Watchguard Firebox M400/M500
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@stephenw10 ...
Well, well... i can see my lack of experience in the netter
.you are correct Sir... just another nooby mistake.
To answer your question about the cpu, I ordered few weeks ago the i5-4590 mention in the forum and it worked ok after the bios update. the one that i got was defected so the vendor replace it with this i5-4690. i got just today and though it was pulling too much power and the cooling in place wasn't enough. luckily you made me see the light. :)Still a couple more changes in the next weeks... hopefully all goes well.
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Make sure it reboots as expected. A lot of CPUs will fail to warm reboot for some reason.
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@stephenw10 that i think i solved :) (couple months ago),however,it was on my machine only,so no second check...it was bios from here from the minilinux distribution,that i modified with newer intel 'me' (9.5 vs 9.1 if i remember correctly) to support haswell refresh
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Hmm, interesting I thought I had tested that. But it was a long while ago...... let me see. I have one that fails to reboot currently.
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@korenchkin ..... Interesting, because I have been shutting the m400 down rather than rebooting, I was not aware of that. I assumed that was fixed with the modified BIOS in the tinylinux.
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@jriofrio this would solve rebooting issue FOR haswell refresh(basically unsupported cpu for this board)...if you have issues with original cpu,it is probably different issue...just a warning,it is tested just on mine board,which is not netgate(but i used this bios from here,and board is basically the same,so usual warnings)
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@korenchkin .... No, I didn't have any issues with the original CPU. I installed the i5-4690 on it which is a Haswell refresh CPU. So how I can update to the me 9.5 in order to solve the rebooting issue?
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@korenchkin is this the bias file that is linked to above?
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@chpalmer i think yes,i posted it shared from google drive,only change is me part,you can verify it yourself in binary compare,i think there is jumper that needs to switch for me flashing(not sure now)
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Yeah it's posted here. I haven't tried it yet.
But I can confirm the v6mod bios with the default ME fails to reboot an i3-4160 still. And I believe that is a 'refresh' CPU.
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@stephenw10 oh yeah,that is my post (i'm on my phone,so thanks for linking it),yeah,this should help..
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@korenchkin .... I'm getting a little confused here... I installed the BIOS v6 included in the tinylinux and I do have the rebooting issue with the i5-4690 CPU... So is there another update BIOS with the updated ME 9.1 or 9.5 ?
Please clarify this.....
If there is a update it bios , with the updated ME 9.5 where I could find it...
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@jriofrio it was a long time ago,so i misremembered the numbers,it is 9.1 you need,and it is not bios(read about intel me,caution,lots of conspiracy,but is it conspiracy?),but it is in bios chip(nand/nor flash),so similar tools,and linked my post one or two posts above this how to update
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@korenchkin ...thanks for the reply.... I have a question, i hope you or someone can answer it.
in this image (opnsense) there is this option (highlighted). Not sure IF is just an add-on in order to look and find a update to intell cpus or is an actual microcode update... anyway, please clarify.
thank you
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@jriofrio said in Watchguard Firebox M400/M500:
in this image (opnsense)
The OPNsense forum is a more sensible place to ask questions about an OPNsense package.
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@jriofrio it is exactly what it is named,a microcode update,that updates in runtime cpu microcode,we don't need to talk about any specific solution,a microcode update in os does what the name says,updates usually old bios microcode(not sure where it resides,cpu dedicated memory for microcode maybe?),and it is lost on power off(or maybe cpu reset?)
If you want to play,you can update this microcode in bios using ami tools and won't need to run this in os...but it does not matter,i think this bios has latest microcode anyway...play with bios file,i think uefitool is a good start for reading that file
