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    m17xR3 can I upgrade RAID BIOS (Option ROM) to 11.5?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by beast-alien, Sep 12, 2012.

  1. beast-alien

    beast-alien Notebook Enthusiast

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    I was wondering if it was possible to update the OROM v10 on my m17xr3 to OROM v11.5 that way I can have TRIM enable on my 2x256GB Vertex 3 Max IOPS configured in Raid 0.

    I am running Windows 8 RTM activated, and have already upgraded my SSD to latest OCZ firmware 2.22 and not sure how good the GC (garbage controller) works on these drive, thus I am trying to see if I can get TRIM enabled.

    I see that there is a m18x bios with OROM v11.5 made possible and wondering if somehow maybe someone can make an m17xr3 unlocked A08 bios with OROM v11.5 if this is possible or not?

    I do know that you have to have Intel RST v11+ and Intel OROM 11.5+ for trim to be possible on raid 0, and supposedly a intel chipset7 MB, which I have read there are workarounds for this last requirement.

    Any suggestions would be nice
     
    beast-alien, Sep 12, 2012
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    brave758 Notebook Guru

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    Bump, any updates on this?
     
    brave758, Sep 18, 2012
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