I'm running a simple software RAID from the ICH10R on my motherboard. EVGA have just released a BIOS update for my board, which I would like to get, this won't damage my RAID right? I mean, I just flash, set SATA mode back to RAID in the BIOS and I'm good to go? I'm guessing my RAID configuration is saved somewhere other than the BIOS? Cheeers
Hmmm... not sure. If you were to change your motherboard, you'd lose your RAID, so there's a good chance you'll lose it with a BIOS flash. Don't quote me on that, but I wouldn't be surprised.
With asus mbs you install the raid drivers as part of your windows install. I flashed my bios last week (running raid 0) and it just resets ur bios to standard setup. At this point windows won't load as the bios is no longer set to raid configuration so I just went back into the bios and reset my sata connection to raid and no problems recognizing the drives as raid 0. I've done this twice in the last 6 months
Back when I ran raid off the ICH, I changed mobos several times and even moved from one gen to the next (I think it was ICH7 » 8) all without incident.
im running raid 0, swapped the motherboard and just set the raid options and booted into windows 1st time. Gigabyte Cheesecake
It shouldn't unless they changes the option ROM for the RAID in the BIOS to something completely different. This is highly unlikely so you *should* be safe.
Thankyou all very much guys! I'd held off doing this until I'd run it past the experts The PC's so new there's nothing really sensetive to lose, just 3 nights of downloading my steam games again.
