Intel Communities: Message List - Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

Re: Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:14:58 GMT

Excellent.

Re: Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

sandy.wood@da.ocgov.com — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:08:07 GMT

Thanks to everyone who made this available. It works like a charm and tells us what AMT Firmware we're really at.

Re: Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:47:52 GMT

Obtain meinfowin.exe by going here http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-67953.html and downloading the management engine firmware update. The firmware update extracts the data to C:\DRIVERS\WIN\ME which contains meinfowin.exe.

Meinfowin.exe must be run from the command line and requires statusstrings.dll which is also included in the extracted data.

Re: Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

sandy.wood@da.ocgov.com — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:00:25 GMT

I think it may be called MEinfowin.exe also. I've been trying to contact HP (without much luck) to see if they can get the tool for me.....

Re: Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:55:14 GMT

Speaking of a tool that provides information about provisioning state and firmware versions... isn't there a tool called MEINFO that provides that?

Re: Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

sandy.wood@da.ocgov.com — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:57:48 GMT

That will be good to have in SP1. At this point it appears that there's not a good way to be sure the firmware is 3.2.1. Is this correct? I would love to be able to pull the version with our current SCCM agent however it appears that without a tool/utility to run on the client machine, we can only be sure it's updated by the success of the firmware update.

Re: Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

davidra@microsoft.com — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:45:53 GMT

ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 includes a WMI provider for the HECI driver. It'll grab the actual firmware version for you and report it through hardware inventory. Or, you could use software inventory with ConfigMgr to inventory the HECI driver itself (although it won't necessarily tell you the firmware version).

Re: Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

sandy.wood@da.ocgov.com — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:37:57 GMT

Hey Josh,

A tool would be good - something about being able to see the new rev makes me feel good. I don't think I'll be able to hit the web ui yet as we're not provisioned so far. One other question, has the ME version been stored in WMI anywhere? I'd like to be able to pull it with our current SCCM agents to keep inventory of what machines have what versions.

Re: Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:10:23 GMT

HI Sandy.. you can hit the web ui for the given box & it will read the right version at the bottom of the screen.. i.e. HTTPs://ipaddress:16993/ as I believe you are in Enterprise mode. There is a tool you can use as well, however I need to check if I have that posted yet that you can run on the given platform to see the exact version of each of the components i.e. HECI, LMS, MEBx, etc..

Josh H

Re: Help on Updating my HP ME Firmware

davidra@microsoft.com — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:25:51 GMT

I think it's an issue with the MEBx. I see the same version on my MEBx for my DC7800, but in fact, the firmware is at 3.2.1. You should be OK.