Xtrem

For the SLI LE, there shouldn't be a Jmicron ROM because it has only Intel SATA ports, do you think that you can upgrade that bios to include the latest Intel ROM?

dmoheban

Dejahn,

Is it also possible to mod the bios blue background color to red?

Thanks.

Arctucas

dejanh

I honestly could not tell you...lol...flash it and just see.  Every system is so different.  It's so easy to flash back if you need to after

With BIOS 78:



A minor increase overall.

Hopefully, if eVGA decides to get the 10.x implemented, a more significant increase will be realized.

dmoheban

So if you don't use the Jmicron ports then why bother?

Alucard666

Good news, finally got the usb to be bootable. I needed a bigger flashdrive. I was trying to use a 256mb one, no dice. went to a 2gb flash drive and it worked fine....anyway I upgraded to the new modded bios and I thought I'd share some findings with you all.

These are my SSD's *First Gen Vertex Turbo's in Raid0* after a year and a half of hard use...
 

Here they are after 8hrs of garbage control.*Leaving my comp idling while in the bios screen*

 

Finally here is the same array after the bios update.

 

As you can clearly see I've gained some performance.

Also my WEI score for my SSD's went up from a 7.6 to a 7.8. The 'upgraded' Bios
even shaved 3 seconds off my boot time. cold boot time was  28 seconds now it boots in 25 :-D~

Job well done to the OP. They really made a big difference. I vote for a BR!

Alucard666

vulcZ

Alucard666

Good news, finally got the usb to be bootable. I needed a bigger flashdrive. I was trying to use a 256mb one, no dice. went to a 2gb flash drive and it worked fine....anyway I upgraded to the new modded bios and I thought I'd share some findings with you all.

These are my SSD's *First Gen Vertex Turbo's in Raid0* after a year and a half of hard use...


Here they are after 8hrs of garbage control.*Leaving my comp idling while in the bios screen*



Finally here is the same array after the bios update.



As you can clearly see I've gained some performance.

Also my WEI score for my SSD's went up from a 7.6 to a 7.8. The 'upgraded' Bios
even shaved 3 seconds off my boot time. cold boot time was  28 seconds now it boots in 25 :-D~

Job well done to the OP. They really made a big difference. I vote for a BR!

Interesting. I have an SSD RAID myself (after much deliberating of whether sacrificing TRIM would be worth it). Does this form of GC'ing work on SF SSDs too? Is it really just as simple as booting my system up, DEL to go into the BIOS, and let my system sit there for 8 hours doing nothing while my RAID'ed SSDs GC themselves? I'm curious to try this :)

Yes it is that easy, and to my knowledge only SandForce OCZ and Corsair based drives support it.

We all know the importance of Garbage Collection for our SSD's right? But Windows Start Menu doesn't help in finding the LogOff when it's time for you to rest, the shutdown button is easier to find which is unfortunate because while you sleep Garbage Collection could be working hard restoring the SSD's performance. So help the little guy out and make a quick access shortcut, place it on your desktop and hit it instead of the Shutdown button when it's time for zzzzz's or any time you're AFK is also good.

The command is: shutdown.exe -l (that's a lower case L)

For the brave who are not worried about accidentally logging off without saving the newly created document then adding the -f switch forces a logoff and is fast!!

shutdown.exe -l -f

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How to:

First right click on the open desktop and select "New Shortcut" from the context menu


Next copy and paste this command into the location box: %windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -l then select OK



Type a name, like: SSD Recovery then select Finish


You might like an attention grabbing icon for the shortcut also, so right click on the newly created shortcut and select "properties" Select also the "Change Icon" button, click "OK on the next notification popup window. Select the "Browse" button in the next window, scroll down to find and select the high quality icon containing file called "imageres.dll" Choose an icon and select OK and OK again.


Finished!

Now clicky on the shortcut to LogOFF for GC to go to work while you're sleeping..

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Note! for GC to function in a Logged Off state, the Hard Disk power option also needs to be set to "never" under "Turn Off Hard Disk After" from the "Change Advanced Power Settings" Option..