Comments on: A7N8X-E Deluxe and 1TB SATA Disks

By: Eki

Eki — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:37:09 +0000

This works perfect!!! Gretz from Argentina!! Saludos.

By: MechaSamurai

MechaSamurai — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:19:38 +0000

This fixed my problem of adding a 1tb drive to my system. THANKS!!!

I did get an error (file not found) but I renamed the file and then the flash utility worked and after a reboot so did my new drive.

By: flo

flo — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:06:15 +0000

actually after getting more info on this topic i get more an more confues on how to achieve my goal:
- is it really required to slipstream the SATA Bios in to motherboard BIOS to get this working?
- i visited Silcion Image and found they provide IDE SATA drivers and RAID SATA drivers for my SATA controller Silicon Image SiI3112; i have no plans on using RAID mode so I assume using the IDE SATA Bios would be the right thing to do?

By: flo

flo — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:28:12 +0000

Hi, really appreciated this post as is struggle with a similar problem namely getting my Spinpoint 1TB S-ATA II HDD up and running on my ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe – my manual tells me that the onboard S-ATA RAID Controller is Silicon Image SiI3112A though.
Therefore i have some questions:
- i have the A7N8X not the A7N8X-E so i’m wondering if I can use the Silicon Image BIOS provided here, anyone had the same problem and tried it?
I can’t find any information if this controller suport just plain SATA mode, without ANY raid configuration as is have just one HDD attached.
I’m really sick of this because I tried to get the HDD running on this board for weeks now, its in SATA I mode but once plugged in system won’t boot anymore and this SUCKS. BTW, i have a P-ATA drive attached and this is where my OS is installed. Please comment or give me a hint, any help is really (!) appreciated, THX!

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:24:49 +0000

After hours of time searching and a pc card that would not boot this did the trick. For some reason I had to rename it for award flash to take it, but it’s all good now.

Thank you thank you thank you.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:20:42 +0000

I’ve got the same mainboard but when I try to flash the bios with your image it keeps giving me checksum errors.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:01:07 +0000

Could you attach both your original boot drive and your new drive to the SATA controller on your MB after you flashed the BIOS? Did you move your OS to the new drive? I too have a rev 1.01MB and I have been trying to use a Seagate 1TB Baracuda drive with it but to no avail. I went so far as to purchase a new PCI SATA controller but I have been unable to get it to work with my MB.

By: Felix Kaechele

Felix Kaechele — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:53:21 +0000

My board is labeled with Rev. 1.01

By: Garen

Garen — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:42:33 +0000

Do you have (or is the BIOS for) a v1.0 or v2.0 board?

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:28:34 +0000

Thank you so much, after finally figuring out how to flash the bios with a bootable CD-Rom this worked great…I have a 1.5 TB WD drive that wasnt being recognized with the old SATA bios. Your updated Bios did the trick!! Glad there are computer whizzes that share their hard work with the public.