GA-K8N51PVMT-9 recognizes 2TB Samsung HD as 1 TB?

[F5BJR]

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I have modified NVRAID.ROM

first problem : $pnp structure is modified for 10DE 036E Tyan Option Rom by 10DE 0265 and not good checksum structures ( 12 structures  )

another problem : entire BIOS is with not correct checksum in  last byte ( corrected ) 

Hope this bios is good

upload NVRAID.ROM correct ( for future usage ) and BIOS F4 modified

Pierre

[F5BJR]

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I have found 9.87 NVRAID version

I have make good ckecksum for nvraid.rom and a new bios F4

Pierre

* Test and report if is good

 

[F5BJR]

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Not tested with 2To disks but start and i can mount RAID with my ASUS A7N8X-XE modified BIOS ( same chipset )

Last found version 10.0.0.36 ( $pnp cksm OK + entire ROM CKSM )

Pierre

[Dark Mantis]

The forum is lucky to have your skills to call on Pierre, especially on the storage and BIOS sections! 

[immad]

I flashed my bios with version 10.0.0.36, but now the pc hangs on "MediaShield ROM BIOS etc". I can't even enter the bios. How should I fix this?

[Dark Mantis]

What program did you use to flash the BIOS ?

[F5BJR]

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That is not a flash problem but with Option ROM 10

I have tested with some motherboars ( and with my ASUS K8N i have also this problem if mode is programmed in BIOS in RAID mode ( stop to Option ROM )

I have finnaly flashed with version 9.87 and i can mount 2 * 500GB RAID and run

Pierre

[immad]

What program did you use to flash the BIOS ?

I used awdflash to program the bios.

I was planning on hotflashing, but since the bios chip is soldered to the motherboard, I guess it's game over?

However, it _does_ get through POST, so isn't there a secret key combination to let it flash from a floppy drive or so before it tries to initialize the nvidia stuff?

[Dark Mantis]

You can press F12 after POST to choose which drive you want to boot from. Check what Pierre said though.

[F5BJR]

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look this posts :

http://www.mydigitallife.info/recover-or-undo-corrupt-ami-bios-flash-update/

http://yorickdowne.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/recovering-from-bios-failure-on-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/

Pierre

[immad]

You can press F12 after POST to choose which drive you want to boot from. Check what Pierre said though.

It hangs on the message I posted a few posts above. I can't get it to boot from anything, since it hangs on nvidia media shield rom. Otherwise it'd have been easy.

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look this posts :

http://www.mydigitallife.info/recover-or-undo-corrupt-ami-bios-flash-update/

http://yorickdowne.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/recovering-from-bios-failure-on-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p/

Pierre

I've found this: http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=76346

This motherboard doesn't use an AMI bios, but the procedure for award bioses seems similar. Now I need to find out the pins to give an CRC error to enter the boot block recovery process. I've found http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/106070/SST/SST49LF004B-33-4C-NH.html, but I can't find the correct pins to use. The guide says to connect the highest Axx pins, but when I connect A8 with A9, nothing happens.

Edit: several other combination don't work either.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

Please check your PMs.