If you disable ME, NIC will not send WOL signals to it and will use other methods, like global SMBus signals, and ME will not interfere into boot (probably overriding driver setting by settings from own firmware).
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If you disable ME, NIC will not send WOL signals to it and will use other methods, like global SMBus signals, and ME will not interfere into boot (probably overriding driver setting by settings from own firmware).