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Check your mother download page is correct ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI) BIOS & FIRMWARE | Motherboards | ASUS Global
Download and install the Intel ME update dated 14/5
And install the latest bios Version 1005
Unfortunately your mother manufacture didn't update the Microcode to version 14/5 yet, so you have to wait for windows to release it.
Run CMD as admin and execute these commands, and wait for the new Microcode to be released.
Code:reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 72 /f reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverrideMask /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f
Important, you need to update Intel ME
Check this link ASUS Update of Intel management engine firmware-Laptop Reviews
Download and extract the file MEUpdateTool_12.0.35.1427.ZIP
Make sure you close all other application, run MEUpdateTool.exe as administrator and follow the instructions, don't interrupt,
reboot once done
Hi JenyJ,
As I said in my post, I applied some registry tweaks. Specifically, these ones:
As far as I can tell, the only thing I accomplished was to disable hyper-threading (which protects against ZombiLoad). It did not take care of SSBD. Am I missing something?Code:reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 8264 /f reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverrideMask /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f