Re: How to tell DP35DP BIOS version before buying CPU?


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I paid $104. I also figured out how to flash the BIOS using a
bootable ISO CD from Intel's website. Without even loading the OS,
I now have the latest (0413) BIOS, my CPU now shows 3.0Ghz and 4GB
of ram. I thought I would have problems using this old BIOS (0293)
but it did stay stable until I updated. Now I can feel a little
better about loading Windows Vista with a current BIOS. Thank you
for your help. JackD-

So 0293 did recognize your CPU, just not every function of your CPU.-

Yea, glad it worked out the way it did.
Maybe you or anyone reading this could help me on this question. I
have
a single SATA HD that I want to load Windows on. What would I set it
to
in the BIOS to install Windows? There is a Drive Configuration menu
that says configure SATA as... IDE, RAID or AHCI. Mine is set to IDE.
Also there is a setting for ATA/IDE Configuration. Disable, Legacy,
or
Enhanced ( or Native). Mine is set to Legacy but wondering if it
should
be set to Enhanced (native) The HD is a Seagate 250GB SATA HD.
Thanks!-

Which version of Windows are you trying to install? Vista has native
support
of both SATA and the Intel RAID ICH9 and earlier chips. If you're
installing
Vista, change the setting to RAID if you think there's some
possiblity
in the
future you'll want to setup a RAID array (it's future-proofing your
installation;
there's no requirement to ever actually setting up a RAID). AHCI is
native
SATA support without the RAID option. If you'll never, ever use RAID,
use this option, as it will eliminate the RAID status screen during
POST.

XP SP3 and earlier Windows installations require F6 drivers for SATA
and
RAID. If you set the SATA to emulate IDE you won't need these
drivers.
If you use IDE emulation, Enhanced would work best with XP, but older
Windows versions might only recognize Legacy, which may limit you to
137GB drives or smaller.

I would tend to believe that native SATA support runs faster than IDE
emulation on either XP or Vista.

Bob-

Hey thanks Bob for your response!


Which version of Windows are you trying to install?
Windows Vista Home Premium x64

No possibility of running RAID. Just a single HD.

My HD supports SATA 3.0 and there's a jumper you can pull off so that
the HD runs at 3.0gb/s but I don't think it can...yet. If you leave
the
jumper attached, then it runs at 1.5gb/s or something like that. Mine
is
off.
So you're saying I should set the "CONFIGURE SATA as...AHCI? If I
change it to that, you can't set it back to IDE, can you? Will I
benefit from increased performance from the HD using AHCI?
Jack-

Yes, set it to AHCI. No, you can't set it back to IDE without getting
a
STOP 0x7b error when next booting Vista due to the missing IDE driver.
Yes, there should be increased performance using the native SATA AHCI.

Please be aware that you *may* run into a problem using 4GB of ram
with
Vista 64. It installs just fine, even after the reboot during
installation, but
subsequent boots take *much* longer, on the order of 2-10 minutes just
to get to a working desktop. The most recent BIOS is supposed to
finally
fix this problem, but if it doesn't, there's a simple fix, so don't
worry.

Bob

I've heard about the ram problem with some people. I have installed via
ISO CD the latest BIOS (v0413) so I think I have it covered. Also ran
Memtest on the 4gb's of ram 6 passes without an error. Even did each
stick individually. No errors. Some posters did the single ram stick in
the board, then loaded the OS and after it was installed and a BIOS
update, installed the 2nd stick then all was well.
Would there be any problems with my SATA CD/DVD if I use AHCI? When I
did the update thing using the ISO CD, I found out that the setting in
the BIOS was set to RAID. When I changed it to IDE, then the SATA CD
loaded the BIOS that was on the disk. Had it been set to AHCI would it
still have worked? Just don't want any conflicts so trying to cover as
many "bases" as I can! Thanks Bob!
Jack

The slow boot problem has nothing to do with defective memory, and everything
to do with memory-mapping the PCI bus above the 4GB address space. I
had no problem installing Vista 64 with 4GB, but after installtion was complete
subsequent boots were very slow until Vista was completely loaded.

AHCI or RAID is the preferred setting for all SATA devices. IDE is needed
for backwards compatibility with older O/S's that don't have SATA drivers.
I'm fairly sure that the ISO CD BIOS update will work no matter whether
the BIOS is set to RAID, AHCI or IDE, because the code to read the CD
and update the BIOS is also part of the BIOS code. One you have Windows
installed, the Windows BIOS update method is much easier to use.

The one time I did have to temporarily change the setting from RAID to
IDE was when I had to update the firmware on my Western Digital disk
drive. The firmware update program, running under DR-DOS, didn't
see the SATA drives but did see them when they emulated IDE drives.

Bob


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