@ NucleoN:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your report!
If you want to see the Intel RAID ROM version, which is within your mainboard BIOS, you may have to to completely power off the computer for a minute after having temporarily set the Intel SATA Controller to "RAID" and saved this changed BIOS setting.
You are absolutely right and I am sorry about my mistake, which has just been corrected by me.
This is what I thought many years ago, because I couldn’t believe, that the Intel SATA AHCI Controller of Intel Chipsets from 5-Series up do not need and use any Firmware resp. Option ROM module. Later on I realized, that the Intel RAID ROM module has indeed no impact at all on a system, which is running in AHCI mode, but I forgot to correct this passage within my guide.
Thank you very much for having pointed me to that wrong and absolutely misleading statement. I am very sorry about not having corrected my mistake earlier (nobody has given me a related feedback before).
Now the Forum members and visitors will read this corrected statement instead:
Conclusion:
Although I do not believe, that the updated Intel RAID ROM module has harmed your system, you can reflash the original BIOS without any disadvantage. As long as you are running your Intel SATA ports in AHCI mode, the Intel RAID ROM module within the BIOS doesn’t matter at all.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Dieter (alias Fernando)