GIGABYTE Modified Bios

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does anyone know how to enable the dynamic storage accelerator in the irst UI, it supposed to be there but never shows up, well, maybe once or twice but gone again after a reboot. What about the 12.8 irst driver, does it work? that supposed to be win 8 driver?

AFAIK DSA requires ACPI support and your BIOS does not have that so no DSA.

[markz_xoka]

GIGABYTE Modified Bios X58a UD7 v.1

Hi guys!
So I've been delaying for some time asking your help.

I've to thank some of you , for helping me out with Bioses Modding.
Learned a lot and lately doing it myself.

[boe323]

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AFAIK DSA requires ACPI support and your BIOS does not have that so no DSA.

IS that something that can be added, as a mod.

[stasio]

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IS that something that can be added, as a mod.

X79 BIOS support ACPI 2.0a.

[boe323]

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X79 BIOS support ACPI 2.0a.

Does that mean that dynamic storage acceleration supposed to be working then?. I did read some file from intel that says dsa option not being set in windows 8

[stasio]

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Does that mean that dynamic storage acceleration supposed to be working then?. I did read some file from intel that says dsa option not being set in windows 8

As I know,Intel's Dynamic Storage Accelerator needs to be enabled in the firmware (SSD) and also in Intel's RST software/Performance.
Supose to works in Win 8 as well.

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IS that something that can be added, as a mod.

Idk, maybe.

DSA is basically adjusting C-states depending on Disk I/O load. Stopping the higher CPU C-States during SSD load can reduce latency as you probably have already noticed in bench testing with C-States enabled/disabled.

Wish I could read Chinese as they seem to have a lot of good info. Here is an old article with google translation

ACPI 2.0a is just a specification, some 10 years or more old now.

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As I know,Intel's Dynamic Storage Accelerator needs to be enabled in the firmware (SSD) and also in Intel's RST software/Performance.
Supose to works in Win 8 as well.

I'm not sure what you mean about DSA needing to be "enabled in the firmware (SSD)", unless you mean the firmware supports HIPM.

DSA is enabled/disabled in my ASRock Z87 board's UEFI/BIOS. DSA does work in Windows 8.

[Mseirco]

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Hello, at last, i flash my x79 ud3 bios f14mod 2 to the f14 mod 3 !

Everything work great BUT the bios file inside the archive of f14 mod 3 is nammed, ""F14MOD2"" Why mod 2? just forgot to rename the file?? The file contain all new feature of mod 3 i hope!

[virtualfred]

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Hello, at last, i flash my x79 ud3 bios f14mod 2 to the f14 mod 3 !

Everything work great BUT the bios file inside the archive of f14 mod 3 is nammed, ""F14MOD2"" Why mod 2? just forgot to rename the file?? The file contain all new feature of mod 3 i hope!

Hi, you're right i missed renaming file, but it's really the mod3 from 08082013 .

[boe323]

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I'm not sure what you mean about DSA needing to be "enabled in the firmware (SSD)", unless you mean the firmware supports HIPM.

DSA is enabled/disabled in my ASRock Z87 board's UEFI/BIOS. DSA does work in Windows 8.

So its a ssd tweak?, not for hdds?.
EDIT: I updated my intel inf files, forced an overwrite, and now I have 2 acpi drivers instead of 1, after reboot dsa option is in the rst UI, although, I havent rebooted yet so I don't know if it will stay, sorry, I know its of topic, apologies.

[Mseirco]

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Hi, you're right i missed renaming file, but it's really the mod3 from 08082013 .

Ok thank you for confirm me! ;)

[Bongkie]

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Just successfully flashed my Bios with F21 Mod.

Hope this will solve my Black Screen issue. This is the only problem i got.

stasio and virtu, Thanks again

[Rewl]

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GA-Z77X-UD5H F15-mod (don't think the modded part is at fault here though) is weird, BCLK setting is gone and frequency down to 99.77Mhz; MEI also seems to be gone, it doesn't even show up in device manager;
So i went back to F16c-mod6, updated ME fw manually and all is fine.

[stasio]

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^I already today,replaced OP with F16c.