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I have an EP45 UD3P running the OS on RAID1 array on the Intel SATA jacks.
If I were to upgrade the the latest BIOS how will having RAID1 play into the mix?
If I were to upgrade the the latest BIOS how will having RAID1 play into the mix?
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Re: BIOS Upgrade Flashing & RAID1 ?
You will Simply need to reset the settings in your BIOS to RAID and maybe in the Intel RAID manager thing Ctrl + I or whatever it is. Its pretty painless.Lian Li PC-7F Chassis Black
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Re: BIOS Upgrade Flashing & RAID1 ?
Hi, And Thanks For Getting Back,
If I may ask you for some clarification.....
I have two tasks at hand. I want to upgrade my BIOS and I have just had one of my RAID1 disks fail in between my post and your reply.
If I update my BIOS and miss the initial boot screen into the setup and enable the ARRAY will I loose my Array and data? I did something like this before and lost it.
I need a we-bit of direction. What would you do?
I have never replaced a bad drive before. If I just swap it out with an identical drive will it auto rebuild the ARRAY?
Any comments, direction or links would be great.
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H WB Motherboard
Intel Ivy Bridge i7 3770K clocked @ 4.5GHz
16GB Kingston Hyper-X Genesis 2133 RAM
Water cooling by XSPC RASA RS240 Kit
Sapphire HD 6850 1GB DDR5 GPU
1TB - RAID1 setup with Western Digital 6GB/Sec Drives
Corsair HX750W Professional PSU
Windows 7 Professional (x64) Build 7601Comment
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Re: BIOS Upgrade Flashing & RAID1 ?
Check out steps 1 - 5 in the BIOS Flashing - A "How To ~ Qflash Guide" thread.
The information you want is near the end of the first post, just above the section:
Making a Bootable USB Flash Drive
I'll defer to the forum's experienced RAID users, but I think it's safe to say that you should perform your flash AFTER you have repaired the array.
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Re: BIOS Upgrade Flashing & RAID1 ?
Why can't you build your Raid array, then update your bios? Also +1 on the guide on bios flashing. I followed it for my first flash.Comment
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