12-03-2018, 09:25 AM
So I have an ECS H61H2-M2 V1.0 and an i5-3570. I want to put the i5 in the board, but its BIOS isn't updated to support Ivy yet. I have an i3-2120 that I'm using right now to attempt to update the BIOS, but I can't get anything to work. I've tried both versions available on their site, in both Windows and FreeDOS (Using AFUWIN/AFUDOS), and I've even tried older versions and an ES version of the tool that I found on this forum. None have worked. After some googling I found a thread with this, which implies I need to update the board as kind of a bridge between BIOS versions. But when I run this program, I get the message "Fail to upgrade. Please check if ME_UNLOCK is shorted." It shows up whether ME_UNLOCK is shorted or not.
I'm lost for ideas at this point. I could just manually flash it but I'd need a tool for that and there are none sold locally so I'd need to order and wait weeks. Does anyone know what the problem here is?
I'm lost for ideas at this point. I could just manually flash it but I'd need a tool for that and there are none sold locally so I'd need to order and wait weeks. Does anyone know what the problem here is?