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so I've got some sandforce 3 drives or san Force 3 San Force 2281 drives that

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are going to need their firmwares updated I've got a Kronos deluxe from mushkin I've also got a couple of

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wildfires the other Wildfire is plugged into a SATA cable hanging off the back

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of this machine and uh so basically I want to switch from having two test

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benches to three test benches so I'll have instead of an AMD and Intel I want

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to have a 2011 and 1150 5 and an am3 plus so that I can easily and quickly

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compare anything on any of the major platforms without swapping CPU coolers

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etc etc etc so um now that they finally

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fixed the stability issues that people were having with some blue screens and

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whatnot with uh the sound Force SATA 3 drives I'm going to go ahead I'm going

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to update these three drives and then I'm going to uh well get my test benches

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set up so I figured I might as well do a video about how to update the firmware

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on your SST so in this case I downloaded The Patriot the updator so I obviously

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got that one off the Patriot website you want to run it as an administrator if

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you're using Windows 7 or Windows Vista it scans for drives you go ahead you

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select your drive you update the firmware this all comes in in a single

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pack so it comes with the firmware as

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well as the release notes and the updater so you just click open Automatic

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restart may occur after this operation etc etc etc so there's a few other

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things that you have to factor in um I tried this on an AMD chipset this is a

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modern AMD chipset 99 nfx board and this

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errored out after about half a second so

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what I had to do was I tried switching to HCI mode that didn't help uh so I

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moved it over to an Intel board this is a p-55 board and now it's working with

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no issue so only certain chipsets are going to be able to update the firmwares

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correctly you do want to be in ahci mode

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so that is a factor as well

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and other than that I can't really think of anything oh look at that it's

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complete already hey here's something interesting why don't we find out

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together if I can update a mushin Kronos

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using the Patriot utility and the Patriot firmware because they are using

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the same flash these are all toggle chip drives with 2281 controller so as far as

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the actual Hardware is concerned they are basically identical so let's see if

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the mushen drive will allow me

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to update it I might have to grab the

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rescan for drives I might have to grab

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the updater from the mushin site

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instead scanning for drives please

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wait oh look at this okay update firmware

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okay okay huh look at that oh no it

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didn't work yeah okay yep so it's saying you

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know basically no you're not allowed to do that okay well either way my Patriot

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ones are updated and I will update the muskin one after and I think I've

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covered pretty much everything I wanted to say so thank you for checking out my

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little video on how to update the firmware of your SATA 3 sandforce SSD

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drive don't forget to subscribe T tchp from unboxings reviews tutorials and

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completely random videos too sometimes but not this one this was a tutorial in

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case you didn't notice