trying to flash bios on Rosewill sata card

soothsayersoothsayer CT., USA
edited January 2011 in Science & Tech
I recently purchased a Rosewill RC-209-EX 4 port sata 150 card. I'm trying to use it with only my Lite-On LH29A1L sata dvd burner. The problem is that the chip is set up for StatRaid5 and I would like to flash it with base bios to a non-raid state. I'm using XP Pro and there doesn't seem to be a tab in device manager for flashing the bios. I've tried the dos updflash only to get stuck at the "STARTING FLASH MEMORY (0-7FFFF(hex))" looking for a page? I took the card out to read the chip EN29LV040A. I've got the right base bios and driver. The motherboard is an Asus P4G8X Deluxe.

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  • Gate28Gate28 Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited May 2008
    Did you hit up the asus website to check for BIOS updates? If push comes to shove, you could use the CMOS jumpers on your mobo to reset your BIOS and see if that works.
  • soothsayersoothsayer CT., USA
    edited May 2008
    Thanks for the help. My final solution was, since it was recently puchased, I enchanged it. Once again, THANKS ALL:wink:
  • Your-Amish-DaddyYour-Amish-Daddy The heart of Texas
    edited May 2008
    Well, here's something that might help you for future reference. When flashing a card's bios, disconnect ALL connected devices.
  • webelwebel Newburgh NY
    edited April 2009
    soothsayer wrote:
    I recently purchased a Rosewill RC-209-EX 4 port sata 150 card. I'm trying to use it with only my Lite-On LH29A1L sata dvd burner. The problem is that the chip is set up for StatRaid5 and I would like to flash it with base bios to a non-raid state. I'm using XP Pro and there doesn't seem to be a tab in device manager for flashing the bios. I've tried the dos updflash only to get stuck at the "STARTING FLASH MEMORY (0-7FFFF(hex))" looking for a page? I took the card out to read the chip EN29LV040A. I've got the right base bios and driver. The motherboard is an Asus P4G8X Deluxe.
    HI
    Make sure you have the non raid (base) bios. there are usually 3 versaons of each bios. rxxxx.bin Raid bios bxxxx.bin Base or non raid. The 3rd bios is used in conjunction with a motherboard based 3114 controler. The card you have is most likely based on a Silicon image 3114 chip. You want the base bios for a pic add on card. Also there are different versions of updflash. It will usually warn you if it is not compatable.

    Silicone Image recently changer their support policy and no longer supports the 3114 family :(

    Hope this helps

    Tom
  • unstoppableunstoppable
    edited January 2011
    thank thanks thanks...... u r just fantastic soothsayer :rockon: .... din't see this help from any other thread but finally got it :respect:
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