Hi everyone, today I was about to reply to another person who had updated BIOS from v56 to v66 and as reported by others, since v61 or v64, the boot progress gets stuck. In verbose mode -v something unknown (and not visualised) prevented the system from completing boot. A solution was found (will post later) but when I went on Intel's site to check the BIOS, I was very much surprised to see that v66 now is removed-nuked, and that's just one-month old BIOS release!
Latest release as of today remains v51, not even v56. So what on earth is going on with their engineering team?
BIOS files seemed to be common releases for NUC8ixxxx devices, here are the official links, pointing to v51 only:
NUC8i5BEK = https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/126147/Intel-NUC-Kit-NUC8i5BEK
NUC8i7BEH = https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/126140/Intel-NUC-Kit-NUC8i7BEH
Are Intel getting sloppy? What on earth could they have done wrong so that 3 versions are pulled?
The needed Clover DSDT patch/fix to keep booting after a v66 update seems to be, per user nickhx the following:
<dict>
<key>Comment</key>
<string>Fix NUC BIOS DSDT Device(RTC)</string>
<key>Disabled</key>
<false/>
<key>Find</key>
<data>oAqTU1RBUwE=</data>
<key>Replace</key>
<data>oAqRCv8L//8=</data>
</dict>
Not sure what it patches and how RTC is involved but another user Leesureone also confirmed booting... Seems this comes from an ASRock motherboard that had a similar issue. Comments welcome, I would be interested to know what it fixes, though.
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