I sincerely apologizes if I've ruffled any feathers in the past.
I'm stuck in a serious corner and i crying out for help!!!
Was having issue with my crossfire, after system resume from sleep, I would get BSOD within an hour (bios 1.3). Landed up removing second card for 3 months just for a stable system. Updated to beta L1.34 and it didn't fix issue. Decided to swap my AMD 6970 crossfire to an Nvidia 580 and 460 (for physx), then system wouldn't POST. system would POST fine with either one nvidia card but not both. This was about 3 weeks ago, with IB coming out i checked and here was a new beta bios L2.04. Put in second GFX and voila POST no problem, went straight into BIOS to reset OC. Unfortunately the bios wouldn't recognize my ram's XMP and even manually wouldn't POST. After some trial and error with timing and voltages i found a stable ram setting, with no CPU OC.
Unfortunately, when i then proceeded to windows I got a windows boot error ( something like 0xc00000e), figured the MBR got screwed up with all the failed posts. Tried to repair MBR but not go. I wipe the drives and tried to reinstall but windows refused, and gave an error, " make sure this drive is bootable in bios" something along those lines.
After some time , i risked downgrading BIOS all the way to 1.0, however even there i had an issue installing windows. I reloaded L2.04 and still same problem. I found that if i disabled or ran intel sata at anything but with a RAID array setup (i.e RAID mode with no array), I was fine. installed windows and tried to setup my array again, but after reboot, same problem. I also get a message after post stating "insert boot media .... press enter" if i just press enter it goes.
I have a feeling that the ME firmware flash the first time i updated to IB L2.04 was a bad flash, but system still runs (just without my Intel RAID). I've only seen my system update ME once even though i've flashed {L2.04 over L2.04, 1.3, 1.1, L2.04} Not sure if this is a general beta issue or my system specific, is there a way to re-flash the ME firmware?
Any other suggestions?
I use Revodrive3 for OS & 4x WD6400AKS RAID 10 vertex 2 50Gb SRT accelerated for programs/storage (the former is currently disabled)
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