Good day.

Gigabyte has a new BIOS (F14b) for the motherboard I have, however it is a beta BIOS, but lists an updated AMD AHCI ROM.
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product...x?pid=3901#bios
(my current one comes up on the boot screen as 3.0.7 or 3.0.8, I am on bios F8)

I am hesitant to flash a beta bios to my board. Can anyone tell what version the AMD AHCI ROM is in the f14b bios? Hex editors and things are beyond my skills.

Thanks

Thanks Fernando

Much appreciated. Would I be correct in assuming that AMD ahci rom ver. 3.1.2.0 is also the most recent version?

Also I am using AHCI with a Plextor M3S 256GB ssd.

Edit - the reason why I have some hesitation with the beta bios, is that I am running an old phenomII cpu and some people on some forums say F8 is probably the best for phenomII cpus, and the newer bios's are better for Vishera based cpu's

After reviewing your bios mod guides, modding the gigabyte F8 bios to include the updated AMD roms would probably be too long/difficult for me to attempt. It's too bad motherboard makers didn't list a more comprehensive change log for their bios revisions. O well, I guess I can always flash it and if things get weird just revert back.

Regards
Jarrod

One last question.

I know NEC/Renesas has firmware that can be updated for their USB 3.0 chipsets. My Gigabyte board has two Etron EJ168 usb 3.0 chipsets.

Do usb 3.0 chips on the motherboard have a rom file? If so can the version be determined from the the content of the F14b BIOS shot you took? Is it possible to update these through a bios mod?

Edit - From the previous post, did gigabyte include the latest amd raid roms as well?

Edit #2 - From Gigabyte (different motherboard, same southbridge) - bios updated raid rom
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product...x?pid=4672#bios


Thanks
Jarrod

I posted the last link out of curiosity of what amd raid rom version was in that bios.

Thanks

My apologies for making you do the work and appearing lazy, and thank you for the help, it was appreciated.

I took the time and tried it for myself (took awhile to remember basic DOS commands lol it's been awhile)

I have one more question since I m running in AHCI mode with an SSD and Win7x64pro with the latest AMD rom, does it matter with I use the MS ahci driver or the AMD achi driver?

Thanks