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wardog 
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 Posted: 08 Mar 2018 at 8:17am |
Meltdown and Spectre BIOS fix?
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Milkman
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Posted: 08 Mar 2018 at 8:15am |
I've noticed the new (2.00) firmware is posted in the BIOS section for the x299 boards.
Has anyone.... done any testing on this code? Is there any feedback from bench testing? I am feeling very low-confidence about all this, and I don't plan on installing mitigation firmware that potentially contains more issues, or more support for more DRM issues...
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Milkman
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Posted: 27 Feb 2018 at 1:01pm |
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Sorry - should have said that despite installing the above ME, my CPU/chipset are still vulnerable to the SA-00086 thing.
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Milkman
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Posted: 27 Feb 2018 at 12:57pm |
I used the update found in that link, and that actually got my Intel ME up to a more recent version. I was using the one found on the ASrock downloads page, and it wouldnt update me beyond the version that was dated 6/2017. Now my ME driver version is dated 1/2018, so that's good.
However intel just got back to me and said they wont be supporting SGX on the x299 chipset, so none of this matters for me. RMA time. I wont be saddled with a board and CPU that can only do 50% of what I built them to do, and it isn't my fault that a burdensome, mostly broken type of DRM was added to the chipset AFTER IT LEFT THE PRODUCTION LINE. That is a "gotcha" situation that I will not be dealing with.
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M1hai
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Posted: 20 Feb 2018 at 11:05am |
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The fix for the Obsolete Licensing thing. It's in the link on the anterior reply.
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2ndLastJedi
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Posted: 20 Feb 2018 at 7:39am |
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M1hai
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Posted: 20 Feb 2018 at 2:43am |
@jclausius @2ndLastJedi @tsunami2311 After a long, long time, here you go http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7183&PID=42350
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jclausius
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Posted: 16 Feb 2018 at 5:55am |
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Unless you picked this up in early January, ASRock released UEFI/BIOS 1.40 for the x299e-itx/ac yesterday.
If you've already downloaded and installed this version before it was removed, there's no need to do it again. In fact, you won't be able to as the UEFI is the exact same one (binary equivalent) to the one from a few weeks ago.
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jclausius
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Posted: 30 Jan 2018 at 1:32am |
 tsunami2311 wrote:
according to intel the broadwell and haswell chips are the ones affect by reboots. |
Yes. I saw that too.
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tsunami2311
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Posted: 28 Jan 2018 at 2:00am |
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according to intel the broadwell and haswell chips are the ones affect by reboots.
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