Honestly, that’s what I do not know I do not know. But just like that, too, will not be lowering. Probably found some sort of mistake, but do not advertise.
Very interesting, how? FW MEI 9.1.xx.xxxx on motherboards with 8 chipset is not working correctly. But who thinks he’s so cool to be able to get to work the processor Broadwel onl 8th chipset.
There is nothing against you from anyone here, as demonstrated by the fact that you received help from all of us. But half of the questions you address are answerable by using logic, simple deduction and reading the first post. If none of the above offer a reasonable answer, then you can post your inquire. If you continue down this road with a plethora of questions, you will find yourself left alone with them. In this forum, I have only added one user on what one might call “ignore list”, for the same behaviour. This could also arise from the fact that I am not a very patient man, but I’m sensing others are treading this path, despite their genuine patient nature. This is by no means a warning, just an observation of recent events.
Here is something twisted and salted from AMD. I have found 6.1.4-0059 in a Gigabyte board, mb_bios_g1.sniper-a88x_f10.zip was the file. Strangely, this seems to be newer than 7.0.0-00087, but older than 7.1.0-00019. What do you think, is AMD trying to use branches like Intel, or they are messing things all the way?
It depends on whether the OEM implemented ME9.1 support or not. If a user with 9.0 upgrades to 9.1 manually the usual problems will occur. But if the OEM has updated the BIOS with firmware 9.1 it’s ok. That’s because they also need to update a lot of ME dependencies which cannot be done by us.
Intel has told that desktop broadwell is 9-series only. But maybe, an 8-series system with upgraded (from OEM) ME to 9.1 can support the desktop broadwell. Maybe, someone which such a system and a broadwell cpu can try that and report back.
EDIT: Also, do you think I should keep these older vBIOS? I mean, are they important to you or should I just disregard them (HSW 2145)?
@plutomaniac You’re right. If the manufacturer has integrated the firmware, it will work correctly. I saw FW MEI 9.1.0.1010 on some motherboards from ASRock on the 8th chipset. But I doubt that these boards will support the processor Broadwell.
Yes, personally I’m interested in all versions VBIOS.
@lordkag However… 6.1.4-00059.RCBNEND.08/27/2014 vs 7.0.0-00085.RCBNEND.07/07/2014 7.0.0-00087.RCBNEND.07/31/2014
I have a suggestion. You may recall from what devices we took 7th versions, desktop or mobile?
Edit 7.1.0-00019.RCBNEND.11/12/2014 latest by date (12-Nov-2014) Another assumption. If it is not related to the chipset it is possible that the 7th version of the alpha or beta versions.
All 7.x versions were extracted from HP files, so mobile most likely. The version 6.1.4-0059 was extracted from desktop. But I don’t see this as important as it seems, for two reasons: - they share the same ID/GUID - I have also extracted 6.x from HP, no difference whatsoever from desktop 6.x version.
Do you think it will be too much trouble to offer 6.x and 7.x as a choice and let the user decide what fits his/her needs better? If someone asks what are the advantages of a specific branch, tell them they know just as much as we do. Here is one visible difference between 6.x and 7.x:
My guess is that they are using 6.x for older devices and 7.x is the future branch. But I haven’t researched on the matter of AMD RAID and can’t say which chipset should be supported the most.
Edit: Your assumption of 7.x being beta/alpha could also be true. Check out the attached files with a comparison tool. Version 6.x has more IDs, port multiplier, LSI controller for 983X IDs. Version 7.x has fewer IDs (dropped LSI re-branded controller), but has support for HIPM and DIPM. This feels more like a chipset separation, so offering both 6.x and 7.x seems like a reasonable choice.
Edit2: If you go to this AMD page and select Specs tab, you will see that RAID support for FM2+ is offered by Dot Hill. They have this page about AMD partnership, where they mention RAIDCore, which is also the name given to some of 7.x ffs files. Either 7.x is a beta branch which will soon replace 6.x, or 7.x is preparing support for a new platform. Either way, I see no reason why not to offer a choice between 6.x and 7.x, besides the invested work, of course.
Yes, I have already noticed a difference. Chances are you’re right. Have to choose updates between versions 6.x or 7.x. Many users this is typed into confusion.
Edit: Now I looked at all the files BIOS for FM2+, version 6.1 is used everywhere. I have another suggestion that version 7.x is a lightweight version for mobile devices, and version 6.1 for the desktop.
If you can get someone with RAID on FM2+ chipset to test 6.x versus 7.x and provide some results, it will be a lot easier to choose. But here is the catch with link1, link2, link3 : they are desktop versions and have 7.x RAID. Concluding that 7.x is NOT for mobiles, as we previously thought. HP is known to offer updated modules in its files, as I have found many updates from them. Maybe Asrock will save the day and start to provide 7.x to its line of FM2+ boards, so we can know for sure.
Hmmm… i made a mistake. Sorry. Now the question is: the board supports haswell and broadwell. I can upgrade via UBU haswell or broadwell microcode, but not both?
Can make that microcode for Haswell and Broadwell updated together. But be sure to do correction of addresses for the second microcode in the FIT. Otherwise, there will be read the second microcode, since the size of the new microcode file differ from those already in the BIOS.
While parsing through the gift we received today, I remembered that I had a similar one, still not fully unpacked/unwrapped. Waiting there for months was ASMedia AHCI 0.97 module. And while reading a few notes from the new gift, it appears that 3.02 was released to solve a problem with ROM space issues and Intel RAID (!!) not responding to Ctrl+I because of this. It also says that drives needs to be enumerated in a different way because of this, which might explain the problems with ASMedia 3.xx and old boards. I don’t know what 3.70 and 3.80 changed and I’m still not sure if this is the true explanation for 3.xx problems with some boards.
Edit: And another thing. The file were you found Intel Gigabit UNDI 0.0.07 also has a 6.x one, marked for I211. Either the new one is not yet fully functional on I210/I211, or Intel plans to remove them from support.