I've updated my Lenovo T430 Optimus to the most currently available official firmware v2.74 (updated 2017-10-1). I was able to shrink and disable Intel ME; the laptop will work with this modification. Now I just need a whitelist removal to make the firmware as good as possible. I've attached the firmware and added a link to Dropbox (just in case). Thank you to this awesome community!
T430 Optimus Combined (U49+U99) ME Cleaned/Shrunk and Disabled Firmware (via Dropbox)
FYI - I do have an external flasher. I was able to get Coreboot to work to a degree but only with the NVidia GPU disabled. I will continue to work on getting a working Coreboot image and post it should I ever accomplish that.
T430_Optimus_ME_Cleaned_Combined.bin (Size: 12 MB / Downloads: 0)
T430 Optimus Combined (U49+U99) ME Cleaned/Shrunk and Disabled Firmware (via Dropbox)
FYI - I do have an external flasher. I was able to get Coreboot to work to a degree but only with the NVidia GPU disabled. I will continue to work on getting a working Coreboot image and post it should I ever accomplish that.
