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Armo
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I decided to update the BIOS on my A8N for the eventual arrival of the x8 raid card. It will support the board in one of the x16 slots with the latest bios update. so i download the latest real version, ot the beta, of 1015, i use the Asus Updater to load the new bios, not before making a back up, god save the backup.
yadda yadda, flashes fine this that and the other. so i go to restart and i go into the bios, make sure that it didnt turn the SATA ports off ( which was a deal with the old ASUS board i had, everytim you update the bios it turned the SATA pors off ) everything seems to be in order, a few things get turned off/on. no big deal, F10 to save ad restart.. and ohh let the fun begin.
so i let it kick off and after assigning the IRQ's it just sits there with a blinking hash, like you have a CD in the tray and its trying to boot from it. i make sure theres not CD, and the Ipod or anyother USB device is plugged in. restart, same thing OH JOY! go scour the bios looking for settings i might have missed. nope not that i can see. still does the same thing just sits there.
load bios defualts, still does it. eventually - about and hour and a half later - i decide to turn of everything in the bios it shouldnt need to start up, including the Silicon Image Raid Controller. low and behold it will NOT boot with the 1015 bios and the SI RAID controler enabled in the bios.
thank GOD i had a backup of the old BIOS, i had to specially set the Asus Updater to do a bios downgrade but i finnally got it all working like it was before this whole ride on the fun-mobile.
my question is this, considering what it is doing this do i need to update the bios on the SI in order to get it to work in the new bios. ASUS dosnt technicly support the controler 1st hand, SI does, they have bios' and some old skool dos updating stuff, but am i going to cause more damage by updating then staying alone.
oh also, if any one has any broght ideas how to migrate my data from the old array to the new array when the new array wont work with the old bios, and the old array wont work with the new bios, lol my life is halarious.
yadda yadda, flashes fine this that and the other. so i go to restart and i go into the bios, make sure that it didnt turn the SATA ports off ( which was a deal with the old ASUS board i had, everytim you update the bios it turned the SATA pors off ) everything seems to be in order, a few things get turned off/on. no big deal, F10 to save ad restart.. and ohh let the fun begin.
so i let it kick off and after assigning the IRQ's it just sits there with a blinking hash, like you have a CD in the tray and its trying to boot from it. i make sure theres not CD, and the Ipod or anyother USB device is plugged in. restart, same thing OH JOY! go scour the bios looking for settings i might have missed. nope not that i can see. still does the same thing just sits there.
load bios defualts, still does it. eventually - about and hour and a half later - i decide to turn of everything in the bios it shouldnt need to start up, including the Silicon Image Raid Controller. low and behold it will NOT boot with the 1015 bios and the SI RAID controler enabled in the bios.
thank GOD i had a backup of the old BIOS, i had to specially set the Asus Updater to do a bios downgrade but i finnally got it all working like it was before this whole ride on the fun-mobile.
my question is this, considering what it is doing this do i need to update the bios on the SI in order to get it to work in the new bios. ASUS dosnt technicly support the controler 1st hand, SI does, they have bios' and some old skool dos updating stuff, but am i going to cause more damage by updating then staying alone.
oh also, if any one has any broght ideas how to migrate my data from the old array to the new array when the new array wont work with the old bios, and the old array wont work with the new bios, lol my life is halarious.
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As background, my experience with ASUS has been that they run from at least three separate servers (Taiwan, Europe, US) and they aren't necessarily in sync. The Windows BIOS utility versions supported might not even be the same between them. Most of my bad downloads were from the US server (it was also unavailable a lot) and my best experience has been with Taiwan. It also seems like every time I'd run the update utility, there's a newer version out. I suspect that there might still be configuration issues and version 10XX US is not necessarily 10XX Taiwan.
Then to top it all off, I have a A7N8X board that has more variants and flavors than Ben and Jerry's. I had something similar happen to me once when I didn't read the fine print on the update- but fortunately, like you, I'm a blessed pessimist and had a back-up.
I'm not sure what happened here, but my biggest headache with BIOS has been getting the proper download as I've had the same version from different sites behave differently. This hasn't been an issue for me lately, but I havent had to download as often lately either (the board is pretty retro now). Maybe try from scratch again?
Then, of course- per your post- it IS a beta version? Maybe contact ASUS and tell them what happened?
Unless someone else has an idea, I'd still give ASUS some feedback on their real or beta version and let them join in on some of the family fun
EDIT ADDED: Sorry, I amended this- you were trying to say NOT, not OF the beta version?