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Issue with updating Intel X25-M firmware?

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Ok so the ISO update tool from Intel's site doesn't really work properly to begin with for me. The Free DOS tool they are using in that boot image just craps out for me with a command.com error. No mater I sold that problem by making my own boot image on a USB stick and booting from it and running the iSSDFUT.exe firmware update tool myself. Everything seemed to go fine but upon rebooting I seem to have the same firmware version as before. Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox is reporting it as version 2cv102hd, which is the same as it was before the update. IS this still the latest firmware version for the X25-M 80GB?
 
I don't think that's the latest version -- you have the same BIOS as I do, and I bought mine (the 120Gb version) in late March.

I downloaded the update and the flash utility, but thus far have not had the courage to go further. Apart from not having the benchmark scores of OCZ owners, everything has been working perfectly and I've been hesitant to mess with it.

I'm guessing that the last four characters are the firmware version, as it says that the latest should be 02M3.
 
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stahlhart said:
I don't think that's the latest version -- you have the same BIOS as I do, and I bought mine (the 120Gb version) in late March.

I downloaded the update and the flash utility, but thus far have not had the courage to go further. Apart from not having the benchmark scores of OCZ owners, everything has been working perfectly and I've been hesitant to mess with it.

I'm guessing that the last four characters are the firmware version, as it says that the latest should be 02M3.
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Yeah I've just always liked messing around with hardware, you learn a lot this way! I don't need to update mine either. I'm going to play around with it a bit more.
 
An ISO is a disc image. In this case it's an image that contains a bootable image within it. This bootable image is using some form of free dos as the OS to boot. However this version of free dos seems to have issues. It fails to boot for me giving me a command.com error. I've searched the net and this is a known issue. You can get around it though by creating your own boot image and running the issdfut.exe util manually (either off a USB stick or CD), which is what I have done. Only the utility itself seems to fail.

So far I've tried 2 other things, I've set the SATA channel on which the SSD is from AHCI to IDE, and I've also physically removed the other HDDs from my system to isolate the SSD on its own. Neither of these seem to do anything.

Next thing I'm going to try is to update my motherboard BIOS to see if maybe there is an issue with the SATA controller firmware.
 
Okayy now I can't update my motherboard BIOS. WTF? Every BIOS I download and every BIOS tool I use claims the BIOS file is bad. I've downloaded from numerous Gigabyte file servers and tried more than one version of the BIOS.
 
Problemo solved! It seems the tool refuses to update the BIOS when the drive is connected to the SATA ports coming off the Marvel chip set. Connect them to the Intel ICH STAT ports and BINGO tool works 😛
 
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