rstolpe1988 wrote:
I can bee wrong but arent the FW stored in the Motherboard/chipset and not in Windows?
Yes, and no. When you update the firmware, you do so from the download, in Windows. The 'install.cmd' file that you run is a script that calls "FWUpdLcl64.exe", which is the Intel made firmware update tool, and tells it to update using the "VersionNumber.bin" file.
The updater takes the .bin file on your drive, and 'puts' it in the flash chip on the motherboard.
The command for this in the script is:
FWUpdLcl64 -FORCERESET -ALLOWSV -F 14.1.51.1528.bin
The firmware can also be backed up to disk with the same update tool. In basic terms it does the reverse of the update command - it reads the chip on the board, and writes the chip's contents to a file on disk.
Some people are big about backups (like myself), because rarely, the firmware can introduce a bug that could do anything from causing strange crashes to even rendering the system unbootable. Without a working firmware backup that you have locally (on your disk), life can get annoying really fast should you need to restore the last working firmware and wait for a bugfix release to come along.
For the record, the command to do a backup (in the script I wrote a bit back) is:
FWUpdLcl64.exe -save ME-FW-backup_%datetime%.bin
Before the last firmware, I had been unable to do the backups, as the firmware was reporting that it was in a state that could not be read. This is why I'd asked about the error before: "Error 357: Restore Point Image was requested, but it is not allowed because CSE is in Recovery Mode." However, the firmware he'd released right before I made that post, it was able to back up properly (hence my edit in
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