Asus Z370 Maximus X Motherboards

OldMike65 said:

Here is mine .....same as Steves....almost.

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Mike, I think the difference is you are not running BIOS 1401 which updates the IME. Our IME is different.

Polo6RGTI said:

Security Version Number

I went to GitHub and got the ME Analyzer: GitHub - platomav/MEAnalyzer: Intel Engine Firmware Analysis Tool

after opening the .rar run the .exe it opens cmd and you need to drag and drop your BIOS .cap file into the command prompt.

Then ME Analyzer will check it.



It say's the my ME SVN is version 3

So for some reason Intel's SA 00086 is not reading my system correctly.


Edit: And @Brink you might want to add info about this tool I found to the Intel ME firmware thread
It might help people investigate when they get a Not Protected, and they should be.
Like Intels tool reading my BIOS wrong

Found the problem!

As I looked through my system, I checked Device Manager(to make sure Intel MEI was up to date(it was),

And saw in the power management tab allow PC to turn off MEI was ticked.
I guess it must of happened after the April 2018 upgrade.


Anyhow after unselecting and rebooting it reads the SVN correctly and gives me a clean bill of health:

essenbe said:

Mike, I think the difference is you are not running BIOS 1401 which updates the IME. Our IME is different.

Right and I know that already, even posted that I am not updating my bios.....

Cliff S said:

Found the problem!

As I looked through my system, I checked Device Manager(to make sure Intel MEI was up to date(it was),

And saw in the power management tab allow PC to turn off MEI was ticked.
I guess it must of happened after the April 2018 upgrade.


Anyhow after unselecting and rebooting it reads the SVN correctly and gives me a clean bill of health:

Well I checked mine, and it was still ticked on, but still showed me at SVN 3 ....didn't make any difference for me.

OldMike65 said:

Well I checked mine, and it was still ticked on, but still showed me at SVN 3 ....didn't make any difference for me.

Because your BIOS is old & dusty
Just joking.
Oh well whatever works for me.

Cliff S said:

Because your BIOS is old & dusty
Just joking.
Oh well whatever works for me.

Yes mine is old and dusty I agree, and my rig is still faster than yours....LoL

OldMike65 said:

Yes mine is old and dusty I agree, and my rig is still faster than yours....LoL

I was too poor to afford an APEX & FTW3

But your system would be faster and more stabile at even higher clocks, if you'd update your BIOS:
01. Improved DRAM stability
02. Improve system performance.

Cliff S said:

I was too poor to afford an APEX & FTW3

But your system would be faster and more stabile at even higher clocks, if you'd update your BIOS:
01. Improved DRAM stability
02. Improve system performance.

I read that Cliff, but I can oc my ram very high now,think I had it at 3700 and no crashes, and my cpu can get to 5.4 ....5.3 is completely stable. 5.4 not so much. Enough for a few bench marks if I need too.
That Dram stability is for some other brands of memory thou. To make THEM more stable, mine has never been a problem. G Skill does cost more thou. This is main reason I don't update my bios right now Cliff, if I was having some kind of issues, I would in a heartbeat .

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