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5858## Known issues
5959
60- ### Problem
60+ Here are known issues, grouped by the platform vendor.
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62- Platform: ` MSI `
62+ ### Generic
63+
64+ #### Heads update fails
65+
66+ Heads firmware update fails with error message displaying issues with (any of)
67+ FD, ME or BIOS regions being either locked or not not flashed.
68+
69+ ??? success "Solution"
70+
71+ For heads update, the following regions must be unlocked and flashed: FD,
72+ ME, BIOS. If any of the regions is locked, the update will not proceed
73+ in order to avoid bricking the device.
74+
75+ For ME related warnings, please ensure the Intel Management Engine is
76+ disabled in Dasharo settings. Please disable management engine using
77+ `HAP` mode, and if the update still fails after the change, please also try
78+ with ME in "soft-disabled" mode.
79+
80+ ### MSI
81+
82+ ---
83+
84+ #### Locked FD region and ME warnings
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6486The following warnings appear when updating Dasharo:
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@@ -68,36 +90,36 @@ The firmware binary to be flashed contains Flash Descriptor (FD), but FD is not
6890The firmware binary contains Management Engine (ME), but ME is not disabled!
6991```
7092
71- ### Solution
93+ ??? success " Solution"
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73- The locked Flash Descriptor makes it impossible to unlock and flash the
74- Management Engine. The problem is not critical and you may continue with the
75- update process. Your firmware will contain old ME. However, we advise to perform
76- additional steps to flash it, as the old ME may cause some issues in the future.
77- To do that, you will have to flash firmware with FD and ME externally using
78- FlashBIOS. This will bypass the locks on those regions. If you wish to proceed
79- with this approach, please follow the steps in the
80- [ recovery guide] [ recovery-msi ] . Keep in mind that the memory will need to be
81- trained again, and firmware settings will be reset.
95+ The locked Flash Descriptor makes it impossible to unlock and flash the
96+ Management Engine. The problem is not critical and you may continue with the
97+ update process. Your firmware will contain old ME. However, we advise to perform
98+ additional steps to flash it, as the old ME may cause some issues in the future.
99+ To do that, you will have to flash firmware with FD and ME externally using
100+ FlashBIOS. This will bypass the locks on those regions. If you wish to proceed
101+ with this approach, please follow the steps in the
102+ [recovery guide][recovery-msi]. Keep in mind that the memory will need to be
103+ trained again, and firmware settings will be reset.
82104
83- ### Problem
105+ #### FlashBIOS not working
84106
85107Platform: ` MSI Z790-P DDR4 `
86108
87109Dasharo version: Before ` v0.9.2 `
88110
89111FlashBIOS does not work
90112
91- ### Solution
113+ ??? success " Solution"
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93- The problem is likely caused by the fact that we changed the versioning scheme
94- of firmware. Due to this mismatch, FlashBIOS only works for ` Z790-P DDR4 ` since
95- ` v0.9.2 ` . If you wish to update to that version, you will first need to flash
96- the BIOS region with ` v0.9.2 ` firmware and then use FlashBIOS to flash
97- everything, including ME. You can flash BIOS with the following command:
115+ The problem is likely caused by the fact that we changed the versioning scheme
116+ of firmware. Due to this mismatch, FlashBIOS only works for `Z790-P DDR4` since
117+ `v0.9.2`. If you wish to update to that version, you will first need to flash
118+ the BIOS region with `v0.9.2` firmware and then use FlashBIOS to flash
119+ everything, including ME. You can flash BIOS with the following command:
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99- ``` bash
100- flashrom -p internal --noverify-all --ifd -i bios -w < firmware_file>
101- ```
121+ ```bash
122+ flashrom -p internal --noverify-all --ifd -i bios -w <firmware_file>
123+ ```
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103125[ recovery-msi ] : ../unified/msi/recovery.md
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