EVGA is dragging their feet on this. Bad business practice to just soak up all the $$$ possible from the X58 chipset, and as it appears to be reaching its EOL, the updates stop coming, the innovation stops. This sort of practice will deter customers from continuing their brand loyalty. Just get it done EVGA...you have the resources. It's getting tiresome to only see advancements and bug fixes AFTER the community does your job of finding them, and then complains to have them fixed. Seems like all EVGA does is try to avoid bad press, period.

Jacob, have you thought about giving a few of the forum members some more advanced (internal) BIOS modding tools to try and help you find a solution? Under NDA, obviously.

Yeah, but you aren't everyone and you thought it was something you would install in Windows. :P ;)

It's funny you will see faster P67 swap outs before I/O degradation/failures begin to happen. Because it's on Intel's dime (more like 7 billion dimes) 
 
Oh well, I feel like I am overreacting. I flashed the BIOS, all is well, took my same OC. Boot seems faster

zalbard

ebednar11

It's funny you will see faster P67 swap outs before I/O degradation/failures begin to happen. Because it's on Intel's dime (more like 7 billion dimes) 

Oh well, I feel like I am overreacting. I flashed the BIOS, all is well, took my same OC. Boot seems faster

It should be. In fact, it's a lot faster for other X58 boards with 10.1 OROM (not 8.5 we just got). And the performance is better, too.
These are the reasons people want this update so badly.

I understand that the performance/reliability is to be had there, for sure. I am more concerned about compatibility with future drives, in particular SSDs.

MvdL79

zalbard

ebednar11

It's funny you will see faster P67 swap outs before I/O degradation/failures begin to happen. Because it's on Intel's dime (more like 7 billion dimes) 

Oh well, I feel like I am overreacting. I flashed the BIOS, all is well, took my same OC. Boot seems faster

It should be. In fact, it's a lot faster for other X58 boards with 10.1 OROM (not 8.5 we just got). And the performance is better, too.
These are the reasons people want this update so badly.

It's not only faster on X58! My work-pc, which has an Asus P5Q Deluxe mobo, which also had an older version on the Intel RAID ROM (version 8.0.0.1038), was also much faster (read/write) when I flashed it to a modded bios with newer roms (including the Intel RAID ROM 10.1). Not to mention it seems to boot up way faster. 

So EVGA should really do their best to make the latest Intel RAID ROM work with their EVGA X58 mobo's. We paid for the best, so we should expect the best, right?

Right

The limit should only apply to drives that are part of the RAID array. Drives that are not part of any RAID array automatically default to using AHCI.

So the modded version of 78 is up and I'm rocking it with no issues now that dejanh fixed it up. :-D
 
 

ShibbyDPHS

BIOS 78 Updates:

• Updates RAID ROM to version 8.5.0.1030

BIOS updating can be accomplished VIA the below methods:

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CD/DVD Installation - Recommended installation method

• Download the correct .iso file below for your motherboard:

        132-BL-E758 - EVGA X58 SLI

• Use a CD Burning software to burn the .iso image onto a blank CD. Files verified after burning (PowerISO)
• After it has burned, insert CD and restart the machine, go into the BIOS and load defaults, save and exit (Check)
• Now set the CD Drive as the primary boot device, or press escape while the system is booting to select CD as the bootable device.(Check)
• Boots into Windows... everytime...

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I can't get the CD to "take." I tried the ALT+F2 as well but that only gives me Windows 7 or Windows Diagnostics.

Can anyone assist me here?

 
Don't you hammer ESC on these boards to get to the BIOS boot selection screen?

This stinks, BIOS 77 won't boot with my OC. Bios 78 won't even let me go back into the BIOS once flashed. I tried the 77M but it is the same as with 78. I guess I'll have no choice but to stick with 74 for the time being. Maybe I'll try it again if I get one of the six cores some time in the future. I guess the only RAID speed increase I'll be getting is form a stand alone Raid-card.

--fixed, thanks for the help everyone--

dejanh

ShibbyDPHS

dejanh

ShibbyDPHS

BIOS 78 Updates:

• Updates RAID ROM to version 8.5.0.1030

BIOS updating can be accomplished VIA the below methods:

---

CD/DVD Installation - Recommended installation method

• Download the correct .iso file below for your motherboard:

        132-BL-E758 - EVGA X58 SLI

• Use a CD Burning software to burn the .iso image onto a blank CD. Files verified after burning (PowerISO)
• After it has burned, insert CD and restart the machine, go into the BIOS and load defaults, save and exit (Check)
• Now set the CD Drive as the primary boot device, or press escape while the system is booting to select CD as the bootable device.(Check)
• Boots into Windows... everytime...

---

 
I can't get the CD to "take." I tried the ALT+F2 as well but that only gives me Windows 7 or Windows Diagnostics.

Can anyone assist me here?

Don't you hammer ESC on these boards to get to the BIOS boot selection screen?

Yeah that works but even doing that still doesn't boot the .iso file but throws me into Windows again.

Ok, stupid question, but did you burn the ISO as an image or did you just burn "the" ISO file to a disc?

 
This is a great point.
 

Confused.. Does someone have a modded version of the latest with the newest raid rom?  But using it voids warrenty correct?
 
I have a single Vertex 2 60GB SSD for the system and 2 Vertex 2 120GB drives in raid 0 off the intel controller.. I want the newest correct?
 
 

AHowes

Confused.. Does someone have a modded version of the latest with the newest raid rom?  But using it voids warrenty correct?

I have a single Vertex 2 60GB SSD for the system and 2 Vertex 2 120GB drives in raid 0 off the intel controller.. I want the newest correct?

You would want the newest, but you can't have it.  X58 BIOS won't support it currently without EVGA removing the 64K option ROM limit.  Modded BIOS was released before this update with the same RAID ROM as this update and the JMicron update.  Still a bit "newer" than this update because of the JMicron.  Other than that the same.

dejanh
Ok, stupid question, but did you burn the ISO as an image or did you just burn "the" ISO file to a disc?

 
I tried again and double checked it burned as an image and that worked.
 
PC seems to boot a little bit faster with 78 vs. 74.