Asus A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe Motherboard SATA

[td789]

I have an Asus A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe Motherboard with the integrated Silicon Image SATA 3112A RAID Controller. When I boot, the BIOS reports the controller is at version 4.1.50. The mobo's BIOS is 1007.

I've installed a pair of 200GB SATA disks in a Raid-1 (mirror) configuration.

After installing XP Pro (using seperate controller driver), installing a bunch of applications and copying some data over, I rebooted. When the system tried to reboot I got the dreaded DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

Further inspection showed that the partition table had got nuked and I'd just lost all my data - AAARRRRGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

So, having reinstalled I'm very keen to do what I can to ensure its going to be reliable and not happen again. I updated my Motherboard BIOS (from 1006 to 1007) and would like to update the Silicon Images controller BIOS.

I believe a newer version of code is available but I can't find it nor how to load it. I found how to load the code to an add-on card using the updflash.exe but this doesn't work for controllers built into the motherboard.

Anyone got any clues about why the partition table would go like that and how to get the code to update the integrated controllers BIOS ?

Cheers,
td789

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There is no newer updated driver for the 3112A. I just looked on Silicon Images website. Apparently the problem is due to the mobo. If you have the latest revision (1007 i think) then all should be well. I've not done it yet because i have so much data on my (SATA) drive that i would have to back it up onto an IDE first, reinstall windows (after setting the raid to 0 or 1) and plonk the data back onto the pair of SATA's. Which seems a pain. When i get an IDE for my xbox, though, i'll do exactly that.