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Samsung EVO SSD and AMD Chipset

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olimazi

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Technical peoples of the world -

Has anyone had any luck updating their firmware on a Samsung EVO SSD on an AMD chipset setup? I'm currently on A85X.

According to the Magician manual AMD and Windows AHCI drivers are not supported.

The drive runs just fine - however trying to update the firmware is a no-go.
Through Magician it gives an error; via the bootable ISO cd I get massive errors.
I pretty much have given up - what a shame.

Also using Magician software to set up RAPID gets me nothing but stuttering.

Any insight would be appreciated.

olimazi
 
olimazi said:
The drive runs just fine - however trying to update the firmware is a no-go.
Through Magician it gives an error; via the bootable ISO cd I get massive errors.
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Just what are the 'massive errors' ?
I know you can do both secure erase & firmware updates via a boot CD/USB drive, since I have done so on AMD with AHCI enabled.
 
Cerb said:
Maybe try going back to IDE for a bit, to update it?
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That's what I have to do to update the firmware on my Plextor M3 drive. Not saying that's whats happening to the op but it is an issue with certain drives.

Edit:I should add that I also use an older Asus mb equipped with AMD's 880 series chipset.
 
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so to get back to ide from ahci do i just change it in the bios or do i have to change the registry key in win7?
tried switching off ahci in bios and booting the iso cd, but got errors (reading the partition).
i'm on a uefi system w/ gpt disk - maybe this is not supported by the freedos version samsung uses on their iso?
 
Make CD/Stick with update. Then go into BIOS, switch to IDE, reboot and update Firmware (without booting Windows) and after that, switch the BIOS back to AHCI. That should work, worked for me on my last build.
 
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EDIT: If this does not work on UEFI / GPT then please install the windows standard driver (msahci) in the hardware manager. The update works with this standard driver.
 
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