Intel management engine driver windows 10 msi motherboards

#Intel management engine driver windows 10 msi motherboards drivers
#Intel management engine driver windows 10 msi motherboards software

Thanks again for taking the time to explain all this in detail.

Still, it's your decision whether you accept this risk. I have the skills to recover from issues that many of you do not and thus I am likely less risk adverse that you (at least in this case).

#Intel management engine driver windows 10 msi motherboards software

One more time, this proviso: I am a software engineer and a 35+ year veteran in the trenches (including 21 years with Intel and most of this within the Desktop Boards and NUC development groups). Because of the risk, however, I will make sure that I have a complete backup of my system so I can recover to where I was if something goes wrong. Now, understand that I am a former member of Intel's Desktop Board and NUC development teams (I am retired now) and, while I understand that there are some risks involved (since no formal validation has been yet done for my boards), I am pretty confident that Intel has done enough testing that I should be OK.

#Intel management engine driver windows 10 msi motherboards drivers

What *I* will be doing is immediately downloading the drivers (from wherever I can get them) and using them. What do you do? It's completely up to you. You may have to wait a long time for drivers to be released for your board - and, indeed, for many boards, they will never be released. This is frustrating for folks with these older products, I know, but it is reality. Further, Intel is not going to post drivers for a product without having validated on it, as this could potentially generate costly support issues down the line. It costs a lot of money to perform this validation (or to pay someone else to do it) and you are not going to throw away money with no return on the investment. Now, those older products that are out of their warranty period may get no testing at all and you will never see updated drivers posted for them. Once this is compete, only then will you see the validation team look at older products. You are seeing the drivers posted for the NUC products first simply because they are active products and thus are getting priority with the validation folks. For Intel silicon features, the Desktop Board products require the same drivers that products like the NUCs do (at least those of a particular generation). For their older products, if they are still under warranty and if their warranty says they will support new O/Ss released during the warranty period, they will perform this validation second.Д«ack to our situation. Now, they do this first for their active products.

Once this validation is complete, they release the drivers to their customers for those products. When drivers are released by the silicon feature teams, groups within Intel - like the NUC team - and outside of Intel - the ODMs like ASUS and MSI and OEMs like Dell - will perform their own validation of the new drivers across their products. Once everything has been verified, the team will release the drivers. In fact, even though many of Intel's desktop boards have been end-of-lifed, it is likely that some of them are still being used for this testing. This was previously the case for Intel's Desktop Boards and is currently the case for Intel's NUCs. In some cases, the third-parties are actually other parts of Intel. Once they are clear here, they then repeat the tests on a number of products obtained from third-parties. First comes Validation Vehicles (VVs) - the boards that Intel develops to test new silicon. They do this testing on a number of different platforms. The groups that are responsible for the device drivers for Intel silicon features, when they make changes necessary to support a new O/S (like Windows 10) or to fix a bug, must thoroughly verify that the changes work properly and do not cause any issues with other software, supported O/S or device drivers.

Let me back up at this point and talk about Intel's processes. What it comes down to, in most cases, is the bottlenecks that occur at the validation resources that are necessary to ensure that the drivers work on a particular product and do not, at the same time, cause problems with other drivers (or software or a particular supported O/S). Oh, Intel is definitely interested in getting the drivers out - at least for their standard silicon features - as soon as is possible.