dinner_plate Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 ...in Q-Flash the stick was listed (helpfully!) under 'floppy A'. i.e. I think if you hit 'return' on floppy A you can then select the USB stick. Exactly as I experienced. Hitting return seems to hang my system, forcing a hard reset. Will keep trying, thanks. (After spending a small fortune on an SSD as a startup disk, waiting 10 seconds plus for the AHCI BIOS to load is driving me insane.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin255 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Thanks for your reply, mitch. Just to see what would happen, I tried to boot with the old DSDT.aml after I updated the BIOS: it is as stable as it was before, so I don't think I will make a new DSDT for now. I am waiting for some new DSDT fix to justify taking the time to do it (the native SpeedStep fix looks promising, but it it still a bit blurry for me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGOvoruhk Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Damn you Gigabyte. You update my old P35 chipset boards, but not my newer P43!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApexDE Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Gigabyte finally released the GA-EP45-DS* Bios Updates: http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/gigabyte-l...html#post319322 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Exactly as I experienced. Hitting return seems to hang my system, forcing a hard reset. Will keep trying, thanks. (After spending a small fortune on an SSD as a startup disk, waiting 10 seconds plus for the AHCI BIOS to load is driving me insane.) Hi, I just updated all 4 of my Gigabyte systems, each one is a slightly different model (you can see three of them in my sig). All 4 took and there is a noticeable improvement with AHCI 1.20E. You might have better luck if you format your USB stick as FAT and not FAT32...there is a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy007 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Gigabyte finally released the GA-EP45-DS* Bios Updates: http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/gigabyte-l...html#post319322 Sadly, at least for my EP45-DS4P, it did not update the AHCI BIOS to 1.20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinner_plate Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 You might have better luck if you format your USB stick as FAT and not FAT32...there is a difference. I finally got this done. After formatting every USB stick I could get my hands on to FAT16 (I think) and trying all kinds of voodoo, I discovered a leather covered 128MB, already formatted to FAT, which saved me. So my G33M-S2 is up to the latest firmware, and AHCI BIOS takes a good 10 seconds less to load. But now my CPU fan is spinning at 1800 RPM and driving me crazy (where it used to spin at ~1200.) I must have changed something in the setup, or the new BIOS is trying to keep temps down. Arrrgh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApexDE Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 The new AHCI BIOS within the BIOS Update finally fixed my Sleepproblem. My SATA DVD Burner caused a very long going-to-sleep process. This is now fixed, the system goes to Sleep after a few seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurujee Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Gigabyte finally released the GA-EP45-DS* Bios Updates: http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/gigabyte-l...html#post319322 They also released new BIOS (F7) for EP45-UD3L. I used it on my mobo and found AHCI devices insitilaization much faster than before when using F4 Bios. Anyone getting sound in SL on this mobo, may please post the DSDT.aml and the related kexts for reference of all. I tried various famous blogs but unable to get sound on this mobo in SL. Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kludgedean Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Just wanted to say thanks for this!. It's made my reboots almost a PLEASURE (well... you got the idea!) 15 sec ACHI initilization, down to around 3 is bloody brilliant AND much needed! Newest BIOS for my GA-EP35-DS4 is noticably faster AND also has a "Save BIOS to HDD" function which wasn't there. Used a guide on insanelymac to install SL on my PC, i've even wrote a 'turbo' how-to because I managed to lose interest/track too many times, and miss something HUGELY VITAL! This BIOS update makes reboots (as often as i've needed to) almost make me RACE back to my chair with my cold beverage of choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephien Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 according to a post a bit higher there should be (and there is) an new bios for eg45m-ds2h i flashed mine to that bios but no ahci bios update (still running 1.07) any clues?? many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 This is the AHCI 1.20 modified BIOS for EP43 DS3L. Finally my BIOS boots fast in AHCI. EP43DS3L.F9c.zip Source:http://www.bios.net.cn/bbs/thread-90060-1-1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitap Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Those who use EP45 UD3x boards, the F11 bios includes the AHCI 1.2e bios, even though its not stated in the description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackosx Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 F11b BIOS is out for the GA-EP45-DS3L http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherb...?ProductID=2844 EDIT: Confirmed as working great. I created a new DSDT with all my patches, followed mitch_de's steps, and I now have AHCI v1.20E. Boot times are faster and 10.6.1 reports all hardware working as it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smilenkovski Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Finaly. Thank you Blackosx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted October 3, 2009 Author Share Posted October 3, 2009 I added an link (as clickable safarie link - dl it unzip and double click) with most newest BIOS. Screenshoot shows that latest changed last days : lot of new bioses. Its german, but simple to understand - click on that bios you want JZ_Board.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clipper99 Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Now, if only they could get off their duffs and make a newer BIOS for us rev 1.6 UD3P people I'd be happy. When I boot I go make a sandwich, eat it, have a good constitution, scratch myself...and then MAYBE the dang thing has finished its AHCI initilization!!!! cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephien Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 according to a post a bit higher there should be (and there is) an new bios for eg45m-ds2hi flashed mine to that bios but no ahci bios update (still running 1.07) any clues?? many thanks just found out that beta bios F5C is out for this board and with ahci 1.20e bios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfcarbel Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 But now my CPU fan is spinning at 1800 RPM and driving me crazy (where it used to spin at ~1200.) This is an issue I noticed with any of their new BIOS that you update to in the last 2 years (at least for the P35). My original BIOS which is very old worked fine with SpeedFan being able to adjust the CPU fan speed. Now with any BIOS after that, they all run at high speed and its annoying. Do any other P35 or P45 users have this issue as well with the new BIOS? I had meant to send a support email to Gigabyte but never got around to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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