SiI3114 SATA RAID5 BIOS 5.3.14 released yesterday.

[minchin]

Cool... thanks for the short tutorial....

I will mod the BIOS myself, but since this is my life-death machine, I have ordered a BIOS Savior just in case... looks like the bios isn't all that stable just yet.

I will post the mod bios if I get it tested successfully back in this forum.

[end0]

Thanks for the bios link, I was looking for that but you posted it for me .

 

Ok, step by step instructions for doing it yourself :

 

Extract your bios into a new folder.

 

For example:

NF4LD406.BIN

 

Rename this to 1.bin, or don't but my example I'll be doing that because it's more simple.

 

Now I don't have batches for this bios, because the offsets are diff :, kinda sucks.

Not a biggy, this is easy, and I will step you through it.

 

Copy cbrom to the dir.

Mak sure this is CBROM V2.15, and no other ver of that.

You can get this file from previous links I posted.

 

Type:

cbrom 1.bin /d

 

There is a bit to many files in this darn bios for my liking...

Ohwell.

 

What you're looking for is a pci rom module, or other, but it's gonne be pci for this bios.

PCI ROM, for example.

 

Here's what you look for specicfly:

 

10. PCI ROM[C] 0F000h(60.00K) 07469h(29.10K) 5216.bin

 

That's the sata rom module.

 

Now type:

cbrom 1.bin /pci RELEASE

 

From that you get this:

 

Press c, for the 5216 rom, then press enter or return.

 

What it looked like:

 

F:DOCUME~1ADMINI~1DesktopNF4LD406>cbrom 1.bin /pci RELEASE

CBROM V2.15 ©Award Software 2001 All Rights Reserved.

PCI ROM - - - [A] : NVRAID.ROM

PCI ROM - - - : NVPXES.NIC

PCI ROM - - - [C] : 5216.bin

Enter a choice:c

[PCI-C] ROM is release

 

Now type, to make sure:

cbrom 1.bin /d

 

No more pci rom c .

 

Now to add the new sata rom...

 

Copy the 60k ver of the new sata rom, this is the embedded ver, into the dir.

Ie, 5314.bin.

Not the others, like:

b5314.bin

Or:

r5314.bin

 

Now type:

cbrom 1.bin /pci 5314.bin

 

The output will look like this:

CBROM V2.15 ©Award Software 2001 All Rights Reserved.

Adding 5314.bin ....... 48.0%

 

Now...

One last check.

 

Type:

cbrom 1.bin /d

 

You should see this at the end of the output:

15. PCI ROM[C] 0F000h(60.00K) 07351h(28.83K) 5314.bin

 

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Allways re-check it at the end, allways.

 

I did'nt wanna doit for you because I'm not 100% stable right now, plus my room is hot at the moment.

 

I would like to know something, I just did this procedure sucessfully with my Venus board, but I just wanted to know, does the order of this stuff in the bios matter ? like see how the new rom is added to 15, would it hurt to unload the stuff above it, and then put it back in order ?

[end0]

Well, I managed to figure it out, and replaced the old Silicon Image 3114 ROM with the new 5.3.1.4 ROM, and put everything back in order.

 

 

For anyone that has a DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 SLI-DR Venus motherboard and wants the latest 2006/04/06 BIOS with the latest Silicon Imagine 3114 ROM 5.3.1.4 built into it, you can grab it here.

[Pyr0]

wow, thanks

i was considering trying this, but you just saved me the trouble

is this using the original bios from dfi or tony's modded 0406?

have you tested the new bios yet?

[end0]

This is using the latest Official(Non-Beta) 06/04/2006 BIOS.

The Sil3114 ROM was version 5.2.1.6 before I upgraded it to 5.3.1.4

Haven't been able to test it yet, as I have alot of data to move and fix up on my Sil3114(Raid1 Array), but I followed all instructions and assume it works fine.

[Pyr0]

i've just flashed to your updated version and everything seems to be working great

 

thanks again

[end0]

Good to hear it works fine, I was 100% positive it would.

Did you use the latest Sillicon Image drivers with that ?

[Pyr0]

yup, sure did

although at the moment i'm just using my hitachi's as singles on the silicon ports, but i'll prolly play with raid sometime soon if/when i get some more drives

[end0]

Good news

Ive had some trouble with my Raid1 Array on the Sil3114 Controller, basically sometimes the array gets out of sync and has to rebuild which takes a couple of hours and slows access time read/write down very significantly, and im unsure why, because the drives are like identical, same batch and same firmware and same day of manufacture, so maybe this will fix my issues, I will be re-formatting my pc this week comming so ill find out soon enough.

 

Im suprised how easy modding a BIOS is, im pretty confident doing it now, so don't be suprised if you see some modded BIOS'es comming your way

[soundx98]

Pyr0, what did you flash with out of curiousity? winflash or DOS?

[Pyr0]

so don't be suprised if you see some modded BIOS'es comming your way

 

hehe, nice one

 

 

Pyr0, what did you flash with out of curiousity? winflash or DOS?

 

hey Crazy i used winflash x64 m8

[deeveedee]

I just tried the modified INF619 BIOS (5.3.14 SATA BIOS) with my Infinity NFII Ultra. Following the BIOS update, system won't boot XP SP2 off of the SATA drive. I tried booting XP with and without the XP sata drivers installed. Didn't try the MBR fix. I'm sticking with TMOD's 5.0.64 modded 6/19 BIOS. If anyone has had any luck getting the 5.3.14 SATA BIOS to work with the Infinity NFII Ultra, I'd be curious to know what you did to get it to work.

 

DFI Infinity NFII Ultra Rev. A

AMD XP 3200+ Barton 400FSB 512K L2 Cache

BIOS 6/19/2004 with 5.0.64 SATA BIOS

2x Corsair 512MB PC3200 2-3-3-6 (Total 1 GB)

XION 600 Watt ATX2.0 Power Supply

GEFORCE FX5200 128MB AGP 8x

Western Digital 250GB SATA Drive 16MB Cache

Windows XP Pro SP2