Hello I'm new to this ROM stuff. I have always used the latest drivers (in this case I wish to use the new 13.5 driver on my GIGABYTE H97N-WIFI board).

1. Can this ROM be flashed to this board? Are there any chances of bricking the ROM module or something? I use only AHCI, not RAID.
2. Where are the instructions on how to flash?

Hi,

I have an EVGA SR-2 which contains a Marvell 9123 SATA-3 controller. Although the controller is built into the motherboard, it is logically a completely separate device, with it's own BIOS (i.e. separate BIOS not part of the motherboard main BIOS). I have successfully updated the firmware on it over time as newer versions became available in the first post on this thread. Thank you for providing these firmware updates.

Unfortunately, I am currently troubleshooting a BIOS compatibility issue, and am finding that my reference, sanity check, stock firmware (Marvell v1.0.0.1025) SR-2 works fine with a particular GPU, but the one with the updated Marvell firmware (1.0.0.1038) seems to have problems (motherboard BIOS configuration screen locks up as soon as you enter the BIOS setup). As far as I can tell, the Marvell firmware is the only difference between the motherboards, and the one with 1.0.0.1038 firmware works fine with multiple other GPUs. So I am figuring there must be some kind of a BIOS/firmware compatibility issue.

So, what I would like to do is extract the firmware from my reference motherboard, and flash that Marvell BIOS firmware to my other motherboard to downgrade it and get them both to be the same for further troubleshooting. But - I cannot seem to find any tools for extracting the firmware image from the Marvell SATA controller. The utility for flashing the firmware only seems to support writing the firmware, not reading it out. Is there an undocumented switch or a different utility that can be used to extract the Marvell SATA controller firmware from a controller?

Many thanks.

The RTSe listed on the rom page is different than the one That I posted when viewed in a hex editor. If you compare the listed one to mine you will see for yourself.

Hi Fernando!

I have a Zotac H67ITX-C-E Mainboard and i want to configure a RAID5 with 4x4TB hard disk drives.
IRST 10.1 doesn't support 4TB and i'm not able to get into RAID-menu..

is there any possibility to change that? I'm not pro in mod BIOS

greets shimply

thank you very much. so i "just" have to use steps 2. a)?
then it should work?

thanks, i will try this tomorrow.
the modded file is the "bios.bin" which i have to rename - am i right?

hi fernando!

just tried that and it worked!
thank you very very much for your help!