Sata settings by flashing bios

Our company sets up bios settings by flashing preconfigured bios image.
However with MS-7181 ver 2.0 boards the onchip sata controller setting does not get set.
I have tried with 2 different bios flash utilities, CMOSsave/CMOSrest and MSI:s awfl859g.
Bios image is read ok and written ok, but does not affect the "onchip sata controller" setting.
Other bios settings gets set as saved in image file.
So how do I disable sata controller without entering bios and disabling it by hand?

Quote from: tazpa on 26-June-07, 13:32:12
Why don't you try and set it several times each day (on different machines)
Well at least that setting doesn't get reset when bios is flashed.
Oh and forgot to mention that awfl859g demanded switch /f to function, otherwise it would say that bios is write-protected (no jumper or bios setting to disable).
"Well at least that setting doesn't get reset when bios is flashed."
Clear CMOS via mainboard jumper.
"Why don't you try and set it several times each day (on different machines) "
it will take several seconds..

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DISCLAIMER:
This is a work-in-progress, not all solutions are "confirmed", use info at your own risk
Not all topics are covered, only stuff that keeps reapering in questions, or are thought to be important.
Before going ahead checkout When and how to update your BIOS
Note: Like reseting CMOS Flashing Bios will clear all any changes you made in bios & will need to be re-entered - see 12) below. So Make sure you remember/ make a note of them.
Resources:-
Floppy Images - Boot Disc.com
Simply insert Floppy & run downloaded Exe file.
Bios Saviour
IOSS Bios Saviour RD1-PMC4
Bios Saviour - RD1 Model Selection Sheet
SST 49LF040A LPC /3.3V - PMC4 For Neo3 250 & Neo4 (Thanks Arioch )
Recovery:-
MSI - Bios Recovery
Syar - Bios Recovery & Checksum Error
BIOS FAQ - How can you recover a corrupt BIOS ?
Bios recovery the dirty
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Saving MurdoK's Bios - Syar
Offers Reprogramming/Replacement service - Cheaper than new mobo. Can't vouch for non uk service not used them. (1st off search engine)
EU Recoverybios.com
UK BiosflashUK
US Badflash.com
How to Flash MSI Guides.
There are different ways to flash the bios but to keep things simple will concentrate on the MSI Official methods :-
1) Award Flash BIOS Procedure 98/ME
This method assumes access to hd formatted using FAT32 & therefore readable by DOS.
2) Flashing the BIOS for Users using NON FAT file system
For use with Linux based & NTFS File systems - HD Not readable from DOS. Using this procedure the the files are copied to the virtual drive before running the flash utility. So the flash effectively is all done in memory.
This will be the method used by the majority of us. So:-
Follow the instructions in the last link (Thanks Bas)
The details below are additional checks/notes referring to the steps in Bas's guide, which may be useful.
Essential
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5-1) Ensure you have a Boot Floppy with CD suport (this creates the Virtual drive used in the process) If you haven't got such
a boot disc see BootrDisc.com link in Rescources.
5-2) B4 booting floppy - Enter Bios & Load Optimised Defaults - To ensure that bios is returned to stock & any overclocking is
turned off.
7) If you miss the ramdrive letter the last DOS message will show your CD drive letter. The Ramdrive is the letter preceeding
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or
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or Syar's Bios Collection - Flashing.txt
See Also Using a Batch File to Automate bios flash
12) after flash , enter Bios & load optimized defaults , then save + exit with no other change .
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How to Flash Bios NVidia 64 & Award Bios
Warning Flashing the bios can be bad for your PC's Health
DISCLAIMER:
This is a work-in-progress, not all solutions are "confirmed", use info at your own risk
Not all topics are covered, only stuff that keeps reapering in questions, or are thought to be important.
Before going ahead checkout When and how to update your BIOS
Note: Like reseting CMOS Flashing Bios will clear all any changes you made in bios & will need to be re-entered - see 12) below. So Make sure you remember/ make a note of them.
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If you need to flash & are worried about stability - run with a single module & test it it memtest 1st.
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2-1) Award Flash BIOS Procedure 98/ME
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2-2) Flashing the BIOS for Users using NON FAT file system
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2) How to Flash Bios NVidia 64 & Award Bios - More Detail
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IOSS Bios Saviour RD1-PMC4
Bios Saviour - RD1 Model Selection Sheet
SST 49LF040A LPC /3.3V - PMC4 For Neo3 250 & Neo4 (Thanks Arioch )
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BIOS FAQ - How can you recover a corrupt BIOS ?
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Saving MurdoK's Bios - Syar
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UK BiosflashUK
US Badflash.com
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What we need - a guide on how to flash bios, setup bios, and raid

Ok, a topic I see very often on many forums, and several times here, is the following; How to flash bios, how to setup the bios settings, and how to setup the raid array, and then setup the bios to boot from the raid array. Could we perhaps pull our heads togheter and write a detailed guide on these three topics, taking into account how to do it on the most used (commonly written about) MSI boards? and perhaps put as a sticky?
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-AidenN-

Quote from: Aidenn on 17-January-07, 00:36:23
for some reason it still won't recognize the SATA drive plugged in to the SATA1 port.
Is this a new (SATA2) drive ? if so, you need to jumper it for SATA1 mode operation - 865PE does not support SATA2
Quote from: Aidenn on 17-January-07, 00:36:23
theres a 3 1/2" floppy drive selection but there isn't a floppy drive installed?
The option should dissapear once you disable the Floppy drive controller in the integrated perhipials menu.

Sata/Ide Conflict In Bios

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I'm a noob and doing this at work so bear with me a moment. I have a new computer with a MSI-7103 mobo, with award bios 6.0P I believe. I'm adding an IDE drive from the old computer as a second drive. The 80gb sata drive is on the sata 1 pin on the mobo. IDE1 has a cdrom drive master and DVD drive slave with nothing on IDE2. I put the old drive on IDE2 and left the jumper on CS.
In short it won't boot after POST. No matter what I do it detects the IDE drive before the sata drive and just sit's there. I reformatted the IDE drive before install so there is no operating system or anything else on the drive. Without the IDE drive connected it boots normally into winxp Pro. I can plug the ide drive in with windows running, scan for new hardware and it finds the IDE drive and works well...It's just that I can't boot with the IDE drive installed.
In bios, the boot sequence is FD1, IDE0, CDROM...I don't see any option for the sata drive. Is the sata drive considered as being IDE0?? I also tried disabling the IDE2 in bios hoping that it would boot and the operating system would then find the drive. It boots into XP but no dice on the OS finding the drive in that case.
IF it's a jumper issue on the IDE drive...since it's on CS now should I try putting it to master or slave and trying it again?? I have done some searching on the net and it appears that this is sort of a common problem with IDE/Sata conflicts but there doesn't seem to be any one answer. Any pointers would be very appreciated.
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On another system I prepared a bootable USB stick, and tried to flash my memory again. To no avail.
Clearing CMOS did not help.
I tried several BIOS versions, to no avail.
When flashing BIOS, I get the following on screen:
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-    Module checksum: OK
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System data protected
-   erasing flash: OK
-   writing flash: OK
-   erasing NVRAM: OK
-   writing NVRAM: OK
-   erasing bootblock: OK
-   writing bootblock: OK
-   Verifying bootblock: OK
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I tried to reinstall Windows, which failed. It stated that my disk was defect.
Can anybody tell me what to do to make it run again?
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Bios: Version 18.8
VGA: Radeon HD5670 Xfire
PSU: Coolermaster silentpro 600 w
AMD phenom II 1055t 2.8mhz
MEM: Kinston Hyperx dimm 2x4 gb 1600
HDD: 3x Samsung spinpoint 3 1tb
SDD: OCZ Agility 3 64 GB
COOLER: Scythe mugen 2
OS: Windows 7 64bit Home premium

Hello,
I was on here looking at boards just like mine and I passed your post....I am sure you have heard this. I know I have a 100 times or more. Never use a Windows base programs for updating Bios... To many Bricked Boards using the same utility. But getting into windows-might mean you just don't have your bios set right. It has been a long time since I updating the bios on a MSI Board...But If I can remember right--It reset everything back to default....You might need to go in an make sure all your setting are correct...AHCI and not IDE.....Ram setting's PCI settings...all that good stuff.
I bet if you can get into Bios and all the settings are there---and you can work around in Bios---Its an easy fix...
Can you get into Bios?
Can you press F8 right before the windows screen...or right before it boots up.....Get into the repair section and check Booting?
Good Luck!!!!!!
I

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I hope I haven't killed my motherboard, its almost brand new.
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Had I read this forum before I wouldn't have done it, but here I am.
Fan starts, LEDs are off, no beeps at all, power button does nothing. Black screen.
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https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=133578.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=129989.0
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I have been reading and watching a lot of videos on the subject..including the general threads here.
So my understanding has become ... do not use liveupdate 6 (mine can't even tell what I have installed). M-flash is the official way to flash bios and it works well if you choose uefi + ME.
I want to flash my bios because my USB 3 front ports have always been flaky and hoping for a bit more system stability (4 cpu hardware corrected errors since put together system in march) and in ultra rare case system will become unresponsive. Plus, will have room to upgrade to new cpu in future.
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Do I understand this correctly ... other than needing to know how ME gets flashed from the one bios file (which is E7821IMS.190)?
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TIA for the help )

To make it foolproof follow the below, it will update bios and ME firmware. After flashing ME driver needs to be reinstalled in Windows too.
>>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<<
A.) Download the attached archive (E7817IMS_660.rar.rar) and place it on your desktop. Do not decompress.
B.) Download and install the Forum flash tool.
C.) Insert your FAT32 formatted usb stick.
D.) Make sure that all win 8 options are disabled. (Fast Boot etc) Also make sure the legacy USB is enabled.
E.) Start the forum flash tool and select option 1. Then point the tool at the compressed archive we downloaded earlier. Then to your USB Flash Drive.
F.) Boot to the USB
G.) Now follow the directions and let the tool flash
H.) After flashing reinstall ME drivers in Windows: http://download.msi.com/dvr_exe/intel_amt90_mb.zip

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What we need - a guide on how to flash bios, setup bios, and raid

Like How to Flash Bios NVidia 64 & Award Bios
Syar2003 has also documented flashing methods in the Bios Collection. *Updated * 7025 1C3 EasyBIOS [r.2] thread
BIOS Guides pretty complete as far as Neo3 250/Ultra but as none of the pps who have been involved in the stickies have neo4's that chipset is lacking.
Raid Guide
If any1 wants to re-write /update these please feel free to write up the topic as a new thread thread & if popular we can add a link to the thread.
Volunteers welcome

Change SATA to ACHI in BIOS

Hiya guys!
I want to change SATA to ACHI via BIOS but i can't find it anywhere....please help me!
I have HP Pavilion DV7-3197eo

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That setting doesn't exist in most HP consumer PC's.
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Your model's XP downgrade guide instructions can be found under the section labeled "Dificult Models."
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-systems-and/General-XP-Downgrade-Guide-for-HP-Laptop...
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-systems-and/SATA-drivers-for-XP-solution-on-0x000000...
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