1. Full Recovery Of The Intel Management Engine Firmware Failed Because The System

Hi folks!I recently picked up a Lenovo Y70 (touch) It's a middle of the road system (laptop) with Windows 8 installed.I've been getting hourly pop-ups from Intel about their firmware recovery agent and Management Engine.Do I need these or may I uninstall them? I've never seen these before and after I googled it, they do not appear to be necessary unless I want to give unknown outside people the ability to come in and remotely brick my computer.

Full Recovery Of The Intel Management Engine Firmware Failed Because The System

And whenever I see 'this accesses system stuff.but Intel needs your authorization' it makes me wary. If it is core functionality, then Intel already has access. I've said no since day 1 and it's been 2 months and I have not noticed anything melting/blowing up yet so I'm very tempted to uninstall the lot.Advice please and thanks!

The ME software can be safely uninstalled, while still leaving the device driver installed.Intel ME has 3 factors:1. The ME firmware, which is included as part of the motherboard bios2. The ME device driver3. The ME Windows software that gets installed along with the device driver#3 is only useful in corporate environments.See:@bbhaag: 'Why a P67 board needed a BIOS and a IME update to recognize a SB cpu is beyond me.' That's due to Intel's convoluted security procedures regarding ME firmware.

Updating the motherboard bios may also necessitate updating the ME firmware, but require doing that as a separate update procedure. That way, the bios and ME firmware are more 'in sync' than otherwise would be the case. I second Vailr's post. I contacted Intel a while ago to find out the value of MEI (and related) on a stand-alone desktop that is used only for recreation and no one is allowed to fiddle with except me. After parrying several BS responses, Intel stated that not installing it would not hurt my system but neither would installing it. They did state however, that I probably would want to disable the related 'Services' that would be installed along with the driver, if I decided to install. They never identified any benefits to installing on a stand-alone system.A few observations:1) If a MEI driver is not installed, a 'PCI Simple Communications Controller' exception will appear in Device Manager.

I have not noticed any other effect. 2) Most of the MEI driver packages will give you two or three 'Services' (that you do not need) along with the driver.Bottom Line - If you are using as a stand-alone system, delete all the software, disable the Services and either leave or uninstall the driver.

I am trying to fix 2 problems with my Thinkpad, which are causing system reliability and stability issues:1. Updateui.exe stopped working. The Faulting Application Path is C:Program Files (x86)IntelIntel(R) ME FW Recovery Agentbinupdateui.exe. The version of updateui.exe is 0.0.0.0 and the Fault Module Name is ntdll.dll.2. Crash Report Sender stopped working. The Faulting Application Path is C:Program Files (x86)IntelIntel(R) ME FW Recovery AgentbinCrashReportSender.exe. Since my last post, I have contacted Intel support who have stated the following in relation to Intel(R) Manageability Engine Firmware Recovery Agent version 1.0.0.35342.'

Please note that the version 1.0.0.35342 is provided exclusively by Lenovo, and it is not available as a generic version in our site since it is an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) product. I would recommend contacting Lenovo and ask for a higher level, they might be able to provide access to their software or a way to safely remove it from your system.' 'This product is OEM and does not have a generic equivalent that can be downloaded from our website.

Also note that we recommend contacting Lenovo since they are the ones that may determine the degree in which this software was integrated in their Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Operating System image and if the software can be removed or not without causing problems in your computer.' 'Thank you again for contacting Intel Technical Support. We are sorry for the inconvenience.' Does anyone have the expertise to advise on this problem or the solution?