Michael,
Thank you so much! I have got it Patched now, thanks to your input. Just for reference, -if anyone ever manages to mess this thing up to the extent I did,
Here are the steps I had to take:
1: Started SoftPaq (HP drivers and updates suite) and ignored its claims regarding what was downloaded and what was installed.
I then Found the MEI drivers "Intel Management Engine Interface (MEI) Driver" (SoftPaq 57380) and installed them
- This Driver reinstalled and started LMS, UNS and ME services / drivers to my OS, and I let them all have full access to whatever Network connections they wanted
This is a screen capture of the SoftPaq window:
2: Tried to install the HP SoftPaq SP80195 again, but it failed like before. It just flashed a CMD-prompt and exited without any info given, other than the
OS.log file located in the SP80195 extraction directory is updated with current date.
3: Rebooted, and entered MEBx BIOS. MEBx page still said: "Intel (r) Management Engine BIOS Extension v8.0.0.0069 / Intel (r) ME v8.1.3.1350", so Patch not applied.
4: Exited MEBx BIOS page and booted to Windows
5: After Boot, I ran the Intel-SA-00075-GUI.exe, and it showed this:
I found it strange LMS was not running, and went into Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services, and double checked the service was indeed running,
and ran the Discovery Tool again:
I guess the Service just needed a bit more time to start than I had given it...
6: Started HP SoftPaq and selected the sp80195 from the "This Computer > Downloaded SoftPaqs" window. I right-clicked it and selected
"Unpack to directory" and renamed the default directory (sp80195) to "sp80195a":
7: I then navigated to the new "sp80195a" directory, and double-clicked the "CallInst.exe", and that _finally_ seemed to unpack, install and Patch
my Firmware (The CMD-prompt did not just flash and fail, but ran a full install that took a minute or so...):
8: I rebooted, and ran the Discovery Tool again, and there it was:
Finishing off
I guess my last steps will be to decide If I am going to let all the ME-services and components keep running on my system or if I will disable
everything again. It is tempting to Provision my system and play around with this to see if I find it useful to be able to access my system remotely,
but my system is only managed by me and its use will be solely CAD / CAM and 2D design and I cant actually imagine a scenario where I would
benefit from having this running in the background.
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Just out of curiosity, I ran a fresh PassMark on my system to see if there was any noticeable effects of having the services running:
Before ME Patch:
After ME Patch:
I dont think those differences has anything to do with this Patch, and it will not be noticeable that the LMS, UNS, ME services are running...
And My HWINFO64-info now looks like this:
And a new drop-down is present after Update and Patch showing "Intel ME" as a separate listing:
So. Thank you again Michael!
All in all, it looks like what was needed was for me to understand that I had to install the MEI-drivers and let all services (LMS, UNS, ME)
be running before I could Patch. I know I could have just said "thank you Michael, -it worked" and left this post at that, but just in case anyone
else tries to solve similar problems, I do all those screendumps and flood this topic with info
- Guess this entire post should be renamed "How to unmess ME and apply SA00075-Patch after having followed too many Mitigation guides
online without understanding what one is doing"...
Claus