{"id":227,"date":"2019-04-11T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coochey.net\/?p=227"},"modified":"2020-03-17T10:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T10:29:03","slug":"upgrading-asus-prime-z370-a-me-firmware-without-running-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading Asus Prime Z370-A  ME Firmware without running Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a ASUS Z370-A Prime motherboard. I don&#8217;t run Windows natively, but do under Virtualbox on Ubuntu Linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asus released an Intel Firmware Update with only a Windows MEUpdaterTool executable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I Created a WinPE image from my Virtualbox Windows 10 virtual machine,  which I dd&#8217;d onto a USB, and managed to use the Intel updater tool in the X:\\FW folder to complete the upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you find yourself in my position, you can download the WinPE environment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/winpe_amd.img.bz2\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note, the MEUpdateTool in the root folder, is not supported in the PE environment, just CD in to the X:\\FW folder and use the FWUpdLcl64.exe tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just, unzip the image and dd it to your USB drive (below assumes that \/dev\/sdb is your USB drive, check first or you might clobber another disk in your system):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo dd if=winpe_amd.img of=\/dev\/sdb bs=4M<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a ASUS Z370-A Prime motherboard. I don&#8217;t run Windows natively, but do under Virtualbox on Ubuntu Linux. Asus released an Intel Firmware Update with only a Windows MEUpdaterTool executable. I Created a WinPE image from my Virtualbox Windows 10 virtual machine, which I dd&#8217;d onto a USB, and managed to use the Intel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}