Intel Communities: Message List

Re: DZ77GA-70K: Firewire (1394) recognition problem

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:32:19 GMT

Try to install the An IEEE 1394 isochronous device does not function in Windows 7 SP1 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 hotfix, it includes latest version of OS IEE1394 system driver. The number of IEEE1394-related hotfixes for Windows 7 is just...terrific. Consider a try of Unibrain replacement drivers - Unibrain Software Download Section , at least they make basic work stable.

Re: DX79SR Board not detecting EVGA GTX 680 Classified GPU on first ever boot!

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:29:35 GMT

Ask EVGA support about Video BIOS with PCI Express Gen3 (3.0 bus version) disabled. Early stepping's of Core i7 CPUs had erratic PCIE-3.0 support, and new EVGA BIOSes tend to initialize Gen3 first.

Re: Intel ME 8 Management Engine

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:25:22 GMT

Management Engine is a MB part, which support corporate PC management infrastructure, like remote WakeUp or remote mass BIOS updating/CMOS settings propagation. In some notebooks this component also support user-level anti-theft lockdown protection, but for home desktop user this driver is just an exclamation mark remover (and a potential security hole, if someone took hands on this bunch of drivers and services with kernel-mode privileges)

Re: INTEL DX79TO & DX79SI - GEFORCE GTX 670 INCOMPATIBILITY - ERROR 51

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:23:05 GMT

The link given by dave_g is the answer, but in reverse: new EVGA GTX 600 series cards have UEFI GOP-compatible BIOS, the DX79 boards BIOS do not support SecureBoot and GOP instead. So wait until Intel bring SecureBoot support for DX79 BIOS, until that use cards from other vendors.

Re: DX79SR Problems with Bluetooth & Desktop Utilities

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:50:26 GMT

If you use WiFi/BT adapter from boxed edition of MB, you should not need to install special drivers in Windows 8, device work with OS included drivers as Generic Bluetooth Adapter.

Desktop Utilities may conflict with Renesas USB 3.0 drivers, again, in Windows 8 there is no need for their driver installation.

Re: DP45SG supports 3TB HDD ?

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:57:25 GMT

Is there a way to update the SATA-RAID-ROM only?

Generally yes, but on Intel MB this may be quite difficult task. First, you must somewhere get unpacker for BIOS for newer MB, unpack BIOS, find SATA RAID Option ROM, again somewhere get unpacker for your MB BIOS, unpack BIOS, replace RAID Option ROM in it, somewhere get packer and then have a try to flash edited BIOS into MB...with great chance to face with dead MB. Or just find that new Option ROM is bigger than old and final BIOS doesn`t fit into FWH chip on old MB.

Is there a way to prevent the HDD to be accessed in SafeMode (automatically) ?

Easiest way is to encrypt it, with tools like True Crypt or DiskCryptor, or even Windows BitLocker. Until you run tool and enter the password, disk is considered RAW (no filesystem present), so Windows will leave it intact.

Re: DP45SG supports 3TB HDD ?

webadmin@intel.com — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:26:48 GMT

The trouble is in SATA RAID ROM in your MB BIOS. Support for greater than 2 Tb HDDs was added in ROM version started from 10.0 (like v10.6.0.1091). DP45SG latest BIOS include only 8.6.0.1007 - thus only 7xx MB seen in RAID BIOS. Because Intel MB support for this board ended, there will be no more BIOS updates. Windows RST driver probably solve this trouble if you will use that HDD as non-bootable, but access to disk from Live CDs or Windows Safe Mode, or with direct HDD access tools may ruin the data.

Re: Motherboard VR & CPU LED issue

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:05:59 GMT

The possible reason may be incorrectly installed memory, for example, do not fully plugged in memory module. Otherwise, try to clear CMOS settings (by jumper on MB or by pulling of MB battery for a minute).

Re: DH77DF BIOS Video Optimization prevents booting w/ RAID

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:54:56 GMT

It`s by design: Video Optimization skips legacy VGA BIOS initialization, and RAID BIOSes require VGA functions for their video output. This even mentioned in option description in left on new MB`s. Wait until Intel integrate RAID setup into EFI. Same true for PXE network boot, add-on RAID cards and so on.

Re: DX79SR Fails Post at Video Init

webadmin@intel.com — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 08:14:25 GMT

Did you enable any of Fast Boot optimizations in MB BIOS? Also, the reason may be that your 660 Ti`s have a new UEFI-compatible VBIOS (GOP), and DX79 boards do not fully support it, so there are a delay before system find a legacy VGA BIOS.