Quote Originally Posted by shawn1998 View Post
Well, found the bios on the DFI website and flashed. One thing it solved, on the negative side, is that my Areca 1210 card will no longer work in the 2nd pci-e 16X slot, under any circumstances. I can get it to boot once in awhile, but only at 1X. Before, on the 11/28 bios, as long as I had both floppy power connectors unplugged, it would work at 8X. Now, with both unplugged, it only works at 1X. So, I benchmarked the card in 4X and 8X and found absolutely no difference in performance, so it really doesn't matter. I stuck it back into the top 4X slot and all is well (with both floppy connectord plugged in).
SHAWN,

have you tried putting the areca card in slot 1 and your VC in slot 2?...i did that with the original bios without any aux. 5/12v power and it worked just great..8x bandwidth for the areca card and 16x for the VC...posted and booted fine and i was able to access the areca bios during post regimen.

have you tried the above with the newest bios?

i found the areca card will get higher burst speed at 8x bandwidth over the 4x slot.