Hello. I have gigabyte EP45-DS5 motherboard with F12 bios. Couple days ago I put Xeon X5450 into my board. I have edited bios, NCPUCODE part of bios, and put new cpu microcode inside of my bios. CPU is now working without any problems but I wolud like to update AHCI bios to 1.2E version but I have very big problems. I try to insert ICHAAHCI.BIN and ICHARAID.BIN but when I replace that modules with new and save my bios that board want start. Than I have extracted and released all modules after problematic MINIT module but when I replace ICHAAHCI.BIN that is two lines before MINIT than my new bios want to start. When I replace all modules after MINIT module than board is working like normal. Here is list of my bios:

Thanks for your reply. I don't think that I will be able to build my custom rom by myself :-( . I must use cbrom155 for modules before MINIT module? I have all modules extracted including updated. Please can you or someone do it for me sensitive part of this mod?

Here is a fixed BIOS file. I have replaced all PCI modules with updated versions, plus added a dummy.bin to avoid MINIT relocation. Now you can re-add your microcodes and test the system. But Gigabyte has also posted a F13a, any reason to avoid it?

Thanks, I will do it now. F13 was very buggy for me and also I have wrong flash several times flashing f13 bios. Beta is beta, official is official.

If you change your mind or need it for some reason, here is F13a with the same updates.

Thanks, thanks, thanks :-) moded F12 with my xeon is working and boot time is lowered very much. I forgot, what is main difference f12 and f13?

There is no official changelog, but the changes are all over the place:



But if you meant between F12.mod and F13a.mod, there is no real changes apart from the official ones, the same 4 PCI modules have been updated to the latest version and a dummy.bin (different sizes, according to each file space) was added.

I am not using raid but I just tryed and found that raid is not working when I enable it in bios. Ahci 1.2e bios is displayed without CTRL+I option but no booting. I am using 1 SSD and 2x1TB HDD over ahci and when I select AHCI than my ssd is booting normaly.

Do you mean that the RAID boot menu is not appearing? Or that there is no boot in RAID mode?

I don't think you can easily switch to RAID boot without actually installing in RAID mode and having compatible RAID drivers.

Yes, raid boot menu is not appearing without CTRL+I option, only ahci 1.2e rom. I have 2 same 1TB HDD drives and I can create raid fields on it but I can't see raid option. Also when I select raid mode than my ssd want boot.

I don't have RAID experience, this is where Fernando is the guru. But is my impression that the RAID menu should appear only when pressing CTRL+I. If you see a screen with 11.2.0.1527 when pressing CTRL+I, then it is working. Your SSD can't boot in RAID mode without RAID drivers.

But this could be a size problem. I updated to the best version for your system, 11.2.0.1527 with TRIM, but it is almost twice the size of original OROM. You can try to lower the version of RAID ROM (ICHARAID.bin) with one from here. It should be safe to do it on your own now.

I think that only RAID MSM versions will work correctly. New version are RST and that version is no working for me. Because I have 1 ssd for system than it will not work in raid mode but I have also 2 x 1TB hard drives that will work. I will replace MSM RAID rom and try.

RAID MSM rom version 8.9.1.1002 is working

Hi Mdrazic, can you send me the final version of the BIOS file that you installed on this motherboard? I have a Xeon 5470, my boot is not fast, the RAID controller and AHCI do not go as it should. I'm interested in trying your version of the BIOS upgraded. Now I use a F13d version downloaded from the Internet and I do not know if it has included ncpumicrocode for my x5470 Xeon. Thanks in advance.