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    +1 , Old Way i meant DOS...and as said above, i also guess there is a procedure in ASUS website for downgrading, not sure though where i've seen it...

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    i try flash my BIOS from DOS using afudos but same problem
    <<the bios is too old or isn't compatible with this mb>>
    i use bios : 1402 and 2603 .


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    Quote Originally Posted by mime_fx View Post
    i try flash my BIOS from DOS using afudos but same problem
    <<the bios is too old or isn't compatible with this mb>>
    i use bios : 1402 and 2603 .
    I don't know which afudos version do you use, but try this one: Link
    Last edited by Sunfire; 11-13-2010 at 10:48 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mime_fx View Post
    i try flash my BIOS from DOS using afudos but same problem
    <<the bios is too old or isn't compatible with this mb>>
    i use bios : 1402 and 2603 .
    You have to use an older version of afudos. I used v229 but the one above (v207) should also work.
    I also used these parameters but don't know if they are required.
    AFUDOS /ixxxx.rom /pbnc /n

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    ok.
    i made it with the afudos 207 thnx to sunfire
    i use the parameter AFUDOS /ixxxx.rom
    afrer reboot my pc don't post i clear cmos several times but nothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mime_fx View Post
    ok.
    i made it with the afudos 207 thnx to sunfire
    i use the parameter AFUDOS /ixxxx.rom
    afrer reboot my pc don't post i clear cmos several times but nothing.
    Dis you manage to sort it out m8 ????

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    Quote Originally Posted by mime_fx View Post
    ok.
    i made it with the afudos 207 thnx to sunfire
    i use the parameter AFUDOS /ixxxx.rom
    afrer reboot my pc don't post i clear cmos several times but nothing.

    you will need a new bios chip mate because the above command does not overwrite the boot loader properly so you will be running mismatched

    you needed to run this command AFUDOS /ixxxx.rom /pbnc /n

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    i fix it!
    thanx.

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    I guess that's it for bios updates for this board ..

    There hasn't been a new bois for over 6 months now ,
    but until this last bios , we used to get new boises once or twice a month

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonny_doe View Post
    I guess that's it for bios updates for this board ..

    There hasn't been a new bois for over 6 months now ,
    but until this last bios , we used to get new boises once or twice a month
    trust me there has been a halted 3702 bios that was quikly replaced with a 3706 bios, that has disapeared, but it still echo's on the asus site,


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    You can now get 3702 from japan site, and also on the U.S. site
    Code:
    http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socketAM3/M4A79_Deluxe/M4A79-ASUS-Deluxe-3702.zip
    M4A79 Deluxe 3702 BIOS
    Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonny_doe View Post
    You can now get 3702 from japan site, and also on the U.S. site
    Code:
    http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socketAM3/M4A79_Deluxe/M4A79-ASUS-Deluxe-3702.zip
    M4A79 Deluxe 3702 BIOS
    Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
    RAID Option ROM is still the same...
    HDD recognition still fails almost every boot...
    Waiting for a decent AM3+ motherboard...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sunfire View Post
    RAID Option ROM is still the same...
    HDD recognition still fails almost every boot...
    Waiting for a decent AM3+ motherboard...
    HDD Recognition Fails ? You mean disks not found at all, or that it takes much time?

    i've a R-0 of WD6400AAKS and they're just finely recognised. It is a matter though that my Gigabyte 790X-DS4 with 3.2.1540.6 scans disks much more faster (2-3 dots passing vs. 10-12 dots at scan with M4A79)

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    Quote Originally Posted by felix_w View Post
    HDD Recognition Fails ? You mean disks not found at all, or that it takes much time?

    i've a R-0 of WD6400AAKS and they're just finely recognised. It is a matter though that my Gigabyte 790X-DS4 with 3.2.1540.6 scans disks much more faster (2-3 dots passing vs. 10-12 dots at scan with M4A79)
    Different things can happen when I turn on my PC. For example:
    1. Every disk (2x200 GB RAID-0 and the two 640 GB single disk) recognized within 2-5 dots.
    2. Same as 1. but a lot more dots needed. Sometimes I see two(!) rows of dots. This means 1-2 minutes of waiting, but at least, it works.
    3. Every disk recognized (after a long wait), but RAID-0 is offline.
    4. One or more disks missing from the list.

    Option 1 and 2 are really rare, maybe every 5th boot.

    I've double checked my drives, all of them, neither is reporting S.M.A.R.T. errors. I don't know what else can I do. I made a request about half year ago to upgrade the RAID Option ROM in the BIOS, but it doesn't seems to be happening at all.

    I can understand, that BIOS upgrades on newer boards or/with newer chipsets or/with Socket AM3 are more important, also Sandy Bridge is launched and they (Asus) had to do a lot of work with UEFI, etc. I also don't know how much time is needed to upgrade the RAID Option ROM and test it to be useful and make a beta BIOS. I would try that BIOS for sure. Maybe it won't be helpful at all, but at least I could have said that they have tried to help.

    At now, I'm just tired about this
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    finaly we get 3702

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    ...all pics of chew's posts are lost...

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    Why do you need them?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sunfire View Post
    Why do you need them?

    Apart from the fact that it was a very good "review", i was searching for some good closeup photo of the area near the 8-pin power socket.

    I finally got home and looked at my board....

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    Quote Originally Posted by felix_w View Post
    Apart from the fact that it was a very good "review", i was searching for some good closeup photo of the area near the 8-pin power socket.
    good review?! yeah! it was really useful when you wanted to push your board to the limit
    Unfortunately google cache didn't helped this time. Try to PM him, maybe he still have the pictures somewhere

    I finally got home and looked at my board....
    And? What did you found?
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    I bumped on a Vdroop mod for M4A79XTD model and wanted to find out if they shared the same controller.. M4A79XTD has an EPU controller and M4A79 has ST L6740L controller...

    i know it has been discussed, but for e.g. 1.5125V in BIOS, i get 1.469~1.472 in CPU-Z and as i recall the DMM measurement was close to CPU-Z, not BIOS value...i thought that maybe i tried a vmod...

    i'll check again when i have more time...pin No.5 is the Vdroop according to the datasheet, so i'll check the traces and see if i can get somewhere with this...

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    That's a realy bad vdrop, but it seems that all M4A boards suffer from this. Mine too. Back in that days when I've played with this board I made a sheet with voltages. One column showed the voltages set in the BIOS, and next to it was the real voltages under load. Since then I've moved several times and that paper got lost.

    Look what I found: M4A79 Deluxe Vmod
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    New BIOS 4101 13/4/2011 :

    M4A79 Deluxe BIOS 4101
    1. Improve system stability.
    2. Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at:
    http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...Language=en-us
    3. Enhace compatibility with some USB device

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    M4A79 Deluxe BIOS 4101
    Release date: 2012/01/31
    1. Improve system stability.
    2. Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at:
    http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...Language=en-us
    3. Enhace compatibility with some USB device.

    I'm so mad now, need to take a brake before I write anything else...

    Edit: I'm slow...
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    Y u mad ?

    RAID ROM still 3.0.1540.59...seems they keep that on the safe side...newer versions had some trouble with SSD's as far as i remember, at least as reported on Gigabyte boards...

    I just flashed it, so far so good....

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    You've got it: RAID Option ROM. That's why I'm mad. Really mad.
    Already flashed this BIOS a few days ago, so far so good.

    Just few quick questions:
    - Are you using RAID or AHCI mode?
    - Stock MS AHCI driver or AMD?
    - If you are using the one from AMD, which version is it?
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