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Help with a firmwire update

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alanwest09872

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I have the 2nd generation Intel ssd. i am attempting to do a firmwire update and when I place the cd in the computer and restart my computer it comes up with no Intel ssd detected. Now the only thing I could find that may have something to do with this is how it says dont update on an nvidia system.

Now I have an evga 760 Motherboard made for sli but will work for crossover. Also I have 3 xfx 280 video cards. I believe they are all based around nvidia technologys

Basically what makes a computer an nvidia system. Is it the graphic chips being nvidia is it an nvidia motherboard.


I know that its not up to date because it wont let me run the ssd toolbox the trim option. It says I have to update to the newest firmware.

Now the ssd toolbox does recognize the intel ssd in windows. So while I am in windows intels software does see the ssd but while attempting to do the firmware update during a restart it doesnt.

If anyone has any idea's I would love to hear them. Thanks for all the help guys and/or gals.
 
Try changing the hard disk mode to IDE if you're on AHCI, or AHCI if you're on IDE. If you're on IDE, you should be on AHCI anyways. Change it back to AHCI after the update if that works, obviously.

If that doesn't work, you'll just have to borrow someone else's computer for 5 minutes and do it there.
 
I had it set on raid instead of ahci because I have 2 veloraptor drives in raid. I had to turn it to ahci restart the pc let me install firmwire then I went back into the bios and placed it back on raid.

Now doing this I was able to get my ssd firmware update done. I am really wondering about my ssd speed. It is running at about 210Mbps instead of 250. The 210 is the max also not the normal running speed. The normal speed is 200. Is there any way to make it run at 250.

I took the time to do a setup that was writen on the net.
I turned off
1. Defragment
2. Superprefetch
3. prefetch.
4. Page filing to 0 (I have 12g of ram)
5. Indexing is turned off
6. I setup firefox
7. There are a few other things I did that I cant remember.

So as you can see I spent the time to make sure the drive is completely setup so why arnt I getting close to my actual max speed of 250. Is it because in my bios it is set to Raid instead of ahci.

Recap of questions.
1. Why isnt my SSD running at 250Mbps its running at max 210
2. Is it because of my bios being set to raid instead of ahci
3. What format should I set my dvdburner drive to. I have the burner on its own set of chip the jmicron xxxx3. (not the real number just the 3 part) I have it set to ahci right now. Should I change it to Ide or keep it where its at.

So all hardrives are connected to the Intel raid chips. The dvdburner is connected to the jmicron chip.

I am able to set different setting per chip.

My motherboard btw is evga 760. Its the 2nd best from evga.

Thanks again for all your help guys and gals
 
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