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Report Your Success or Failure - X-Series Firmware Update

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uscool

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Succesfully flashed my X128 drive. Needed to change SATA sttings in the bios from AHCI to IDE for flashing (drive was not found while in AHCI).

No data lost everything work perfect.

 

someone that had success very uncommon, what firmware file upper or lower and also what make motherboard ??

 

Thanks

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PrObE

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Well, as the heading states: SUCCESS

 

I thought i give it one more try and then give up, but believe it or not; all of a sudden the message "Firmware download completed successfully"

 

i could not believe my eyes, but there it was.

 

Here is what i have done:

 

Yesterday Evening:

 

-Made bootable USB-stick

-Loaded lower128.exe onto the USB-stick

-Changed from AHCI to IDE, booted from USB-stick

-Loaded f/w update--failed

 

-Hot plugged drive several times at the command prompt

-Loaded f/w update--failed

 

-Hot swapped SATA-ports at the command prompt

-Loaded f/w update--failed

 

Today

 

-Hot Swapped SATA-ports at the command prompt

-Loaded f/w update--Success :hmmm: at port 3

 

Ok, powered down, re-arranged BIOS, restarted. Booted into windows with no problems. Then a message appear telling me that "Windows needs to restart for these changes to take effect". So, restarted again. Well into windows again, all seems fine, all is where it was.

 

Ran CrystalDisk and it confirms that FW is 2.0. However, a little strange is that before the update my SSD was at 100%, now it says 95%.

 

Also ran ATTO, the results are a little off of what they where before the update.

 

Will check again in some time to see if TRIM now actually is in function and working.

 

Well, as a conclusion i think it is safe to say the the randomness of this utility is unbelievable. I guess it remains to be seen if i will stay stable or not for me, after all it's just 15 mins sine the update, i'll keep you posted. So keep on trying, it seems it may all of a sudden just work :confused::eek:

 

My systemspec is in the upper corner, but shortly:

 

eVGA X58 SLI (758-A1)

X128 (lowercase)

 

Cheers,

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Flashed 4 X128 drives (lower128).

 

Motherboard is EVGA X58 SLI LE (757 model). Used IDE mode. Didn't try AHCI, so don't know if that would have worked.

 

One was stubborn, so I did a secure erase as detailed in the forums (How to Restore Corsair SSD performance WITHOUT using HDDErase - but I used the better, more detailed link at ATA Secure Erase - ATA Wiki) and for whatever reason, then it worked. The others had no problem updating without a secure erase (all data was intact, but didn't help since the stubborn one was part of a RAID0 array).

 

Another was seemingly stubborn until I realized - unlike my other 3 drives - this one was already on 2.0 :sigh!:

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Success:

Lowercase x32 on Acer Aspire 8920g. First try I got download failed. Today I tried once more and got download failed. Then I removed my second hdd and swiched ssd to that sata port, in bios always with ide chanel and after that: SUCCESS > firmware 2.0 . Now I have a question: if I have turbo memory trim is still enabled? And after update at 2.0 do I have to do something else to enable trim in windws 7 or is enabled by default ?

 

PS: no data lost during update

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i tried last night - drive detected, but flash failed the moment i pressed "1". that was in ide mode. in ahci mode it didn't even get detected.

from what i see here it looks like i'll try again tonight, this time i'll incorporate some port hot-swapping magic into the show. if it doesn't work, i'll try all the permutations: different controller (i got both ich10r and jmicron onboard), different mb bios version, different bios settings, different kind of bootdisk... i also haven't wiped the disk yet. there's a disposable win7 64bit installation on it.

 

also i'd like to see very detailed specs from people who succeeded with exact as mine or close setup (x58 chipset board + x64 lowercase drive), i wanna know exactly what conditions permitted your success :) what setting in bios, what port used, what boot files you have used (mine report win98), up to what the weather was outside and who was your wife in bed with at the time of success.

gigabyte x58-ud3r ver1.6, bios GH

corsair x64 firmware 1.0 lowercase

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Maybe it works after a secure erase. Anyone tryed that?

 

Tried secure erase - no deal.

 

Have tried hot swapping, secure erase, format to 32k in Windows 7, SSD blank nothing installed on it ... changed USB ports just in case it was something to do with them, tried different USB sticks again in case it was one of them (lol) ... tried it with Asus mb and MSI mb, different CPU and memory configs - tried it with just SSD attached, with other drives attached, poked it with a stick and made faces at it .... still no deal lol

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also i'd like to see very detailed specs from people who succeeded with exact as mine or close setup (x58 chipset board + x64 lowercase drive), i wanna know exactly what conditions permitted your success :) what setting in bios, what port used, what boot files you have used (mine report win98), up to what the weather was outside and who was your wife in bed with at the time of success.

gigabyte x58-ud3r ver1.6, bios GH

corsair x64 firmware 1.0 lowercase

 

Hotswapping from ports 1-3 where it succeeded in port 3, which normally has one of my dvd-roms. My ssd, lowercase x128, is in port 0.

 

Weather was around +2 *C, Cloudy, with a lot of snow outside. Also had a cold one next to me.... My wife was supposedly picking up our daughter at daycare, but you never know.....lol :roll:

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After successful update to ver. 2.0 in CrystalDiskInfo I get 92% health and before with 1.0 I had 100%. After update I wanted to clean my drive but in gpart the drive is shown as frozen now and when I restored my data it last longer... why?
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Second try and success!!!

Mobo MSI P45 Platinum

bootable USB stick

Tried all SATA ports of the ICH10R and suddenly it worked on the second one.

I didn´t disconnect the power plugs just the SATA cable.

Health status in CrystalDiskInfo shows now 97%, with 1.0 it it has been always 100% from the first day on.

Win7 is detecting my X128 as new drive after rebooting, cause of new firmware, no data loss.

Until now everything is running fine, but time will tell.

 

btw. X128 lowercase

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You can see why they were reluctant to release this to the wild. It appears as though it's not random failures, rather, random successes! Bad luck, eh?
You have no idea. A couple of the guys that have been testing this are still in therapy :(::eyebuldge

 

i can report success: X32 successful in the first run, X128 i reported failure.

i changed to the sata-port, which i used successfully for the X32 and voila also satisfaction with X128. mb is asus p5q deluxe, both drives lower cases.

 

 

Changing ports seems to helping several people that have posted with success.

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I was able to flash the new firmware successfully on my x128 by swapping to a different port as well. However like others mentioned, my drive health dropped to 97% according to crystaldiskinfo from the 100% that had always been there before.

 

Atto also reported much lower then usual performance. I'll try a secure erase when I have time later and see if that fixes the performance issues.

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so trying each sata port at a time seems to work eventualy then, i will try this later today, also how does trim start working if my drive been used for a while without trim and me deleted stuff etc, does trim start working from now on deleting , what about the deletes i did before it had trim ?

 

Thanks

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Yellowbeard

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I was able to flash the new firmware successfully on my x128 by swapping to a different port as well. However like others mentioned, my drive health dropped to 97% according to crystaldiskinfo from the 100% that had always been there before.

 

Atto also reported much lower then usual performance. I'll try a secure erase when I have time later and see if that fixes the performance issues.

 

Test it with ATTO. We've seen inconsistent results with the other performance tests.

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