Crosshair V Formula - New Bios out! Version 1102

[chrisk2305]

Hi,

there is a new Bios available for the Crosshair V!

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD...mula/#download

Does anybody have a changelog for this? Improved system stability doesn't say that much ;-)

Hopefully they built in a new RAID Option Rom.

Cheers,

Christian

[FiNAS]

Thanks for the update!
The Raid option ROM is the same as the prior versions.

This bios works as well ( overclocking included ) as all the others on a 1100T .

[rogue071]

yes it would be nice to know exactly what this bios update does. "increase system stability" doesnt say too much. i wish they would include some details....

[BlackSG5]

there's even a new chipset driver! i wonder if this is in conjunction with the microsoft hotfixes?

[garikfox]

No, Its still a very old driver, Theres only one driver for the chipset that our boards use and its the USB-Filter driver, Its for USB 1.0 not showing up in the add-remove icon.

Even the latest driver 11.12 from AMD currently has no drivers in the driver package for the southbridge driver, First time ive seen this happen. I opened up the ASUS latest one and the USB filter driver is dated from 2010. The driver 11.11 SB driver had a date of 8th month of 2011.

So another words we dont need to install any chipset drivers. Unless you didnt pre-install the AHCI driver upon WIndows 7 installation.

I did look in the latest driver package 8.95 aka 12.x and it includes a USB-Filter driver from the 12th month of 2011. I read the RTF inside it and it only mentions the USB-Filter driver being used on the SB800 series, So our SB900 series doesnt even need them.

The only driver I use is the AMD SATA Controller driver. And the latest on that is version 1.2.1.321 and its dated 10/28/2011

[chrisk2305]

i was really hoping that they included a new raid option rom :-(

[p4spooky]

i was really hoping that they included a new raid option rom :-(

I have modified 1102 with the most current option rom I found from MSI 990FX-GD80 Bios Version 11.8

Old (Asus 1102) Version: 3.2.1540.44
Updated Bios AMD Option Rom: 3.3.1540.14

I just ordered this board and its on the way. I have no way to test the modified bios. I am not sure what the forum rules are but I am happy to share the modified bios if someone is willing to try it. Send me a PM.

[FiNAS]

so, p4spooky sent me his moded bios ( with raid rom 3.3.1540.14 ) and it is working great.

[p4spooky]

so, p4spooky sent me his moded bios ( with raid rom 3.3.1540.14 ) and it is working great.

GREAT to hear. Thanks for your feedback.

Can you do some benchmark with the new ROM and confirm all the caching/write forward options are now available?


Since this modified bios is confirmed working, I am posting a link to my bios. Please remember flashing involves risk (bricking your board, loss of data on your RAID array etc.). Have a recovery option in place before flashing.

1102 - Updated AMD Option ROMs

Changes Made:

1. Updated AMD Option ROM to 3.3.1540.14 (Source: MSI 990FXA-GD80)
2. Updated AsMedia Option ROM to 0.951 (Source: MSI X79A-GD65)

* - Includes Asus DOS Flash Tool

Please provide feedback on RAID performance with updated ROMs

[FiNAS]

sure, can you tell me how to check the caching/write forward options ? I currently have port 1 and 2 in raid0 ( two intel ssd's ) and port 3 and 4 in raid raid0 ( two 1Tb samsung hdd's ). Port 5 and 6 are conected to atapi devices. I cannot change any option in the current raid volumes. I think I'll remove the 1TB hdd's and replace them with other disks I have around, do another array and see if I am presented with caching options..
will post back.