Hello everyone,

I am not sure if anyone can help me with this. I have been trying to get trim support for my RAID 0 SSDs for the past 2 days but it seems to fail at every turn. I used CBrom on the latest bios from gigabyte (FK) for my board and then tried to use one of the modded trim roms (10.5.1.1070 was the closest trim modded rom to my version) to replace the one that was currently in the bios. After booting it always fails and my bios reverts back to factory. I am not sure if I am getting the versions confused or if this is just not possible for my board or maybe I am going about this situation all wrong . Any help on this would be much appreciated!

Thank you!

Thank you for the reply Fernando!

Here is the link to the latest set of Bios drivers for my board [URL=http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3265#bios] with FK being the latest.

When running CBrom it looks like the PCI roms are all located under the Minit Module (see attached picture[img][/img]).

If I am doing this correctly (Which your guide on modding the Award bios was very helpful) the rom I would be replacing would be PCI Rom[B]. When extracting this and putting it into the Hex editor I come up with version 10.6.0.109.1. This next part is where I might be misunderstanding the correct version to replace it with. When looking at your list of roms located on Option ROMs for SATA AHCI and RAID Controllers on the forum the two versions closest with RAID 0 Trim support are 10.5.1.1070 and 11.2.0.1527, after trying both my bios still reverts back to factory settings.

Thank you for taking the time to look into my problem!

Hey Fernando!

I gave it a shot but it was a no go . I have to use the @bios feature in order to update my bios which shouldn't have any impact but just thought I would mention it just in case it meant something. Usually when I update the bios it will tell me to restart and then its not long before I see the logo screen and it is back up and running. What happens every time I try to use a modified bios is that it takes forever to get to the logo screen. After that it runs into an error and than reloads the factory bios. Maybe the Revision 1.7 boards just don't like anything modified. Is there anything else I can do for my Raid 0 to get TRIM working? Or possibly a manual TRIM option?

Thank you working on that file for me!

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #6

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@ Newbi:

Thanks for your report. it is a pity, that you obviously are not able to flash a modded BIOS.
Nevertheless I have prepared something for you, which may work.
This is what I have done:

1. As first step I modified the Intel RAID ROM v10.6.0.1091, which is within your original BIOS, to support the TRIM in RAID0 feature.
2. Then I corrected the checksum of the file.

So this slightly altered Intel RAID ROM module has

• exactly the same size (and numbers of bytes) and
• exactly the same checksum (= 0)

as the original module of the original BIOS (no checksum correction by CBROM is required).

This especially modded Intel RAID ROM module v10.6.0.1091 is attached.

Good luck!

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Hi,

Just tried flashing the modified BIOS using your special modified v10.6.0.1091 OROM via Giga-Byte Q-Flash and I reiceve a checksum error. Interesting that flashing via Windows(@BIOS) works but through Q-Flash it doesn't.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #9

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Zitat von endo im Beitrag #8

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Just tried flashing the modified BIOS using your special modified v10.6.0.1091 OROM via Giga-Byte Q-Flash and I reiceve a checksum error. Interesting that flashing via Windows(@BIOS) works but through Q-Flash it doesn't.

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Please post a screenshot showing the BIOS modules after having opened the original and the modded BIOS.
Another question:
Why did you try to flash a BIOS containing this "special" Intel RAID ROM v10.6.0.1091? According to >this< table it should be possible to get the much better TRIM in RAID0 modded Intel RAID ROM v11.2.0.1527 properly working with an ASUS P6T DeLuxe V2.
By the way: The topic title is misleading in your case. Shall I customize the title to "Intel X58 Chipsets: Problems to get TRIM in RAID0 support"?

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Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #11

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Thanks for the screenshots, which verify, that the Intel RAID ROM of the original BIOS is located above the sensitive module GV3 (named PPMINIT.ROM) and that the BIOS tool cbrom32_198 has inserted the desired Intel RAID ROM module beyond the same sensitive module.
So I think, that the "Invalid BIOS Image" message has been caused by the movement of the exact location of the module GV3.
The consequence is, that you cannot take the easy way by simply replacing the original RAID ROM module by an updated one.
If you want to update the Intel RAID ROM module, you will have to do it according to >this< guide. The most important thing is, that the location of the sensitive modules (MINIT and GV3) will stay unchanged by the modding procedure.

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