Quote Originally Posted by GFORCE100 View Post
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.
YEAH! Thats great! Feels reeeeeeeeeal good to hear that! Now i need to have some newer versions of the AHCI code and some other stuff. Maybe Ket could help me a bit since the 1901 MIIF BIOS is the source for his P5Q mBIOS.

A benchmark would be nice