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ME Firmware Downgrade Error on Startup
I've had this XPS 8900 for a little over a year and just started getting error on startup. A message appears in upper left hand corner of black screen during boot up. Unfortunately, it doesn't stay active long enough to capture all of the message. However, I do know that some failure is reported and the message includes ME Firmware Downgraded or something very similar.
Any ideas???
robert p
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February 10th, 2017 03:00
Hi pragmaticron,
Thanks for posting.
Here is a Forum post that may be helpful.
pragmaticron
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February 10th, 2017 13:00
I saw the thread earlier but questioned the recommendations. It seems that the solutions presented had mixed results. Also, when a second hard drive was installed and Dell helped me set it up for RAID-1 (Mirrored Hard Drives), Boot Mode BIOS settings had to be changed in order to complete the setup. However, it should be noted that the RAID-1 setup was done a year ago and I did not experience the ME Firmware Downgrade error until yesterday nor have I changed BIOS settings since the RAID setup.
It just seems prudent to look into the problem in a little more detail. Having said that, it would be nice to get a good explanation of just what "ME Firmware Downgrade" and "Request MeSpiLock Failed" really means.
robert p
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February 13th, 2017 03:00
The ME stands for INTEL MANAGEMENT ENGINE.
SPI lock has to do with failed bios update and internal MANANGEMENT ENGINE FIRMWARE.
http://dell.to/2lb6EWf
http://dell.to/2laUmgQ