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You can't disable ME.
by jerheinze 8y ago
You can't disable ME.
- inawarminister 8y agoI thought you can in C2D (Nehalem?) era ThinkPads? https://libreboot.org/ https://libreboot.org/ and you can minimize ME in Sandy and Ivy Bridge, using ME_Cleaner? edit: according to sounds' comment* in HN (2016), The ME is purportedly placed in "recovery" mode [*] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056997
- std_throwaway 8y agoIs that an official tool supported by intel?
- inawarminister 8y agoNo, it's a reverse engineer by the open source community AFAIK. But very stable, I am looking to flash my X220 soon for what it's worth.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoI did this about a year ago on my X230. Works fine.
- jerheinze 8y agoMinimize != Disable.
- inawarminister 8y agoYou can disable the first generation ME https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/gm45_remove_me.html https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/gm45_remove_me.html after that it's impossible though.
- ekianjo 8y agoME cleaner is not claiming to render ME completely ineffective, as far as I remember.
- Kliment 8y agome_cleaner removes most of the ME code (including the HTTP parser listed here) and then causes it to crash after bringing up the system, so it's impossible to communicate with the processor running ME. That's about as good as it gets.
- smolder 8y agoI used me_cleaner to disable all the non-boot-essential ME stuff on my Sandybridge system