simple rom upgrade ?

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by Polar Bear, May 29, 2011.

  1. Polar Bear

    Polar Bear MDL Novice

    May 29, 2011
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    Greetings

    I have an asus p5k Deluxe w/wifi and the latest bios 1005 installed.
    However I can't get my new ssd drive to work and through scouring the internet (inclusing the OCZ forums) I come to believe that I need a newer option rom. The 1005 has 7.5.0.1017 and I've heard that 8.9.0.1023 will resolve my issue. I should note that I am currently running in RAID (not AHCI) with 6 drives paired in raid1.

    So I have been playing around with mmtool (v3.19) and it seems straight forward.

    Grabbed bios 2003 from the asus P7P55D (has 8.9.0.1023)
    extracted the PCI Option ROM from 8086:2822
    loaded my bios (p5k deluxe 1005) into mmtool
    replaced 8086:2822 with the extracted option rom
    saved the bios

    Is it really that straight forward ?
    IF! that doesn't work (doesn't load or loads and won't boot) will I be able to load my original bios ?