Updating BIOS - RAID question

Craig321 · 29 Jun 2009 at 20:42

I need to update my BIOS so it includes support for the Q9550. I currently have a RAID 0 array set up on two 250GB hard drives.

Is there anything I need to watch out for/do before I do the upgrade? I don't want to go and corrupt my RAID array.

Thanks,
Craig.

Craig321 · 30 Jun 2009 at 13:51

Thanks very much

Craig321 · 30 Jun 2009 at 15:56

All done

Everything went smoothly. However, I had to get a floppy disk out as Q-flash wouldn't pick up the .Fxx (F14 in my case) file on my pen drive for some reason. It was formatted at FAT32 etc.

Craig.

Craig321 · 30 Jun 2009 at 17:24

It was, I checked that before I started Q-flash. The drive came up in Q-flash, but I couldn't see the BIOS file.

Craig321 · 1 Jul 2009 at 13:18

jbloggs said:
Even when seen by Q-Flash I have found on the odd occassion you need to play around a bit before it actually selects the flash drive and hence the file becomes visible on the right hand part of the window...

It was a bit strange really. It detected the pen drive as the "Floppy B Drive", the only way I know it was the pen drive is because of the size (3.73GB). However, for some reason the .F14 wouldn't show up.

I'll try again with a pen drive next time I update the BIOS, but it's all done for now

Diggsy said:
Ah, the trusty old floppy drive still showing it's worth

This is the only reason I have kept one in my system.

Yep, same here. I bought a floppy with my PC and have used it multiple times since

. They're slow and noisy, but they're brilliant for BIOS updates and bootable disks.