

Looking through my notes I have references to forum posts with some stating that using E14 allowed writing to 0xFF0000 - 0xFFFFF (bootblock region) and some stating they still could not write to that region.

It seems I foolishly only tested flashing of an unmodified BIOS when I was writing the bootblock upgrade part of the guide. As you have excellently documented, the full BIOS can be dumped, and (not?) flashed if unchanged, but won't flash if there are changes. I had some issues with software flashing as well, when I was testing ME v7 to v8 upgrades. Using SP82644, I was only able to upgrade to ME 8.1.72 with AMT enabled in BIOS, E1 in the upper position, and E14 unbridged.Dumping the BIOS, rebooting, and dumping again results in BIOS files with different MD5 hashes in FreeDOS and Windows 10.You cannot reflash your unmodified BIOS file using DFT after you have rebooted. Dumping and reflashing the unmodified the BIOS in FreeDOS and Windows 10 works until you reboot.

