Where I work we have many lenovo m93 Thinkcentre PCs. In one of them, errors appears right after the lenovo logo. The error sometimes says «FW status Initializing Error» or «FW status Recovery error». Right after that an error saying «(A7) Me FW downgrade MeSpiLock Failed» appears. We can bypass these errors, sometimes the PC will work correctly and some others it will shutdows shortly after.
We have reset the CMOS, restored bios factory defaults, disabled safeboot, updated the bios, changed the hard drive, replaced memories, changed the PSU, replaced battery, checked processor temps and even tried with another processor. We´ve tried almost everything short of replacing the Motherboard.
The PC is a Thinkcentre M93, Model: a019LM and the motherboard model is lenovo IS8XM (American Megatrends). It has an i3-4i30, stock cooler, no OC.
Does anyone have a suggestion what could be causing this error? Is it Fixable? or should we just give up and replace the Motherboard.
a. go to BIOS setup menu and enabled «Me FW Image Re-Flash».
c. once it boot to DOS, update the BIOS.
d. unplug AC power cord.
e. Plug in the AC power cord in 30 seconds and power on the system.
Please make sure there is no power down or manually reboot between step b & c.
If you still has a problem to update the ME firmware, follow below procedures to update again.
1. unplug AC power cord.
2. switch the jumper JPME1 to pin2-3.
3. plug in AC power cord and power on the system to update BIOS.
4. after the BIOS update completed, shut down the system and unplug the AC power cord.
5. move the jumper cap back to JPME1 pin 1-2.
11-06-2017 03:07 AM
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My pc shows FW status recovery
11-06-2017 09:23 AM — edited 11-06-2017 09:25 AM
> While opening my system, it shows FW error recovery.
The ‘FW’ could be an abbreviation for «firmware» — the software that directly controls the hardware, to turn the hardware (RAM, disk-drive, CD/DVD, CPU, video-card) from a collection of parts into a computer that allows Windows to run.
The ‘error recovery’ could mean that the «primary» firmware has a problem, and a «backup» copy of the firmware has been used.
What is the model-number of your computer?
You cited: MOF92)C#ACJ
but the ‘)’ character is not valid in this context.
After the error-message, does the computer «freeze», or does it still load Windows?