Quote Originally Posted by e.v.o View Post
Want some new infos on those ed up BIOSs from ASUS?

i updated the SATA RAID AHCI feature set in the bios: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OFJ3WHS8
maybe someone could test this one... i'm going to bed now. i don't know if it works... but i hope it will
maybe ket will have a look at it?

asus: SHAME ON YOU!
if you look at the boot agent you will read something like this in the code: "DEVELOPMENT BUILD - NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!!!"
I tried your BIOS and all works fine - you can wake up with a smile of a job well done The ICH10R firmware now reports 8.5.0.1023 if I remember correctly. It also has a green line at the right when initialising with the words "* data encryption" or there abouts.

Somebody somewhere bought 4x new Seagate 7200.12 500GB drives for a speedy RAID0 but said it resulted in strange problems. Perhaps the ICH10R firmware was to blame or the drives themselves, who knows. Either way a newer firmware can't be a bad thing and since Asus couldn't do it, you had to

Brings back the memories of when I used to do such things back in 2000 when I had Gigabyte 6BXD and Tyan 100 motherboards. Remember how I updated the CPU microcode back then and enabled some hidden BIOS options.