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    Help with Intel AMT /ME

    Hi,
    I've been looking into the possibility of using Intel AMT (active management Tech) as a diagnostic tool for faulty motherboards. What I want to do is communicate with say no boot motherboard via AMT and see if it will give me any information as to what wrong (that's the theory :-)

    I'm using an Asus prime H510m motherboard as a test bed, it has ME in its BIOS chip but I'm struggling to access it via LAN connection.

    I have Meshcommander program the problem is I cant seem to find how to enable the ME bios extension (MEBX) on the Asus motherboard, I've tried using Crtl P but that's not recognised also the main bios screen shows what version ME is installed but there are no further options in the BIOS to activate it??.
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    #2
    Re: Help with Intel AMT /ME

    AMT is an enterprise tool, your motherboard had RGB headers and makes no mention of vPro.

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      #3
      Re: Help with Intel AMT /ME

      Thanks for the info.

      I get that AMT is an enterprise tool that needs Vpro, i've got the opensource version Meshcommander.

      I just dont understand why Intel ME would be put on a motherboard then not give you the option in the BIOS not to use it, I'm guessing the out of band sub-system for ME is also built into the PCH on the motherboard.

      My hope is that having a microcontroller sub-system built into the motherboard (ME) independant of the operating system would be a great tool for hardware debugging if only i could get access to it
      Last edited by petemanuk; 12-31-2022, 07:36 AM.

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        Re: Help with Intel AMT /ME

        Consumer products include only a stripped-down version of ME (smaller ME firmware).
        "Corporate" products with the "Intel vPro" branding include the fully-featured ME with AMT (larger ME firmware), only Q chipsets support the full set of features, not the usual H/Z chipsets of consumer platforms.
        The ME doesn't just do AMT, it is a core part of the PCH and necessary for Intel platform initialization on modern platforms, that's why it is also included on consumer platforms even without AMT (or the equivalent TXE on Atom platforms).

        In any case, while it provides some information about the platform, AMT is not a diagnostics or debugging tool.
        OpenBoardView — https://github.com/OpenBoardView/OpenBoardView

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          #5
          Re: Help with Intel AMT /ME

          Thanks for clearing that up, I didn’t realise ME did more than just AMT.

          Just a thought do you think it could be feasible to take an ME firmware version that has AMT and add it (make a Frankenstein Bios) into an existing commercial board Bios to get the corporate AMT features?

          It seems such a shame that there is this separate sub-system in the PCH that could be possibly used for debugging but like you say if AMT doesn't have diagnostic capabilities then there's no point, unless someone could re-write the ME firmware to do this?

          Last edited by petemanuk; 12-31-2022, 10:20 AM.

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            #6
            Re: Help with Intel AMT /ME

            For that you would need to ask in motherboard firmware modding communities like these:

            https://www.bios-mods.com
            https://www.wimsbios.com
            https://forums.mydigitallife.net/forums/bios-mods.25/
            https://winraid.level1techs.com/c/bi...modding/7/none

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              #7
              Re: Help with Intel AMT /ME

              https://www.intel.com/content/www/us.../software.html

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