Dear Fernando,

You seem to be doing an amazing job here. Thanks for your time on helping everybody finding solutions to their issues.
I actually don't know if my question is pertinent or even if a solution is possible, but here I go:

I previously owned a Dell Inspiron 14z 5423 that had the "Intel Rapid Storage" option in the SATA control options of its BIOS. The performance with iRST was really, really good and I thought I'd like to take advantage of that with my new rig.

I have recently changed laptops and my system is as follows:

Avell Custom Computers (www.avell.com)
Intel Core i5 4200m @2.50GHz
Intel series 8 Chipset Family
8Gb Kingston Dual Channel
NVidia Geforce 750M
1TB HGST HDD @7200rpm
32GB mSATA Samsung card
Insyde H2O Bios version 3.7

What I understand until now:

- The 32Gb eSATA card is visible in the BIOS and it is working
- The BIOS only gives me IDE and AHCI support
- I have recently upgraded to Windows 10
- The bios gives me an option to use Intel Smart Start technology, but I've never had one single good experience with it whenever I tried using it before
- I've installed the Intel drivers and Intel Rapid Storage software, it identifies both the HDD and mSATA but it does not give me the option to Accelerate (obviously because I cannot set up the RAID array without the BIOS option).

The question: is it possible to utilize a custom BIOS ROM that would give me the RAID option so I could create the array between the storage units to enable iRST?
If not, is there any other RAID-like software that could give me the same benefits?

Thanks for your attention!

Chico Salvador

Would like to make an addon:

in Windows, assuming you are using win10 pro,

you can create a raid 0 or raid 1 using software raid; (supposing that this function has been keeped from win7/win8.1)

however, it cannot be done if one of the devices involved is the boot device.

Anyway,as I can see, you have a mSATA boot device (very small) and a 1Tb storage unit;

even if you could be able to make up a raid,
you would have a weird 64Gb volume with strange performance.

Should change everything on the storage side, and pick up a 256Gb SSD.

bye

Hi Fernando,

My motherboard is MSI Z77A-GD65 (chipset Intel® Z77)
Last bios 10.11 includes :

Intel Raid 11.5.0.1582
Intel ME 8.1.50.1456

You can upload newer versions because I have this trouble ?

1.

Zitat

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FWUpdlcl64 -f me8.bin
Cannot locate hardware platform identification
Error 8734: Unknown or Unsupported Platform

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2. MMTool

After loading BIOS --> Replace --> Link Preset Vendor only 8086,282a

modified bios does not allow to load mainboard .

BIOS Z77A-GD65
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Help me ?

OK

I have a few questions :

1. Upload new firmware SATA/RAID will not damage the acting raid ?

2. My system Windows 10 Pro x64 , controller RAID v 14.6.0.1029 date 27.07.2015

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2822 and firmware v 11.5.0.1582

Which version is best for i Z77 chipset ?

Unfortunately something wrong :(
1. Open MMTools --> Load Image --> Open E7751IMS.AB0 , file loaded OK .
2. Replace --> Browse --> Open 8086-2822_v13102126.bin --> Link Present at 8086,282a --> Replace , OK
3. Save Image as --> new.fd

The length of each file is the same . ( 8 388 608 bits )
When trying to load a new bios, the computer freezes.
Upgrade I tried to upload the BIOS (Utility , pendrive )

What am I doing wrong ?

PS. BIOS orginal 10.11

Ad.1 Yes . Link Present Vendor 8086 Device ID 282a --> MMTool "Option ROM with Vendor ID and Device ID exists"

Ad.2 Renamed modded BIOS ,to the original name.

Yes . File renamed to the E7751IMS.AB0

I'll try again tomorrow.

@plutomaniac
@Fernando

Yes , it works ! :)





Now try the same with the newer version?