Wiper tool and Crucial M225, Nforce 680i

Allattar

Allattar

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Here is the problem.
I am trying to run the wiper tool on my M225. The wiper tool does not find this drive however.

System
E8500
4GB Ram
Nforce 680i
ATI 4870
X-fi Fatality
Win 7 64bit

The drive is running firmware 1517, I know 1819 is available but not sure about updating the firmware. Apparently it can cause performance drops with inconsisten TRIM commands.

I am trying to run the wiper tool with Admin permissions.

What bios settings should I be using on the 680i for optimal performance of this drive, and for the wiper tool to find it.

Anyone had a similar problem, and fixed it?

Thanks
 
I'm not sure, most people tend to have Intel chipsets at the moment.

One option would be to set your controller to IDE and see if it runs then.

I found this elsewhere, so don't take it as gospel, and it applies to recognising the firmware on OCZ drives - but it seems that the drives aren't always recognised if you're using the nVidia drivers - maybe this applies to Wiper too. In your case substitute flasher with wiper below :)

If you have attempted to upgrade the firmware but the flasher can not detect the drive, this is because of the Nvidia drivers. There are two ways to solve this issue.

The first way I would try is changing the driver from the Nvidia one to the Microsoft one. Go to Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. You should see the device 'NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller', or maybe a few of them depending on how many devices you have installed. Go to properties on each one and for every Vertex drive, do the following. Go to Driver -> Update Driver -> 'Install from a specific list or location (Advanced)' -> 'Don't search. I will choose the driver to install.' Select 'Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller' and click 'Next'. Click 'Finish' and reboot. Upon reboot, try to run the flaster again and see if it detects the drive.

If the flasher does not detect the drive, then you can try to uninstall all the installed Nvidia drivers. You can use nVidia Nasty File Remover or use another program if you wish. Again reboot and try again with the flasher. If the flasher does not detect the drive, then you have two options. You can reinstall Windows on the hard drive that you are using to flash the Vertex (make sure you do not install any drivers once you have installed Windows). The other option is to use another PC (or a friends if you do not have another one), which does not have an Nvidia chipset
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If it works, you could then reinstall the drivers, assuming they are giving you additional features/performance over the default ones.
 
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