G1 Guerrilla mod bios

[odiebugs]

This is for anyone who can change the RST rom in the BIOS.


Have G1 Guerrilla with the F4D BIOS

Waiting for gig to add the new intel rst rom alpha rom is probably like waiting for it to rain gold.

To set up RAID, the BIOS has the 10.6 RST OROM

I would like someone to MOD the BIOS F4D to the newest rom 11.5.0.1347( which is here-

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel%20raid.htm

The Gig F4D bios is here-

http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3776#bios

I have tried to use Award editor, but no luck.

Please, any help would be greatly appreciated, or how to make it work.


I want to have TRIM in RAID.


I would love to buy the new lga 2011 gigabyte, but they went and used the Garbage marvell 9172, the 9182 is the only sata 3 controller besides the northbridge two sata 3.

Funny how all the 2011 boards have pci-e-3.0 but no 3.0 cpu support, but the 1155 has a cpu with 3.0 support but most boards are 2.0 and don't have a 9182.

The runaround is pretty sad.

[Acebmxer]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

Did you miss the sticky at the top of the forum? See here http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte...fied-bios.html. Its to late for me to do the mod now but I will do it for you tomorrow when I wake up.

[odiebugs]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

Did you miss the sticky at the top of the forum? See here http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte...fied-bios.html. Its to late for me to do the mod now but I will do it for you tomorrow when I wake up.

Ace, don't suppose you have a seeing eye dog for sale ?

Not sure how, but when I looked I only saw the model, giant list of models only and didn't see any of the updated info under them just models.

It was the first thing I checked, but I can't thank you enough, now I see all the info.


I feel bad, I could use the G1 Assassin, so if you MOD one before you see this, I will use the one you post.


Spent hours surfing, DL every tool, tried every tool.

Really can't thank you enough for helping, thought all was lost, if you have a site you would like a donation sent to, post it.

[Acebmxer]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

X58-G1.Guerrilla Bios F4d MOD
Update with...
IRST 11.5.0.1347
Jmicron 1.07.28
Marvell Bios Version 1.0.0.1033 / Firmware 2.2.0.1125
After flash is complete, shut down fully and switch off PSU, wait one minute and clear CMOS. Then turn on, boot to BIOS and load optimized and save/apply/reboot back to the BIOS. Once in the BIOS again set AHCI settings and Marvell Firmware mode to "Force", then save/apply/reboot and let it load through to windows, before that happens Marvell Firmware will update and board will reboot.*
mb_bios_g1.guerrilla_MOD_6_16_12_f4d

Download link can be found on the first page of the Bios Mod Thread.

[odiebugs]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

Ace, again, can't thank you enough for taking your time to mod this, really appreciate it.

Wasn't joking, if you have a site that takes donations, would be happy to donate to.

I'll check back once in a while to see if you posted any.

P.S. Love that stang, and that's my favorite color, not sure how close it is to dark blue pearl, but looks like a better blue.

[odiebugs]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

X58-G1.Guerrilla Bios F4d MOD
Update with...
IRST 11.5.0.1347
Jmicron 1.07.28
Marvell Bios Version 1.0.0.1033 / Firmware 2.2.0.1125
After flash is complete, shut down fully and switch off PSU, wait one minute and clear CMOS. Then turn on, boot to BIOS and load optimized and save/apply/reboot back to the BIOS. Once in the BIOS again set AHCI settings and Marvell Firmware mode to "Force", then save/apply/reboot and let it load through to windows, before that happens Marvell Firmware will update and board will reboot.*
mb_bios_g1.guerrilla_MOD_6_16_12_f4d

Download link can be found on the first page of the Bios Mod Thread.

If your bored, as I don't want to bother you.

Don't understand Marvell firmware-force, The only option in bios is to set the Marvell ports GSata 1 GSata 2 to enable- ide, ahci, raid. There is nothing in any of the settings for Marvell firmware in BIOS.

[Acebmxer]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

If your bored, as I don't want to bother you.

Don't understand Marvell firmware-force, The only option in bios is to set the Marvell ports GSata 1 GSata 2 to enable- ide, ahci, raid. There is nothing in any of the settings for Marvell firmware in BIOS.

You are correct. I used wrong info in patch notes. The bios was modded correctly. Updated patch notes should read as.

Set just set Gsata to ide, achi, or raid.

X58-G1.Guerrilla Bios F4d MOD <--Patch notes are incorrect. Correct info is listed here.
Update with...
IRST 11.5.0.1347
Jmicron 1.07.28
Marvell 9182 Rom 1.0.0.0025
mb_bios_g1.guerrilla_MOD_6_16_12_f4d

[odiebugs]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

You are correct. I used wrong info in patch notes. The bios was modded correctly. Updated patch notes should read as.

Set just set Gsata to ide, achi, or raid.

X58-G1.Guerrilla Bios F4d MOD <--Patch notes are incorrect. Correct info is listed here.
Update with...
IRST 11.5.0.1347
Jmicron 1.07.28
Marvell 9182 Rom 1.0.0.0025
mb_bios_g1.guerrilla_MOD_6_16_12_f4d

Thanks ACE, really means a lot you taking the time to help, hope its sunny where you are and have a great day.

[Acebmxer]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

Your welcome. Can you verify that Trim is now support in raid? I forgot you talked about it. No here that I have seen have said Trim is now support, alot of people have been waiting for it.

[odiebugs]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

Check back after 8pm est, I blew away windows, loaded new drivers ( floppy pre install drivers), then want to check trim, then do bench on RAID, then blow away, then load win 8, and do same.

[odiebugs]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

Sorry, had to run and look at a water heater. Windows 7 & 8 say's its on. I have read that people said it was on but not working, also read something from staff on OCZ forum that win 8 only has it, which doesn't seem right,
because its not windows, its the controller and the way it splits that doesn't allow the drives to see the TRIM commands.

Intel has said that win 7 will have TRIM on RAID after the version 11.5.0.1111 of the RST.

[Acebmxer]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

Yeah thats what I(we) all thought. we just were not sure if it was the raid rom and/or the drivers that were supposed to add the support, and win7 supports Trim on raid with other "True" hardware raid controllers. So this only win8 not win7 is BS.

The only true way that I know to test for trim is to write a whole bunch of crap to the drive and bench test it until you see performance drop then clean the drive up with out doing a secure erase and then letting it idle and see if trim kicks in and then bench test it to see if performance comes back.

[odiebugs]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

Ace, from everything I have been reading, I don't hear about performance loss, but maybe if the drive is almost filled. I can see windows stating that TRIM is on, but not actually making it to the drive, its see's an SSD,
so it enables TRIM, but maybe its not making it to the drive.

Maybe you can help me here, the difference between garbage collection and TRIM is real time, that is, TRIM cleans as soon as the blocks are free, where as garbage collection frees when the drive is idle, this is why I can't say there is a performance loss, because the drive just uses empty and doesn't overwrite deleted blocks, and I'm pretty sure this is why SSD are so fast is because they don't have to jump from point to point like a HDD.


I wish there was a real test that would show TRIM is working and its not being done by garbage collection, I tried to delete files and see if the space became free, and it did but how do we know that the drive isn't just using garbage
because it's not working to hard.

Its kind of funny how we have a MOBO MFG, who uses other hardware, and no one takes the time to tell how it works or to update as they should.

Marvell doesn't want to be bothered, they just want to sell their garbage, Intel is to big and come up with no real points, sometimes the MOBO MFG don't force anyone to come clean with how their hardware runs, and we get stuck paying
for things we have to do guess work on.

[odiebugs]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

Ace, I feel bad asking so may questions, so don't feel like you always have to answer.

Because I'm mental, I had to check to see if the Marvell firmware updated, I didn't see it when I extracted the f4d from gig, I really didn't think the firmware was in the bios, I only thought the marvell rom was, so I did two things, I downloaded the firm and put it on a boot-able flash, and received error with flash tool no firmware found, had the GO BATCH and BIN folder on flash drive.

I installed the Marvell utility and ran the flash cli and get no adapter found, and same when I open Marvell cli, no adapter found.


Now I know the controller is there because its in devise, BIOS, and I am getting 520 read and 490 write off a single marvell port.


Its pi ss ing me off that I can't see the firmware. One of my old ASUS had a marvell, and I found an ISO, booted to CD and the tool started and showed the version with a bunch of info.

Why the heck can't they keep it the same instead of these batchs, that don't tell you squat.

[Acebmxer]

Re: G1 Guerrilla mod bios

no your mother board has a Orom for the marvel controller. its the same controller thats int he X58a-OC board, which is the closest to true sata3 speeds for x58.

To see the difference versions of the the marvel orom enabled ahci or raid from a older bios or the original and compare to the modded bios.

As for Trim vs Garbage you are correct garbage is at idle and trim is live.