G skill Falcon Flash

gary996 · 29 Nov 2009 at 12:10

Whats the best way to flash this.
I have read it has to be drive 0 or it wont work. But it can't be the boot drive.
Well mine is drive 0 and it is my boot drive (win7 64bit RC) I want to install my retail Win7 and thought I would flash before hand.
Any help appreciated

Gary

gary996 · 30 Nov 2009 at 17:06

anyone

ChileanLlama · 30 Nov 2009 at 17:11

Is it this drive? http://www.gskill.com/products.php?index=124&c1=3&c2=6

You'd need to confirm - but it looks like an Indilinx based drive. Can you put the firmware on a bootable CD/USB and run it from DOS? That would comply with the requirements and that's how the OCZ and Crucial ones work.

[edit]BTW if it's 1819 firmware you're trying to flash it to, you might want to wait a bit. Whilst it supports TRIM it is known to have some serious degradation issues.

gary996 · 30 Nov 2009 at 20:48

Yes thats the one and yes was going to flash the 1819 firmware. If this 1819 is no good is there another coming soon??

Gary

ChileanLlama · 30 Nov 2009 at 21:09

I'm not sure, as I've not been following the saga lately, but I think they are looking at releasing another update.

Get yourself the Wiper tool (it's on the G Skill Support Forum) which is a manual run TRIM and you won't be missing out on anything

gary996 · 1 Dec 2009 at 20:28

Cheers budy

ChileanLlama · 1 Dec 2009 at 20:34

You're welcome Gary

Crucial have confirmed they've just received a new firmware from Indilinx for internal testing now - maybe another couple of weeks before it's released. So I'd expect G-Skill have received it as well. Definitely not worth flashing to 1819 for now