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| 517675 | 2007-01-19 19:45:00 | Hi I have a Gigabyte GA81955 Pro mobo running a Pentium D 820, with two 250 gig SATA seagate drives in Raid 1, managed by Intel Matrix raid manager. XP Pro. I want to upgrade the CPU to the fastest possible for this mobo, which Gigabytes site tells me is a Pentium D 945 (core 2 duo not possible :( ). My issue is the current Bios is F6, I need to upgrade to F10 to run the new CPU. I'm wary about upsetting the Raid array - can anyone let me know if this should be sytraightforward or am I opening a can of worms here? many thanks, Bill |
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| 517676 | 2007-01-20 03:04:00 | onboard raid? if so some can be tricky as changing the bios may mean it no longer reads our drives. some chipsets are worse then others. you may have to trawl the net to see if someones done it. otherwise a email to gigabyte may be in order. |
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| 517677 | 2007-01-20 03:26:00 | onboard raid? . Hmmm.. it has 'gigaraid' as on onboard option, bios shows it enabled, but i'm using Intel Matrix Manager which was another supplied option (software based I think?). Looks like a bios update sets the 'Raid on/off' to 'off' by default. I don't think I'll jump in to a bios upgrade just yet. Raid seemed like a good idea at the time but I think good back ups are simpler. I'd like to just transfer all to a bigger, new single drive and use the two current drives for backups. But the thought of reinstalling everything leaves me cold. Is this a place to use Ghost? does it really to a good job of migrating a whole drive to another, ready to go? Bill |
BillIrwin (8493) | ||
| 517678 | 2007-01-22 20:05:00 | I know on my motherboard, the RAID array is controlled by a separate chip with it's own BIOS. Upgrading the BIOS of the motherboard had no effect on the one on the RAID controller. If your RAID configuration is integrated into the main BIOS screen, then upgrading may cause problems - it shouldn't since you're still using the same controller - and would be wise to back up all the important data. |
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