LSI 9260-4i / 8i fw / bios help needed

[trans am]

I'm in exactly the same position as trans am, with a LSI 9260-4i. I'll attempt to install the OS on a separate SATA drive and then run the Windows based configuration. I was able to get to the Web-based configuration within the bios, but when it came to allocating a virtual drive size with two ssd in an array, the keyboard lost all functionality..until i pressed Del, ensuing a full computer reset :/. Can't seem to flash from the command prompt when booting from thumb drive, either. So, I've taken heed to your advice Computurd and will most certainly not attempt to flash it again, in that way.
I may have to hit you up on Google Chat Computurd.

Off-topic, is the redundancy back up battery worth purchasing for the card?

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I also made a usb boot drive and copied the FW files and the megacli crap and I hit DIR to see if they were showing up but when I ran the dos commands to flash I got a message about not enough ram or something like that. Today when I was on the phone with LSi I asked about the bbu (bat backup) she recommended if you are using ssds in raid you should have it for the write back cache function to work properly. the correct one for the 9260-4i is iBBU07. http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSyste...iBBU07_QIG.pdf

This might have been why my system was rebooting or she is just trying to sell us more crap we dont need. Daitro is the board in your sig the one you are using the card on? I might be able give you some bios settings to make it work. Otherwise I suggest doing what I am and get a trusty sata drive and install it on the onboard mobo sata and remove the lsi and try to get a clean windows install and install all your chipset crap and then the lsi driver. then see if you can plug in the card and boot off the same drive you just installed on and see if windows sees the card and installs the drivers for it. once you do that maybe you can finally flash that sucker. im doing the same thing. I dont have tomorrow off from work so i'm gonna be on here all night.