so I've got some sandforce 3 drives or san Force 3 San Force 2281 drives that
are going to need their firmwares updated I've got a Kronos deluxe from mushkin I've also got a couple of
wildfires the other Wildfire is plugged into a SATA cable hanging off the back
of this machine and uh so basically I want to switch from having two test
benches to three test benches so I'll have instead of an AMD and Intel I want
to have a 2011 and 1150 5 and an am3 plus so that I can easily and quickly
compare anything on any of the major platforms without swapping CPU coolers
etc etc etc so um now that they finally
fixed the stability issues that people were having with some blue screens and
whatnot with uh the sound Force SATA 3 drives I'm going to go ahead I'm going
to update these three drives and then I'm going to uh well get my test benches
set up so I figured I might as well do a video about how to update the firmware
on your SST so in this case I downloaded The Patriot the updator so I obviously
got that one off the Patriot website you want to run it as an administrator if
you're using Windows 7 or Windows Vista it scans for drives you go ahead you
select your drive you update the firmware this all comes in in a single
pack so it comes with the firmware as
well as the release notes and the updater so you just click open Automatic
restart may occur after this operation etc etc etc so there's a few other
things that you have to factor in um I tried this on an AMD chipset this is a
modern AMD chipset 99 nfx board and this
errored out after about half a second so
what I had to do was I tried switching to HCI mode that didn't help uh so I
moved it over to an Intel board this is a p-55 board and now it's working with
no issue so only certain chipsets are going to be able to update the firmwares
correctly you do want to be in ahci mode
so that is a factor as well
and other than that I can't really think of anything oh look at that it's
complete already hey here's something interesting why don't we find out
together if I can update a mushin Kronos
using the Patriot utility and the Patriot firmware because they are using
the same flash these are all toggle chip drives with 2281 controller so as far as
the actual Hardware is concerned they are basically identical so let's see if
the mushen drive will allow me
to update it I might have to grab the
rescan for drives I might have to grab
the updater from the mushin site
instead scanning for drives please
wait oh look at this okay update firmware
okay okay huh look at that oh no it
didn't work yeah okay yep so it's saying you
know basically no you're not allowed to do that okay well either way my Patriot
ones are updated and I will update the muskin one after and I think I've
covered pretty much everything I wanted to say so thank you for checking out my
little video on how to update the firmware of your SATA 3 sandforce SSD
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