[FIXED!] Help: Windows 10 Upgrade Makes Raid 5 Drives Incompatible

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
RAID chipset :Intel ICH8R
BIOS : Gigabyte F6

Similar to this thread when I attempted to upgrade my Windows 7 machine to Windows 10, after the first third of the process where the installation is copying files and then reboots, the BIOS shows the drives of my RAID 5 array as “Incompatible” and so I cannot boot to continue the installation.

So I attempted to follow the advice in the above thread and other threads in this forum and create a modified BIOS that replaced the Intel Matrix Storage Manager ROM (ICH8RAID.BIN in the BIOS) which reports as version 6.0.0.1022 with an Intel Rapid Storage ROM (since my computer is so old I attempted the Classical RST RAID ROM Module version 10.1.0.1008 from this thread).

Unfortunately it didn’t seem to work. I renamed the downloaded module called 8086-2822_v10101008.BIN to ICH8RAID.BIN and installed it into the F6 BIOS image (965pdq6.f6) using CBROM with the following command: cbrom 965pdq6.f6 /PCI ICH8RAID.BIN with the following result:

cbrom V1.98 [08/27/08] (C)Phoenix Technologies 2001-2008
Adding ICH8RAID.BIN … 59.8%
Adding ME_MRC.BIN 100.0%


Here is he before and after BIOS content:

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cbrom V1.98 [08/27/08] (C)Phoenix Technologies 2001-2008
 
              ********   965pdq6.f6 BIOS component ********
 
 No. Item-Name         Original-Size   Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
========================================154D5h(85.21K)==965pdq6.BIN=============  0. System BIOS       20000h(128.00K)
  1. XGROUP CODE       0F800h(62.00K)   0AAFEh(42.75K)  awardext.rom
  2. ACPI table        04B5Ah(18.84K)   0181Ah(6.03K)   ACPITBL.BIN
  3. EPA LOGO          0168Ch(5.64K)    0030Dh(0.76K)   AwardBmp.bmp
  4. GROUP ROM[18]     01550h(5.33K)    00FD7h(3.96K)   ggroup.bin
  5. YGROUP ROM        0BA30h(46.55K)   057A8h(21.91K)  awardeyt.rom
  6. GROUP ROM[ 0]     07340h(28.81K)   02B5Bh(10.84K)  _EN_CODE.BIN
  7. PCI ROM[A]        0F400h(61.00K)   0955Ah(37.34K)  ICH8RAID.BIN
  8. PCI ROM[B]        03600h(13.50K)   0253Fh(9.31K)   ICH8AHCI.BIN
  9. PCI ROM[C]        07400h(29.00K)   03FB8h(15.93K)  JMB53.BIN
 10. MINIT             076A0h(29.66K)   076CCh(29.70K)  ME_MRC.BIN
 11. PCI ROM[D]        0D800h(54.00K)   084F1h(33.24K)  8056.lom
 12. LOGO BitMap       4B30Ch(300.76K)  06F80h(27.88K)  DQ6.BMP
 13. LOGO1 ROM         00B64h(2.85K)    00520h(1.28K)   dbios.bmp
 14. GV3                01AADh(6.67K)   00B76h(2.87K)   PPMINIT.ROM
 15. OEM2 CODE         01000h(4.00K)    00079h(0.12K)   AFSC_HDR.ROM
 16. OEM0 CODE         02653h(9.58K)    01BA5h(6.91K)   dbf.bin
(SP) NCPUCODE          0FC00h(63.00K)   0FC00h(63.00K)  NCPUCODE.BIN
 
  Total compress code space  = 6B000h(428.00K)
  Total compressed code size = 63C36h(399.05K)
  Remain compress code space = 073EAh(28.98K)
 
              ********   965pdq6.f6 Bootblock component ********
 
 No. Item-Name         Original-Size   Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
========================================076D1h(29.70K)==ME_MRC.BIN==============  1. MEM INIT IN BB    076A0h(29.66K)
 
                          ** Micro Code Information **
Update ID  CPUID  | Update ID  CPUID   | Update ID  CPUID   | Update ID  CPUID
------------------| SLOT1  17 00000F34-| SLOT1  17 00000F41-| SLOT1  05 00000F43SLOT1  02 00000F37
SLOT1  03 00000F49| SLOT1  04 00000F4A | SLOT1  06 00000F44 | SLOT1  03 00000F47
PGA478 07 00000F61| PGA478 0F 00000F62 | SLOT1  04 00000F64 | PGA478 07 00000F65
SLOT1  11 000006F1| SLOT1  26 000006F4 | SLOT1  33 000006F5 | SLOT1  33 000006F5
SLOT1  44 000006F6| PPGA   60 000006F7 | SLOT1  04 00010660 |
 
 


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cbrom V1.98 [08/27/08] (C)Phoenix Technologies 2001-2008
 
              ********   965pdq6.f6 BIOS component ********
 
 No. Item-Name         Original-Size   Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
========================================154D5h(85.21K)==965pdq6.BIN=============  0. System BIOS       20000h(128.00K)
  1. XGROUP CODE       0F800h(62.00K)   0AAFEh(42.75K)  awardext.rom
  2. ACPI table        04B5Ah(18.84K)   0181Ah(6.03K)   ACPITBL.BIN
  3. EPA LOGO          0168Ch(5.64K)    0030Dh(0.76K)   AwardBmp.bmp
  4. GROUP ROM[18]     01550h(5.33K)    00FD7h(3.96K)   ggroup.bin
  5. YGROUP ROM        0BA30h(46.55K)   057A8h(21.91K)  awardeyt.rom
  6. GROUP ROM[ 0]     07340h(28.81K)   02B5Bh(10.84K)  _EN_CODE.BIN
  7. PCI ROM[B]        03600h(13.50K)   0253Fh(9.31K)   ICH8AHCI.BIN
  8. PCI ROM[C]        07400h(29.00K)   03FB8h(15.93K)  JMB53.BIN
  9. MINIT             076A0h(29.66K)   076D6h(29.71K)  ME_MRC.BIN
 10. PCI ROM[D]        0D800h(54.00K)   084F1h(33.24K)  8056.lom
 11. LOGO BitMap       4B30Ch(300.76K)  06F80h(27.88K)  DQ6.BMP
 12. LOGO1 ROM         00B64h(2.85K)    00520h(1.28K)   dbios.bmp
 13. GV3                01AADh(6.67K)   00B76h(2.87K)   PPMINIT.ROM
 14. OEM2 CODE         01000h(4.00K)    00079h(0.12K)   AFSC_HDR.ROM
 15. OEM0 CODE         02653h(9.58K)    01BA5h(6.91K)   dbf.bin
 16. PCI ROM[A]        15200h(84.50K)   0CA5Ah(50.59K)  ICH8RAID.BIN
(SP) NCPUCODE          0FC00h(63.00K)   0FC00h(63.00K)  NCPUCODE.BIN
 
  Total compress code space  = 6B000h(428.00K)
  Total compressed code size = 67140h(412.31K)
  Remain compress code space = 03EE0h(15.72K)
 
              ********   965pdq6.f6 Bootblock component ********
 
 No. Item-Name         Original-Size   Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
========================================076D1h(29.70K)==ME_MRC.BIN==============  1. MEM INIT IN BB    076A0h(29.66K)
 
                          ** Micro Code Information **
Update ID  CPUID  | Update ID  CPUID   | Update ID  CPUID   | Update ID  CPUID
------------------| SLOT1  17 00000F34-| SLOT1  17 00000F41-| SLOT1  05 00000F43SLOT1  02 00000F37
SLOT1  03 00000F49| SLOT1  04 00000F4A | SLOT1  06 00000F44 | SLOT1  03 00000F47
PGA478 07 00000F61| PGA478 0F 00000F62 | SLOT1  04 00000F64 | PGA478 07 00000F65
SLOT1  11 000006F1| SLOT1  26 000006F4 | SLOT1  33 000006F5 | SLOT1  33 000006F5
SLOT1  44 000006F6| PPGA   60 000006F7 | SLOT1  04 00010660 |
 
 



So I was prepared for some issues as documented in other threads about Gigabyte BIOSes maybe having issues with the ICH8RAID.BIN moving from before MINIT to after it, or checksum issues. But the BIOS seemed to flash just fine; no errors.

However the RST ROM didn't appear to run after setting the BIOS to optimal defaults, saving and rebooting and then resetting up the RAID choices in the BIOS again. After the reboot once the RAID options were set again; I didn't get any information about the state of the drives in the RAID array like I did before with the MSM ROM and it still would not boot to the RAID array.

So is there something obvious I missed? I'm pretty new to modding BIOSes...

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention I was able to get back to my original state by reflashing the original F6 BIOS, so clearly something is being changed, but neither state is helpful to my problem :)
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Ha! What a fantastic resource this place is! I just needed to search around a little more to find the solution here.

I never would have guessed that simply newer Intel MSM ROM version would make the RAID array compatible again.

Thanks for such a treasure trove of information!

I am right now continuing the Windows 10 install!

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@ Blackthorne TA:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!

We are glad, that our Forum helped you to solve your problem.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Dieter (alias Fernando)