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[–]christnmusicreleases 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

You got a link for this tool?

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

Be prepared to get your hands dirty if you're going to apply it. You have to make a backup of your BIOS (obviously), then patch a copy of your BIOS with the tool, and then flash your BIOS chip with the patched BIOS image. It's recommended that you do external flashing using a USB programmer with a SOIC clip. You have to open up your PC, locate the BIOS chip, and attach the clip to connect it to the programmer. The programmer is plugged into a laptop from which you send the flashing commands. This video provides a good demonstration.

If the above sounds too complex for you, you can try internal flashing. Many motherboards have a flashing tool in the BIOS, and otherwise there should be a tool that runs under DOS, so you should install FreeDOS, boot into it, and run the tool from there. However, you should definitely NOT do this on a machine you're using, because if you brick it, you're still going to have to get the USB programmer and do external flashing to at least unbrick it. That's how I did it: internal flashing first because I was impatient, then I got the tools and did it properly. I'd say that it requires effort, but for me the hardest part was getting over the feeling that you're intimidated by it. Actually applying the patch and troubleshooting was relatively straightforward.

[–]noice 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This has motivated me to look into flashing libreboot on one of my older computers. I have considered it, but never very seriously