News Intel ME Required for Arc Firmware Upgrades on Non-Intel Systems

[Admin]

Intel Arc graphics cards use an Intel-specific feature to upgrade their firmware, meaning non-Intel PCs can't manage it.

Intel ME Required for Arc Firmware Upgrades on Non-Intel Systems : Read more

 

[-Fran-]

Oh... This is going to make people's lives SO MISERABLE if they need to upgrade their GPUs VBIOS then; I'm not even joking.

Friggen' ME almost bricked my Sandy Bridge motherboard. I had to low-level debug the ROM and force it to upgrade the ME by hand because the automated upgrade failed miserably. This wasn't Asus' fault and it was Intel's. Most of the people that had this issue had to RMA from what I found out while researching, but I remember finding a solution for it; that's why I have a horrible memory of it.

I hope they've gone past the stupid shenanigans now and it's less risky, but man... This sounds scary.

Regards.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

More reason to never use Arc, EVAR!

 

[Deleted member 431422]

The things Intel does to make people use it's hardware is just.... I'm happy AMD is as an alternative. We'd be in a horrible position if Intel had a monopoly.

 

[ikernelpro4]

Thank the NSA for allowing us to disable the Intel Mangement Engine backdoor

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3...able-intel-me-backdoor-thanks-to-the-nsa.html

 

[gdmaclew]

Please update your article.
A report on Arstechnica says that IBM confirmed that MEI is NOT necessary for firmware updates.
Firmware updates are possible using Intel or AMD CPUs.