I have found with the dos file that if you have an nvidia card installed it screws up the GUI, Thus makes it blank.
So if you have onboard do the switch, this is supposed to work.
IF NOT :
And you have a blank screen do this :
1.Go into bios and make sure AHCI is enabled even if you are in Raid.
2.Reboot into dos disk and wait for loading to finish / blank screen or blank GUI.
3.Press Y TWICE and wait for it to stop flicking around usually a minute or so, then press Y again, it should take you into dos mode.
4. Power off, restart and you should be flashed / updated to latest version.
5. If you have raid / two drives still make sure you are in AHCI But just repeat 2 and 3 then power off before rebooting back into bios to put drives back into Raid, no need to power off after first drive flash as per 4. your just doing it twice over.
Finally its important that you power off once finished this enables the firmware to kick into place.

I have done it , and its worked a treat , non destructive, Put back into raid with no problems.

HI, i have tried firmware update on W7 64 RAID 0 SSD 840 PRO 256GB using the SAMSUNG CD bootable ISO image method.
Hardware: (ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE) bios 1908, Core Intel i7-3770K
I have one Nvidia GTX 670 and onboard Intel GUI is deactivate (at bios level).

On this experience i have never get a blank screen but a totally unreadable text/menus and sub menus (like a 3D display without a pair of glass..) on the screen (Samsung Syncmaster F2380).

I have had to guess what should be the text/menu.
I can say that the only thing i have done was to click Y key, not twice but multiple times (may be more than 8 times, i have not logged in my memry..).
Pressing the Y key is the only thing to do for the process to progress step after step.
The most important is to observe the flicking submenu and wait for the stop flicking and press Y key, wait and observe..
if nothing happen press Y again , and so on until you feel the 2 SSD firmware have been updated.
Yes no need to power off after the 1st SSD flash.
When you see the system is coming back finally under DOS , you POWER OFF.
Then as explain in previous threats your restablish the RAID setting at Bios Sata level.
Yes, booted fine at once W7 64 - no data los !!!!
TRIMCHECK replied OK without need an external TRIM command.
However, Performance seems to downgrade (ANVIL PRO score downgraded from 9068 to 8764).
Any feedback on your side about performance issue ?

Hi Fernando,
I agree with you, 3% less performance is peanuts.
Yes, this is not an issue because a complex software machine such as W7 or W8 has variable performance from one hour to the next.
This was only a first observation i have done after the firmware upgrade.
About TRIMCHECK OK may be the new firmware improved the thing... ?

Do you have seen somewhere what are the fixes and improvements of this new firmware vs the previous version ?
100PIER

Fernando,
What is DAS function ??

I have done again ten times the TRIMCHECK test and got each time OK (i wait only 10 sec after step 1). So, it is very strange you get a different result..
Main difference seems you use W8 64 and me W7 64.
I use iRST V 12.6.0.1033 in couple with 11.0.1339 OROM RAID because on my ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE the Bios flashback is 'dead', so it was not possible for me to flash the last modded Bios 1908 with 12.6.0.1867 OROM RAID.

On RAID 0 performance i have done again the ANVIL PRO test , but after a 'verify' scan started from Intel "iastorui" Windows application , and after a TRIM command issued from bench/trim anvil option menu and finally got the better score (9094) result compared to previous firmware version tests (i have tried to attach the screenshoot but 'uploading...' function seems endless and not working on the forum..).
100PIER

Zitat von 100PIER im Beitrag #7

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What is DAS function ??

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G'day.

I have a couple of 256GB 840 pro in RAID-0 on Win7 x64.

I just tried to update my firmware using Fernando's method above and didn't have much success.

Firstly, the screen display was so garbled and that it was pretty much unreadable. I switched to my integrated graphics to sort that out.

Secondly, the update failed on both drives with a "timeout on device" error. I tried a couple of times, rebooting between attempt but no luck.

Has anyone seen this before and more importantly, know what I can do about it, short of pulling the drives out and using magician in another machine?

Edit: In case it's relevant, I'm on an Asus p8z68-v-pro gen3 using garikfox's bios which includes Fernando' trim OROM.

Cheers
John

Hi JohnM,

You are not alone. I also can't update my single 840 pro on a similar (p8z68-v gen3 non-pro) motherboard.

Let me repost my post from another forum about the situation:

Zitat

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I can not update firmware on my 840 Pro... Although I succesfully flashed the previous version when it came out.

Magician downloads it, but it gives up with similar message to the following: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/2945...irmware-samsung

I compare it binary with manually downloaded update, it's identical, both the .Zip and the unpacked file.

Flash when booting to Iso burned to CD also fails, says flashing failed due to (drive?) timeout. (The screen is not garbled, ATI HD7750 here).

It is AHCI, I even lowered my overclock (set to default)... I don't know what to do. I will try previous version of Magician, I think it allowed manually selecting a file.

Edit: The drive works perfectly, no bad blocks or something, SMART is flawless. I use latest stock BIOS on my motherboard (meaning not upgraded Intel OROM module/s) and latest Intel drivers... But the failing flash from CD baffles me.

Edit2: I have updated Intel MEI firmware... Could that be it? But, on the other hand, it was also updated when I flashed the previous Samsung firmware...

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I'm just about to uninstall Samsung Magician 4 and try with previous version. Will post my results.

GL

Failed through Magician 3.2. I created a bootable USB stick and went through that... Started updating, but it took a very long time, so I didn't have nerves to stand there and watch it all the time... I left the room. When I came back, it had exited to DOS, so I shut down the computer. On the next boot... The firmware still is 4B0Q.

Here is the log from Magician:

18052013/02:51:51:026:	UNKNOWN	MAGICIANGUI	*************************SAMSUNG SSD MAGICIAN STARTED***********************
18052013/02:52:29:581:	INFO	FWUPDATE	Total Number of chunks : 2048
18052013/02:52:29:581:	INFO	FWUPDATE	Ready to download firmware chunk 1 of 2048.
18052013/02:52:29:581:	ERROR	FWUPDATE	IOCTL IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT for Firmware Download
18052013/02:52:29:581:	ERROR	FWUPDATE	Unable to download firmware for disk 0.
18052013/02:52:29:581:	ERROR	FWUPDATE	Firmware download operation failed on S12RNEACB26833Z SSD.
 
18052013/02:52:29:581:	ERROR	FWUPDATE	Error Downloading the FW Update on Windows.
 
 

@JohnM On that "garbled screen", didn't update as i don't need it but i i know that symptom from Secure Erase too. There was a command line option i could use to start the tool with a clear screen.

@GrofLuigi Well, the error just shows the image couldn't be downloaded. May some firewall blocked Magician?

@both: You could try to disconnect and reconnect the sdd after the cd/usb-stick is loading. Else if you just used Magician to burn to CD/copy to usb you could also use other methods (burn iso with any recording-tool, resp copy with "ISO to USB" or simply google with "iso" and "CD/"USB stick" depending what you want to use).

Magician is unblocked on the firewall (I use third-party firewall). It downloads and unpacks the firmware OK (as I said, I binary compare it to a manualy downloaded FW, they are identical). I think the software meant to say it can't upload the firmware to the drive.

I tried both from CD and from USB stick, it also failed. That baffles me.

Additionally, now Magician fails its "authenticate" feature (which previously worked OK). Here's the log:

18052013/16:40:14:035:	UNKNOWN	MAGICIANGUI	*************************SAMSUNG MAGICIAN STARTED***********************
18052013/16:40:18:285:	ERROR	SYSINFO	OS:	Microsoft Windows 7 Professional ,	English (United States),	6.1.7601,	Service Pack 1,	64-Bit,	0
18052013/16:40:18:410:	ERROR	SYSINFO	DISK:	Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series,	DXM04B0Q,	S12RNEACB26833Z,	1,	0,	0,	0,	1,	PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C02&SUBSYS_844D1043&REV_05\3&11583659&0&FA,	3
18052013/16:40:18:845:	ERROR	SYSINFO	DISK:	SAMSUNG HD103SJ,	1AJ10001,	S246J9CZ703475,	1,	0,	0,	1,	0,	PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C02&SUBSYS_844D1043&REV_05\3&11583659&0&FA,	2
18052013/16:40:19:055:	ERROR	SYSINFO	IDE:	Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller,	Intel Corporation,	Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller,	12.6.0.1033,	PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C02&SUBSYS_844D1043&REV_05\3&11583659&0&FA,	1,	3
18052013/16:40:19:095:	ERROR	SYSINFO	SCSI:	JMicron JMB36X Controller,	JMicron Technology Corp.,	JMicron JMB36X Controller,	1.17.65.11,	PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2362&SUBSYS_84601043&REV_10\4&20221DEA&0&00E3,	0,	169080760
18052013/16:40:19:095:	ERROR	SYSINFO	SCSI:	DVDFab Virtual Drive,	dvdfab.com,	DVDFab Virtual Drive,	1.4.0.0,	ROOT\SCSIADAPTER\0000,	20,	169080760
18052013/16:40:19:140:	ERROR	SYSTEM TUNING	CSysTuning:QueryStatus_Ser: Failed to get handle to CiSvc Service ;Err code: 1060
18052013/16:40:19:140:	ERROR	SYSTEM TUNING	CSysTuning:QueryStatus_Ser: Failed to get handle to WSearch Service ;Err code: 1060
18052013/16:40:19:140:	ERROR	SYSTEM TUNING	CSysTuning:QueryStatus_Ser: Failed to get handle to SDRSVC Service ;Err code: 1060
18052013/16:41:04:720:	INFO	SSD VALIDATION	 ValidateSamsungSSD is started for the selected Disk.
18052013/16:41:04:720:	INFO	SSD VALIDATION	 Select Device Number : 0
18052013/16:41:04:720:	INFO	SSD VALIDATION	 after the SSD validation initialization for the Select Device Number : 0
18052013/16:41:04:720:	INFO	SSD VALIDATION	 after the SSD validation payload creation
18052013/16:41:04:720:	ERROR	SSD VALIDATION	IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH Failed for DV. Error Code = 24
18052013/16:41:04:720:	ERROR	SSD VALIDATION	Write Log SMART failed for DV.
18052013/16:41:04:720:	ERROR	SSD VALIDATION	Unable to execute S.M.A.R.T WRITE LOG Command
18052013/16:41:04:720:	ERROR	SSD VALIDATION	SMART WRITE Log failed for validating the SSD
 
 

The errors might be caused by Intel RST driver (v12.6.0.1033), but then why would it fail from CD/USB boot? I even tried powering off the computer, pulling the wall plug, waiting few minutes and booting straight to CD - no luck.

GL

Hm, you do have CSM enabled and UEFI Boot disabled? You have some setting to save options in BIOS? Then you could try that, load defaults and try again.