 7 x64 SP1. I7 3930K

Thanks For the Help.

Ghostearth.

[stasio]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Me 8.x is not for X79 chipset.

Edit:
Some 7.x you can found HERE.

[Ghostearth]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Me 8.x is not for X79 chipset.

Edit:
Some 7.x you can found HERE.

Thanks stasio for your prompt reply.

Ghostearth.

[zerowing]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Me 8.x is not for X79 chipset.

Edit:
Some 7.x you can found HERE.

Sorry but that is not correct.

The official beta BIOS F3p and F3t for X79-UP4 upgrade the ME Firmware to version 8.x

[stasio]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Ok,seems I have been away from X79 long time.......

I found some methods explain here:
Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4. No New X79 Chipset And Management Engine Interface Drivers ?

and
ASUS P9X79 motherboard owners, where are you at?
Intel MEI & ME Version 8.1.10.1300 & 8.1.10.1286 (driver and FW)

[ZzBloopzZ]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Here are is the simplest method to update to latest version of MEI on your X79 variant Gigabyte motherboard:

1. Update BIOS to the latest Beta BIOS, or the latest modified BIOS (I personally always use the latest modified BIOS by stasio)
2. Download and install the latest MEI driversHERE.
4. Extract the firmware into a new folder, let's call this folder A.
5. Open command prompt as Administrator.
6. Navigate to folder A > Local-Win64 in command prompt.
7. Run flash.bat
8. Shut down the computer once fully flashed. Restart is not enough.
8. Power on the machine and run command prompt as Administrator again and navigate to the meinfo64 folder and run info.bat. Assuming you have 64 bit OS. Otherwise run info.bat under meinfo for 32 bit OS. Make sure it says: "FW Version: 8.1.40.1416"
9. Enjoy!

Edit: I have updated the tutorial to be more fool proof.

[Ghostearth]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Hi,

Sorry to say thats is not working on my ga-x79-ud3, even if i get the latest bios installed F12u, when flashed the MEI firmware is still in V7 and when i try to flash i always get the same error. I don't understand why certain can and other can't.

Ghostearth.

Here are is the simplest method to update to latest version of MEI on your X79 variant Gigabyte motherboard:

1. Update to latest Beta BIOSHERE.
3. Extract the firmware into a new folder, let's call this folder A.
4. Open command prompt as Administrator.
5. Navigate to folder A > Local-Win64 in command prompt.
6. Run flash.bat
7. Once successfully flashed you can check by running info.bat under meinfo64. Assuming you have 64 bit OS. Otherwise run info.bat under meinfo for 32 bit OS. Make sure it says: "FW Version: 8.1.40.1416"
8. Install the latest MEI driver from HERE

[zerowing]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Hi,

Sorry to say thats is not working on my ga-x79-ud3, even if i get the latest bios installed F12u, when flashed the MEI firmware is still in V7 and when i try to flash i always get the same error. I don't understand why certain can and other can't.

Ghostearth.
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The Intel Firmware Update Utility on the pictures you posted is reporting that you have the 8.1.10.1286 ME Firmware installed with BIOS F12u.
Not being able to find the parameters might have something to do with how Gigabyte updated the ME Firmware.

[Ghostearth]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Nope, you mistaken, fresh screenshot :

Ghostearth.

[ZzBloopzZ]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Try flashing to this BIOS:

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/48085-gigabyte-modified-bios-124.html#post458495

That is what I am using.

[Ghostearth]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Thanks for the tips but unfortunately it does not work, always the same error, nevermind back to f12u and being patient

Ghostearth.

Try flashing to this BIOS:

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/48085-gigabyte-modified-bios-124.html#post458495

That is what I am using.

[ZzBloopzZ]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Forgot to mention, make sure that you have the latest MEI drivers installed so that it can communicate properly while flashing. I was originally receiving errors until I installed the drivers as I was on fresh Windows install.

[Amurtigress]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

I am kinda stuck with the MEI V7 too on my X79-UD5 here. Since F13p the event log has been throwing 1-4 MEI warnings at me at every bootup for no apparent reason.

Log Name: System
Source: MEIx64
Date: 14.07.2013 02:34:03
Event ID: 1
Task Category: None
Level: Warning

Maybe that's not having any adversary effect.

Out of curiosity, does the modded UD3 BIOS allow updating the microcode? ASUS BIOSses have gotten to 070F by now, and Gigabyte is stuck at 070B. AFAIK with 070C Intel has introduced stability improvements...

[zerowing]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

I am kinda stuck with the MEI V7 too on my X79-UD5 here. Since F13p the event log has been throwing 1-4 MEI warnings at me at every bootup for no apparent reason.

Log Name: System
Source: MEIx64
Date: 14.07.2013 02:34:03
Event ID: 1
Task Category: None
Level: Warning

Maybe that's not having any adversary effect.

Out of curiosity, does the modded UD3 BIOS allow updating the microcode? ASUS BIOSses have gotten to 070F by now, and Gigabyte is stuck at 070B. AFAIK with 070C Intel has introduced stability improvements...

Gigabyte clearly doesn't care about its customers anymore.
They are not releasing the Intel updates as they should.

[ZzBloopzZ]

Re: How to upgrade mei on my ga-x79-ud3

Wonder what you guys are doing differently.

I was able to successfully update the firmware for MEI to v8.1.40.1416 on my X79-UD3 with latest modified bios F12u-mod.

In fact, I have flashed to it 3 times successfully. Whenever I flashed to older BIOS it would update to older MEI that was in the bios image file.

I just edited the tutorial with some changes, want to try again?