Hi everybody, this is my first post to this forum.
To try making a longer story short, I used Gigabyte's utility "@Bios" to flash the motherboard BIOS from v.F4 to v.F9. @Bios reported success, but BIOS (and Windows XP...) say the firmware version is still F4. How come?
My WinXP is installed on an IDE disk as Master on ch0 (my other IDE device is a DVD-RW as Master on ch1). The reason I wanted to upgrade BIOS was that I had been unable to make WinXP detect my SATA configuration (two spare, more or less legacy, disks in RAID 1). The firmware upgrade did not help in this regard, but partly disabled the hot boot, i.e. "Restart", option in the "Start" menu.
I then also installed the latest Gigabyte "Chipset" drivers (v.6.85 - although Nvidia seems to have a later version 6.86...), but this didn't change anything (that I could see).
On a whim, I ran Seagate's DiscWizard, which offered to register the RAID "disk" with Windows. I let it, and now have a seemingly functioning RAID setup. However, I don't trust this arrangement, and I would very much like to know the real levels of my BIOS and MB drivers. And to have hot boot back!
Any advice, comments, suggestions?
To try making a longer story short, I used Gigabyte's utility "@Bios" to flash the motherboard BIOS from v.F4 to v.F9. @Bios reported success, but BIOS (and Windows XP...) say the firmware version is still F4. How come?
My WinXP is installed on an IDE disk as Master on ch0 (my other IDE device is a DVD-RW as Master on ch1). The reason I wanted to upgrade BIOS was that I had been unable to make WinXP detect my SATA configuration (two spare, more or less legacy, disks in RAID 1). The firmware upgrade did not help in this regard, but partly disabled the hot boot, i.e. "Restart", option in the "Start" menu.
I then also installed the latest Gigabyte "Chipset" drivers (v.6.85 - although Nvidia seems to have a later version 6.86...), but this didn't change anything (that I could see).
On a whim, I ran Seagate's DiscWizard, which offered to register the RAID "disk" with Windows. I let it, and now have a seemingly functioning RAID setup. However, I don't trust this arrangement, and I would very much like to know the real levels of my BIOS and MB drivers. And to have hot boot back!
Any advice, comments, suggestions?
