BlackOps G32

[saaya]

Hey Guys,

Heres G32 with some bios option renaming and some further small bugfixes

http://depositfiles.com/files/8835138

DONT FLASH TO BIOS G32 IF YOUR USING RAID!
Raid will not work on this BIOS unless you update the LAN mac address manually with this tool.
There is some conflict between the raid chip and the lan chip.

[HDCHOPPER]

allright saaya on top of things

[NCspecV81]

nice! flashed... Although I could have sworn I could use lower voltage w/ G30! Still testing!


you have to know the exact changes to this bios as from the g30?


*edit* I take it back, seems to be more stable with just a hair less volts. Good work!

[Ryan12]

If i flash the bios - will my OC GEAR settings stay the same? Or will it wipe those settings?

[saaya]

the settings will still be there, but im not sure if they will still work 100%.
since some stuff is changed slightly, using a saved profile that was created with an older bios might cause weird issues.
we havent changed any voltage options so there shouldnt be a risk of the profile setting a way wrong voltage somewhere, so just give it a try
but keep this in mind for future updates...

[Ryan12]

Thanks Saaya, ill see how i go

[Xello]

Hmmm, i'm not sure i'm going to bother flashing any later bios than G30, it took me weeks to get my overclock settings finalised and i can't bear the thought of having to go back into that

[negev]

Xello why not just use the same settings and do a 12hour prime run? You can always revert back to g30 if it fails.

[Xello]

Xello why not just use the same settings and do a 12hour prime run? You can always revert back to g30 if it fails.

I don't know man... There's just no benefit to be had by flashing to a newer bios for me now. I would still be on G28 if i wasn't getting 4870x2's and needed G30 for them Plus this new vtt 'fix' sounds good in theory but if it means i'm going to have to go back into the bios and change things... No thanks Quite happy enough with what i have.

[negev]

fair enough, vtt fix isn't until g33 i think..

[saaya]

Thanks Saaya, ill see how i go

have fun!

Hmmm, i'm not sure i'm going to bother flashing any later bios than G30, it took me weeks to get my overclock settings finalised and i can't bear the thought of having to go back into that

just flash it to one of the 2 chips and if it doesnt work, just switch back to booting from the G30 bios
there isnt a big change so far tho, so i dont know if its worth to go from G30 to G32... id wait for G33 which should have more changes and improvements.

Saaya was the vtt thing fixed in this bios? i.e. if we set 1.35 now is it really 1.35 or still 1.25?

nope, thatll be G33

When i flashed using the live update tool and just located the G32 bios it seemed to work ok... it restarted i set all the RAID settings properly.. then it just would not boot it kept giving me some checksum error... cant remember exactly what it was.. Went into the bios it showed G30 still.. and not G32 so i load optimized defaults and still no good.

So then i cleared the cmos, finally got back into the bios changed my settings back and after a few reboot attempts it eventually got past checksum error and loaded up windows... Very weird

Broken, damn, that sounds annoying... very weird... so.. how come even the original bios didnt boot anymore? that doesnt make any sense hmmmm
did you flash back to G27 or did you switch to the second BIOS chip that still had G27 on it?

and how you cant run raid anymore or none of your sata drives are showing up at all?

Stupid thing just sits there after Verifying DMI Pool Data....... Update Success. I hit alt F2, that doesn't work either. Pretty aggravating.

sorry, dont understand what you mean...
it hangs during bootup?

OK, WTF. Finally got a flash drive bootable. Reflashed with G32 and getting the same bull. Have option rom not installed or something. Flickers past the screen so fast, trying to hit ctrl i to get drives setup, but doesn't look like the option is there???? Does anyone test these damn things before posting them?

uhm yeah, but there arent many tests done, this is a G bios, which means its beta... so its not fully tested. there was a problem with raid in some cases, and G32 fixed that... sounds like it broke something else tho? ill check with the bios engineers... sorry guys

Well , the P bioses are the stable release lets say , but the G bioses the beta . G is always better because there are more things than in the P bioses

yepp

I can see my drives OK, but my RAID no longer works.

:S
what do you mean?
you cant run raid at all or your raid image wont work anymore?

[Broken]

No, it looks like the Raid bios part is missing/corrupt. G30 and even G27 will pause as it sees your HDD's and shows all your HDD's and which one is member of a raid and which are not. G32 doesn't do this It flashes something like :
Warning: Option Rom not installed and then some #'s. It is only on the screen for a second., then it goes on to AHCI Bios, then missing os.

My G27 was on my second bios slot form ages ago. Going to flash that on to G30. Not sure why G27 was Blue screening because once I flashed G30 back I am back to being fine.

I am typing this from my System with my Blackops right now. Thank god I have a Laptop or I would have lost more hair than what I did... And here I was thinking it was a corrupt flash from being overclocked. Good to know that wasn't the case.

[ether.real]

:S
what do you mean?
you cant run raid at all or your raid image wont work anymore?

If I set RAID to enabled in the BIOS, I cannot boot into the RAID ROM (Ctrl+I), and it wont see my RAID array from the bootable options. I jumpered over to the backup BIOS (P05) and it worked fine. I reflashed G32, still no work. I flashed back to G30, RAID works fine.

[saaya]

No, it looks like the Raid bios part is missing/corrupt. G30 and even G27 will pause as it sees your HDD's and shows all your HDD's and which one is member of a raid and which are not. G32 doesn't do this It flashes something like :
Warning: Option Rom not installed and then some #'s. It is only on the screen for a second., then it goes on to AHCI Bios, then missing os.

yes, apparently raid doesnt work with G31 and G32 unless you update the mac address manually.

My G27 was on my second bios slot form ages ago. Going to flash that on to G30. Not sure why G27 was Blue screening because once I flashed G30 back I am back to being fine.

pheew, ok, so G30 works fine now?

I am typing this from my System with my Blackops right now. Thank god I have a Laptop or I would have lost more hair than what I did... And here I was thinking it was a corrupt flash from being overclocked. Good to know that wasn't the case.

no, i misunderstood the details of G31 and G32... i thought that the LAN boot and raid conflict can be fixed with G31 and G32 if you update the mac address... but i didnt know that now raid wouldnt work AT ALL and with these beta bioses updating the mac address is MANDATORY! sorry!

If I set RAID to enabled in the BIOS, I cannot boot into the RAID ROM (Ctrl+I), and it wont see my RAID array from the bootable options. I jumpered over to the backup BIOS (P05) and it worked fine. I reflashed G32, still no work. I flashed back to G30, RAID works fine.

ok, yes, it should work fine with G30 and older... sorry about that guys, i didnt know raid in G31 and G32 only works when updating the MAC address manually.

[Broken]

Is someone going to fix this and release it? Is G33 going to have the same issue? If so, will there be a P06 that has the new features plus working Raid? Would we have to update the Lan for every new bios flash? Running out of questions.

Damn you fast Saya

OK, so what Mac address do we enter? Kind of want to know what I am getting into with this utility.


Thanks for finding this out for us. Don't feel too bad, it is fixable and we need something to keep us on our toes.

[Gendo]

Thanks Saaya! I'm about to start a dice run in about an hour so I hope this bios helps! Will try it with G30 first and then flash while overclocking.

Edit: changed my mind about it. I'll try the new one tomorrow. I'm having a successful dice run with the 4870 that was having problems a few days ago with my last dice attempt. I don't want to mess it up again

[negev]

Saaya was the vtt thing fixed in this bios? i.e. if we set 1.35 now is it really 1.35 or still 1.25?

[Broken]

Great fun, my friend is borrowing my USB floppy so I used Live Update. Rebooted, set up the bios the same way that I had G30 and discovered it won't see my HDD's. Not my Raid 0, My Back up drive, nor my sata DVD burner. great fun. My other bios has G27 and for some reason I BSOD when trying to boot with that. Can't find just the DOS 7.10 files to download, all are in an image format so I can't make a bootable flash drive. So trying to get a hold of my friend so i can get back my usb floppy. Moral of the story, don't flash with Live Update overclocked. No matter how stable you think your system is.

[ether.real]

Great fun, my friend is borrowing my USB floppy so I used Live Update. Rebooted, set up the bios the same way that I had G30 and discovered it won't see my HDD's. Not my Raid 0, My Back up drive, nor my sata DVD burner. great fun. My other bios has G27 and for some reason I BSOD when trying to boot with that. Can't find just the DOS 7.10 files to download, all are in an image format so I can't make a bootable flash drive. So trying to get a hold of my friend so i can get back my usb floppy. Moral of the story, don't flash with Live Update overclocked. No matter how stable you think your system is.

I can see my drives OK, but my RAID no longer works.

[Broken]

Not going to be able to get my USB floppy back until tomorrow. Made a bootable USB flash drive. Damn board will not boot from it. Stupid thing just sits there after Verifying DMI Pool Data....... Update Success. I hit alt F2, that doesn't work either. Pretty aggravating.

[Ryan12]

When i flashed using the live update tool and just located the G32 bios it seemed to work ok... it restarted i set all the RAID settings properly.. then it just would not boot it kept giving me some checksum error... cant remember exactly what it was.. Went into the bios it showed G30 still.. and not G32 so i load optimized defaults and still no good.

So then i cleared the cmos, finally got back into the bios changed my settings back and after a few reboot attempts it eventually got past checksum error and loaded up windows... Very weird

[ether.real]

How do the Gxx BIOSes compare to the Pxx BIOSes? Because I am having a dickens of a time getting my new x3360 to clock for anything on P05.

[yiancar]

Well , the P bioses are the stable release lets say , but the G bioses the beta . G is always better because there are more things than in the P bioses

[saaya]

i just talked to the BIOS engineers, theres a bug when booting from LAN and using raid.
as soon as you boot from lan and have raid enabled, then raid wont work properly.
this only concerns system builders who image their systems over the network and use raid... so it shouldnt really be interesting to you guys...

anyways, G32 fixes this problem, but it requires the use of a broadcom tool to update the LAN MAC address.
If you use G32 without the updated mac address, then the conflict between lan and raid gets worse apparently, and thats why you guys have raid issues with G32.

There are two things you can do, update the lan mac address with a tool or use G30, which has raid working normally.
id recommend you using G31 cause updating the mac address requires booting with a floppy and then manually changing the mac address.

sorry guys! :S
so if your using raid, then please use G30.
Sorry!

[saaya]

i updated the first post of this thread and added a warning and a link to the LAN tool

DONT FLASH TO BIOS G32 IF YOUR USING RAID!
Raid will not work on this BIOS unless you update the LAN mac address manually with this tool.
There is some conflict between the raid chip and the lan chip.

sorry again for the headaches i caused you broken, ether.real and ryan12